good day all
defenitely in my opinion the RIJNBORG picture is a great shot and is good quality.
The deletion is nonsense to my thinking. However I have a suggestion, which may have been
made already but I did not see it.
Here it is
When a picture is choosen for deletion why not put it in a special cathegory on the site
(for example, "VOTE, on hold for delete/stand by") and then let the members vote on it.
Once the vote count is in, will say 50 members say it,s a good shot withhin a certain time period and worth to be retained, it will be reposted to the correct cathegory.
I had about 15-20 pictures deleted over time(may be more), thats out of about 8150 posted not bad, one for example, the vessel was already
quite well documented as reason for deletion :the shot was zoomed and slight hazy because of hot weather.
which is not uncommon when one passes with a ship a coastline. My understanding is that it is a "ship-spotting" site !!!!.
another one was just recently ,a dredge working at night in the panama canal widening
project. the reason given: not all details could be seen clearly, ok,,but then all night shots have to be deleted. I am not sure,but I think there are not much night shots of dredges working on the panama canal widening,which surely is a historical event, on this site, but nevertheless it was deleted.(and grudgingly accepted :-) )
However the pictures should have a certain standard and oneself is often not to objective of it,s own shots. But then, does it make sense to have on this site some containerships (CSAV Santos for example, which I sailed twice as Capt 2004 and 2008) for 187th time steaming up and down the schelde/maas/elbe ?
For the purpose of pure spotting it would be fine but for a site where one can go and research/look/enjoy ships it does not make really sense to see the same vessel for the "umteenth" time from the stb side steaming down a river.
just some thoughts
rgds
to all and a happy and healthy 2011
capt ted