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bear495 Joined: May 03 Points: 8634 Posts: 177 Posted: 2005-05-12 17:03:00    The picture that I am now seeing, entitled Banak Pass was posted by Mrashid44. With the writing on it, this appears to be nothing more than a post card. My questions are: 1. Is this a postcard that has been scanned, or is it a photograph taken by the member? 2. Even if this is a photo, doesn't the script on the card lessen the value of the points that should be awarded? (As we all discussed elsewhere) 3. If this is a postcard, should it remain on the site. Russ --- "Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." Alexander Solzhenitsyn Reply    Reply with quote    Contact bear495   britman Premium account Joined: Apr 04 Points: 17984 Posts: 83 Posted: 2005-05-12 18:07:00    Hi Russ, I have looked at this upload and to be truthfull it does arouse suspicion. I know that we can all add lettering to pictures with Adope Photoshop and other such software! Perhaps Andy can throw some light on this particular upload and give his opinion - by accepting or rejecting it! Cheers, Brit --- Cheers! Reply    Reply with quote    Contact britman   bear495 Joined: May 03 Points: 8634 Posts: 177 Posted: 2005-05-12 18:52:00    True, but for me, one of the telling aspects is that other photos (some even nicer) from the same person have no printing on them. In fact, only one other photo from this member has a photo. For me, that opens my curiosity. Russ --- "Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." Alexander Solzhenitsyn Reply    Reply with quote    Contact bear495   mortimer Premium account Joined: Jun 04 Points: 15075 Posts: 528 Posted: 2005-05-13 12:20:00    Hi Russ it sure has a watermark on it that says "pakistan picture gallery".... anyway I just don't know what the intention of the pic is. I think that when the poster wants to share a great picture of a special place he could do it, when the intention is winning the pom contest or just get high ratings in general... well then it's unfairness just some thoughts martin --- Today is the first day of the rest of your life, enjoy it! Reply    Reply with quote    Contact mortimer   britman Premium account Joined: Apr 04 Points: 17984 Posts: 83 Posted: 2005-05-13 12:51:00    Sorry, I appeared unintentionally to have started a new topic on Russ' point - I repeat my reply to Martin's addition on this string Sorry Brit Posted: 2005-05-13 12:49:00 A simple legal point. Any member downloading a postcard is publishing the work of another, not himself. There is a copyright issue here. We all agreed with GLOBOsapiens Gmb that we would not breach copyright by publishing anything other than our own work. If in doubt GLOBO should throw out any dubious uploads unless the member can prove that it is his own work! --- Cheers! --- Cheers! Reply    Reply with quote    Contact britman   bear495 Joined: May 03 Points: 8634 Posts: 177 Posted: 2005-05-13 15:01:00    My main reason for bringing this up was two-fold. SOmewhere in the fora (is this the plural of forum?), a new member wrote something about not having any photos and asked if it were okay to post some wonderful postcards that he had. Andy replied pretty bluntly with an "absolutely not!" Elsewhere, when we spent almost three weeks discussing the rating guidelines for photos, it was generally agreed that the writings on photos (using Adobe, or other software) generally took away from the photo, thereby lessening there point value. Therefore, I was shocked to see the mentioned photo with a rating of 4.66 when I first saw it. Russ --- "Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." Alexander Solzhenitsyn Reply    Reply with quote    Contact bear495   andreas Joined: May 02 Points: 8313 Posts: 809 Posted: 2005-05-14 14:03:00    Hi Russ, could you please post a link to that particular picture. I could just find a picture of Banak Pass with text on it that seemed to be posted with an image software. Best regards, Andy Reply    Reply with quote    Contact andreas   bear495 Joined: May 03 Points: 8634 Posts: 177 Posted: 2005-05-14 14:36:00    Thank to all of you. Here is a link to the mentioned photo: http://www.globosapiens.net/mrashid44/picture-banak-pass-4550.html Andy, this photo just looks too suspicious. The printing looks more like something on a postcard, instead of from Abobe, or some other processor. That, plus the fact that other photos from the same member do not have titles and text. Then, as Brit mentions, there seems to be a watermark on the photo. This may be a legitimate submission, but there certainly is something that several of us have noticed that has aroused questions. Russ --- "Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." Alexander Solzhenitsyn Reply    Reply with quote    Contact bear495   mrashid44 Joined: Jul 03 Points: 310 Posts: 1 Posted: 2005-05-16 00:15:00    Sorry from all of you.This picture was (Because now it is deleeted by me) in the ownership of my organization. That was not my personnel picture. It was not uploaded with any wrong intent. Because it was uploaded when there was no such contest. I uploaded it because I want to share with u people that there is so much beautiful places in my country. Although I have my own picture there but not with so much quality..... Once again sorry for, if someone got hurt due to this:( Bye Rashid Mukhtar --- Rashid Reply    Reply with quote    Contact mrashid44   rangutan Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 34752 Posts: 1044 Posted: 2005-06-09 15:57:00    Another Postcard? Great pic except for the all the text. www.globosapiens.net/dipaks/picture-nagaokot-21228.html --- Rudolf "Rangutan" Graspointner Reply    Reply with quote    Contact rangutan   Page: 1 2