User talk:Parkerdr

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Photos

Thanks for the photos. They are great. Appreciate them, they are essestial. The Southfield Town Center photographs well, here is another angle,[1] would like to see an inside atrium photo also. Did you say the American Center is not gold? It is very golden, the emporis photo also shows this very well. Did they change the glass recently? One of the noteworthy points of Southfield is its golden appearance. The building articles still need many photos Hyatt Regency in Dearborn, The Henry Ford, etc.Thomas Paine1776 21:44, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

About the American Center - it looks like green glass to me, but it is very reflective. With the sun at a low angle, a photograph from the sunny side would be "golden", but not like the golden reflective surfaces on the town center. I did try to photograph one of the local mall entrances, and was informed that it was private property, and the owners disallow photographs. oh well. Parkerdr 04:15, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Great photos of the Town Center, Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn buildings, Michigan Capitol, etc. Thanks for working on the 'magic photo' of the Town Center. We still don't have photos of the Belle Isle Fountain, the bridge, gardens, the marble light house, the Edsel Ford House, and Henry Ford Hospital. And we could use a good photo of the Cadillac Place, another difficult one to capture the size. Those aerial angles probably come from a floor on the Fisher Building. Thomas Paine1776 (talk) 02:09, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

By the way, you are an excellent photographer. I'm keeping watch on your commons page. Southfield has a gold domed St. John's Armenian Church (22001 Northwestern HWY) that is exquisite, and the former Duns Scotus (Now Word of Faith) at Nine Mile and Evergreen. Would like to have photos metro hospitals and medical schools for the articles. Medical is a strong suit for the regional economy. Two excellent aerial photography websites are Michigan oriented. If you haven't already seen them take a look at aerialpics.com [2] and photography-plus.com [3]. Thomas Paine1776 (talk) 23:24, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

The Chauncey Hurlbut Memorial Gate at Waterworks Park [4] is another major monument for which we have no photo. You probably saw this article Detroit's top ten interiors [5]. Do enjoy my trips to Metro Detroit and Michigan. Amazed by the improvements lately, hope the pace continues. Its bound to get the national attention eventually. Thomas Paine1776 (talk) 21:49, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Photo technique

Can you do this type of montage like London with multiple Detroit photos? Thomas Paine1776 (talk) 00:59, 13 March 2008 (UTC):

London.

It looks Picasa (the best tool I have right now) can do that. I see are also asking Mike too.

I just tried it, and there isn't much control over what goes where...Parkerdr (talk) 01:07, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch for the excellent demonstration using a table to make a montage.Thomas Paine1776 (talk) 00:12, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to fill in the many missing photos, user:Mikerussell asked for a list of photos which I posted on his talk page as well, like the James Scott fountain on Belle Isle, Chauncey Hurlbut Memorial gate on Jefferson, Bishop Gallaher Residence, etc. Note the NRHP for Wayne County [6], there are several pages to advance through at the bottom of the link.Thomas Paine1776 (talk) 01:50, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

New photo commons

There are new photo commons at the bottom the architecture article to place extra pictures since we have so many good photos.Thomas Paine1776 (talk) 20:37, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

I see that. I haven't been adding pics to the "major" articles (you have been doing a good job at that), but I will add ones to the commons gallery pages, when I get some more. Parkerdr (talk) 22:06, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Paul Petrino

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thanks for checking in.

My recent computer ailments will take up a whole chapter in my autobiography, but now that I am back with a functioning computer and on line I discover that my link to PhotoSig (I DO care) no longer works and I have no clue what my password might have been. Most of my recent photo efforts are directed to flickr ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/60188803@N00/) where my Dixon Diary is a different sort of event than PhotoSig was. Same stuff, perhaps, just more of it. Anyway, thanks for checking in and I shall get into PS, one way or another. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 21:54, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

A part of my history as a photographer here is that I've discovered that the USA does not allow freedom of panorama - meaning that you can't use pictures of copyrighted sculpture produced after 1923 - and have had dozens, many dozens of pictures removed in the process. It is part of where my sometimes bad attitude here comes from. My bad attitude at PhotoSig is about other things, such as my seemingly huge collection of Thumbs Down Pictures and my bad attitude at flickr is just because, in general I'm a Rock & Roll, Bad Attitude sort of a guy. But life is good, anyway. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 13:40, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

I am for sure a lo-tech photographer. I have a funky old scanner with which I scan old pictures and slides that interest me. When my digital camera (given to me be a friend in exchange for driving her car to Cleveland - long story ) got broken, another friend, this one a flicker friend whom I'd never met, gave me the one I now use. In any case I am pretty much a documentary rather than "fine art" shooter and that's definitely not the state of being at PhotoSig. Which is fine, we are known by the company we keep. But I appreciate any viewing of that stuff that you might do and assume that you will be honest in your thumbing. Life is supposed to be interesting. Carptrash (talk) 15:39, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Michigan Wikipedians!

Greetings Parkerdr! I noticed that you made mention of the University of Michigan on your userpage. If you are a current undergraduate or graduate student there, I would like to welcome you, on behalf of the Wikipedians of the University of Michigan, to a group meeting on Wednesday October 20, 2010. The meeting will be held at 7:00 PM (EST) in the University of Michigan Chemistry Building, room 1201. New and experienced editors alike are most welcome to come and partake in the collaboration and outreach of Wikipedia in a real-life setting. Questions? Leave me a message here or at my talk page on Wikimedia Outreach, and feel free to email the group at wikipedians@umich.edu. The Wikipedians of the University of Michigan are excited to see you there! Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 21:53, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Michigan Wikipedians

Greetings Parkerdr! I noticed that you made mention of the University of Michigan or Ann Arbor on your userpage. If you are a current student, faculty, or other affiliate at the University of Michigan, I would like to welcome you, on behalf of the Michigan Wikipedians, to our next weekly meeting on Monday September 30 (and every Monday thereafter). The meetings are held at 8:00 PM (EDT) in the University of Michigan Shapiro Library, room 4041. New and experienced editors alike are most welcome. Do not hesitate to leave me a message if you have any questions, and feel free to stop by the MWiki talk page. The Michigan Wikipedians are excited to meet you! Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 00:51, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Photo requests

Hi! Do you do photo requests in the Detroit area? WhisperToMe (talk) 04:32, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

I don't get out too much, and I thought that most of the Detroit area was already covered. Is there something in particular you are looking for? Parkerdr (talk) 01:21, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

I'm looking for photos all over the area, but if there's a particular region you are interested in I can list them.

For example in the Hamtramck/Highland Park area I'm looking for several photos in Highland Park, and Davison Elementary School (in Detroit)

In southwest Oakland County I'm looking for photos in Novi and Farmington Hills

WhisperToMe (talk) 14:09, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

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