User talk:Rosser1954

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Link Images

I will link images as soon as I find the time. RSLlGriffith 22:53, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

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Please link images

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Image:Gazebo near Stables bridge ECP.JPG

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Image:Apple_tree_blossom.JPG

Regarding the image above, could you please confirm you are the same person as Roger Griffith.

Cheers mate!

Aua (talk) 08:27, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes. That is correct. RSLlGriffith (talk)

Tip: Categorizing images

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• Image:Tappethillock Lane - Barrmill.jpg was uncategorized on 29 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:36, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
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Edit-Sorry....something is clearly wrong with my computer or I must be having a worse day than I thought. I was trying to leave a post at the help talk page.--Amadscientist (talk) 07:30, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Hello Rosser1954

Having looked at your photograph entitled Powgree Railway Bridge.JPG I would ask exactly where is this bridge?. I lived and played around that area as a child and written a book on my escapades there but don't recognise the bridge and as far as I know the Caledonia Railway Line was not near Kersland Glen. There was a railway line from the mine that was upstream from the Tianna Falls which crossed the Powgree Burn via a wooden bridge which no longer exists.

Thanking in in anticipation of an early reply.

Bill.

Hello Bill,

This is at the end of the old railway cutting that runs down from the site of Brackenhills station and crosses the Powgree Burn where the old cutting leading off to Kilbirnie East railway station has been filled in. The line closed in the 30s I think and came off the main line at Giffen - Kilbirnie Junction as it was called. You wrote a book - how can I get a copy?

Roger

Author

I assume that images such as the following are either scans or digital crops of the book(s). In that case you are not the author! Thanks! Duly noted.

• File:Little Cumbrae Castle floorplan.jpg
• File:Little Cumbrae Castle.jpg
• File:Half Glazed Window 17th Century.jpg
• File:Arthur's oven - Gordon 1726.jpg

and plenty more in your gallery. Unless you know better, these should probably be marked "unknown artist" or similar. Thanks for your comments on en.wiki - we all need to learn. It is worth "signing" your Talk page posts with "~~~~" Finavon (talk) 19:28, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Station categories

I have been tidying up the "Railway stations in ..." categories. You will find that all the stations with multiple images now have their own subcategories. If you upload a photo survey for a station without its own category then please create one and move any existing images from its county category into the new one.

Keep up the good work. Geof Sheppard (talk) 07:26, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

John Dunlop

Hi, I am interested in the image of a memorial to John Dunlop Esq you have uploaded to the Susanna Montgomery, Countess of Eglinton and Dundonald, South Ayrshire pages. The description you have given says James Dunlop, but my interpretation is that it reads John Dunlop.

I am wondering if you have any further information regarding this factor (or agent as I understand this to mean)? My specific interest is that my g-g-g-grandfather was a John Dunlop from Scotland born in 1777. If reading memorial correctly (which is very hard to do) it was dedicated in 1836 when Dunlop was 60. This would align with the birth date I have.

Thanks and best regards,

Jeremy

Hello Jeremy, I have left a message on Wikipedia for you. Rosser.

Congratulations!

Congratulations Rosser1954! Your image Image:Apple tree blossom.JPG was the Random Picture of the Day! Go here to see what it looked like. - Presidentman (talk) 22:30, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Category:Hone stone

Hi Rosser1954, self-reflecting categories like this don't make sense. And, please, use plurals like Category:Hone stones for category names - as usual over here. -- Ies (talk) 13:11, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

No idea what Self-reflecting means. The photo links to an article on hone stones - do a Google to find out more. RSLlGriffith (talk) 09:16, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

File:Parkhill House Datestone, Dalry.JPG

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Kerse Bridge house

My grandmother Mrs Kirk managed the Railway inn at the turn of the last century and my father Alexander Kirk spent his boyhood years there. I have a photo of him outside the then 'Kirk's railway Inn' around 1910. He later attended Spier's school and served in France from 1917, graduated in medicine at Glasgow university and spent his professional life in England. I was excited at seeing the photo of the present Kerse bridge house . My photo is in an album but will try and upload it .

Any idea what the house round the corner on the edge of the Dubbs water was built for? Water bailliff for the loch? RSLlGriffith (talk) 20:16, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Barskimming Mill plaque

Hi

My great,great,grandfather William Alexander was the owner of this mill. I have visited the mill a few times but I never found the plaque stone in your photo. Can you remember the position of the plaque on the building.

Cheers Barry

Hello,

The plaque is situated above the large warehouse style entrance at the back of the mill, just after the old resedential flat. An interesting site with a lovely situation. I hope that the old mill gets converted into flats to save it from total ruin. RSLlGriffith (talk) 11:37, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

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Not at all sure what you mean. What further details could you need? Not having a degree in Wiki I do not understand what actions are required - please supply in simple terms the actions you required or delete and I will try again. RSLlGriffith (talk) 21:44, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Location?

Hi Rosser - do you have a location for File:Vinca major Greater Periwinkle.JPG please? Thanks! - MPF (talk) 13:46, 27 July 2012 (UTC) Done RSLlGriffith (talk) 12:27, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! - MPF (talk) 23:14, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

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SEEKING PERMISSION TO USE 3 OF YOUR IMAGES

Dear Roger Griffith (Rosser1954)

We are visual artists and academics who are currently working on a chapter in a book entitled ‘The Photograph and the Album’ (published by MuseumsEtc http://museumsetc.com/blogs/news/7422776-forthcoming-the-photograph-and-the-album). We are also contributing to the editorship of this volume.

Our chapter is examining the role that the internet plays in acting as a 'giant photograph album'. We have taken this principle and have begun to look for images, searching – as many of us do – under our own names, curious to find out what images appear.

The following images came up in relation to one of our surnames:

Miller family of Chapeltoun - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miller_chapeltoun.JPG Victorian Miller’s Sitting Room - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Victorian_Miller%27s_sittingroom.JPG Miller’s House - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hessilhead_Mill_and_Miller%27s_House.JPG

We are interested in using the image in our chapter and want to confirm that you agree that we can do this in line with the statement that appears in Wikimedia Commons which is as follows:

“I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.”

To be clear about our use of the image, it will appear as part of a sequence of images for which we will provide full captions and acknowledgement (in reference to the information which appears on the webpage provided above).

We hope you are willing to give permissionand would appreciate if you would confirm this via this email - r.miller@salford.ac.uk . We would also be very grateful if you could inform us of any other parties from whom we should seek permission in reference to these images, if you are aware of any such parties.

We would appreciate it if you could respond by Friday April 19th 2013.

Thank you for your consideration & please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Very best regards

Rosie Miller & Jonathan Carson r.miller@salford.ac.uk

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And also:

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Yours sincerely, JuTa 19:01, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

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2012 Picture of the Year: A pair of European Bee-eaters in Ariège, France.

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Hall of Caldwell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hall_of_Caldwell_from_Hall_farm_barn.JPG Where exactly is this at? The longitude/latitude, I mean. I'd love to add it to the wikipedia article because it only mentions the British NS coordinates right now and wikipedia doesn't seem to recognize those. --67.171.164.195 23:53, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Try the following = NS414551 or 241459 / 655117 or -4.52841 / 55.7634 RSLlGriffith (talk) 21:12, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Picture of the Year 2013 Results Announcement

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The 2013 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: We shattered participation records this year — more people voted in Picture of the Year 2013 than ever before. In both rounds, 4070 different people voted for their favorite images. Additionally, there were more image candidates (featured pictures) in the contest than ever before (962 images total).

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1. 157 people voted for the winner, an image of a lightbulb with the tungsten filament smoking and burning.
2. In second place, 155 people voted for an image of "Sviati Hory" (Holy Mountains) National Park in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
3. In third place, 131 people voted for an image of a swallow flying and drinking.

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Horse Gin in Use

I cannot find the image Horse Gin in use.jpg in the The Illustrated Exhibitor 1851. Are you sure that is the source?

Identification

Hi Rosser1954!
This fungi is Meripilus giganteus IMO.
With best regards, -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 19:12, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi Rosser1954. I'm not a moss expert, though I'm pretty sure that your picture of Atrichum angustatum is a Polytrichum species.~ Best regards, DrZaad (talk) 08:46, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Photographer's Barnstar
	For the picture of St Michael's Church in Dumfries! Aarp65 (talk) 18:42, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

Andricus grossulariae gall pictures

I'm sorry to tell you that the nice pictures you have labelled Andricus grossulariae are certainly Knopper Galls. I will move them to the Andricus quercuscalicis category and remove them from associated wikipedia articles. In the meantime I will try and find some substitute pictures for grossulariae. As the text of the wikipedia article states, the galls are on the acorn cup, whereas those in your pictures are clearly developing on the acorn. Furthermore this species was not known as far north as Scotland in 2010 (and may not yet have reached Scotland): researchers at Edinburgh University did not have access to local material. Semudobia (talk) 14:11, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

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not Nectria peziza

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nectria_peziza.JPG More likely something from Trichia. see this: http://agrozoo.net/jsp/Galery_one_image.jsp?id_galery_obfuscated=8bf38bf76d3242b5bcbeab51551dabfa — Preceding unsigned comment added by BubikolRamios (talk • contribs) 20:47, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

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