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Thanks for contributing the beautiful pictures. FYI, if you contribute them to the Wikicommons they will be easily usable by Wikipedias in other languages. Cheers, -Will Beback 00:32, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that those are beautiful pictures. In addition to uploading to Commons, it would also be helpful to upload in the highest resolution you are comfortable releasing; for instance, Image:GRANDCANYONCHRISTMAS.JPG is 1,025 × 768 pixels, yet the metadata is from an image that is 9,422 × 7,067 pixels. As per Commons:Commons:First steps/Quality and description#Images, "As of October 19th, 2005 the MediaWiki software can’t handle PNGs larger than exactly 12,500,000 pixels (12,500.000 kilopixels, 12.500000 megapixels, 12,207.031 kibipixels, or 11.920929 mebipixels)—3535×3536 pixels square, 4082×3061 pixels in the 4:3 ratio, or 4497×2779 pixels in the golden ratio—but otherwise images in such high resolutions are fine." Tarawneh wrote "Upper limit for file sizes is 20 MB" in this edit. — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 19:04, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Doug, the picture of the Sierra from Lone Pine is spectacular -- Many thanks! ClaudeMuncey 14:32, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks guys, but regarding the size, if you give you a dollar and you ask me for a hundred dollars, what does that make you?

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Thanks...

...For sharing your images. I just want to let you know it's appreciated. J Milburn (talk) 00:51, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank You

Your photograph of the Superstition Mountains is beautiful. I used it, with attribution, for a story about the tragic Thanksgiving Day plane crash near Apache Junction, Arizona. Here's the link.

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I saw that you uploaded many more great images - some were already uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Please - if you are the real copyright holder - please send a permission for all images uploaded by you. For further instructions, see Wikipedia:Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries - otherwise I will tag all images. mabdul 21:53, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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