Just an idea for an image database, any thoughts?

[Arbor]

.Pictures would probably only be allowed by first submission if you were a UPA member first.
6littlechickens,if you and I both had quality pictures of say an Charcoal B/S male and submitted them for this UPA photo database,since I'm not a UPA member my photos would be put at the bottom of a list or pile chosen last.I know some UPA members that wouldn't allow otherwise.There is much less prejudice here and not as many egos to bruise.

I know I'm taking this out of context a little, but this brings a good point even for the database here. Perhaps we should have votes on which photo gets picked for each one required? I know its going to be a lot of voting, but it would make it more fair, and then we don't get people fighting over who's got on the site cause it was first or someone involved in the site's organization got picked because its their site. If we got 10 pics for a male indian blue fanning, that's too many to really have, 1 pic fanning is good, and a fair way to decide which is picked would be a vote, no?

 

[frenchblackcopper]

If there is 5 IB Male pics,maybe use all 5? Maybe just set a limit? I have several same color=pattern hens here that do not look alike so it may be more helpful to have pics of several birds all the same color for comparisons?Basically an IB is an IB,they all look alike,same as Whites but birds that have varying degrees of train color-w/e such as BSSP or pieds,, several pics should be included so anyone looking that may be new into peafowl can see some colors and patterns vary tremendously.

 

[new 2 pfowl]

I agree with fbc, more examples would offer more opportunities for identification/comparison.
For an example, I just added pictures to the IB page; you'll see that a lot of small pictures can easily be included that can be viewed larger.

By the way, all of the pictures I'm putting in there are just for experimentation, I wouldn't expect them to appear in any final version of an image database!

 

[MinxFox]

I have some photos of my pied peacock that used to be alive. He was very pretty if you want to use some of his photos. I have close up photos, display photos, full body photos, etc. I also have photos of my pied peahen.

 

[Arbor]

I agree with fbc, more examples would offer more opportunities for identification/comparison.
For an example, I just added pictures to the IB page; you'll see that a lot of small pictures can easily be included that can be viewed larger.

By the way, all of the pictures I'm putting in there are just for experimentation, I wouldn't expect them to appear in any final version of an image database!

Sorry, I think we missed the point of my last post, a number of photos will be needed, but who decides which/whose photos are used? The common colours you may get 40+ photos of just a male - more than needed for identifying a male of any particular colour. Silver pied, pied white eyed and pied birds may need more, but a statement should be made on those pages that the patterns do vary considerably as to the location of the colouring as well, and that one bird will not look exactly like another.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

I have brought an idea forward to Arbor on an idea I would like to move forward on how to increase the value in peafowl.It is unique,it is proven,and it works.Kinda like a "value added product" like we all see when going grocery shopping.Take a simple,low cost way to improve and target a certain market,thus increasing it's value.I have other ideas on the image database that would make it unique as well.
We are all here for learning-sharing ideas and to help each other.And when I see a unique-easy way to help everyone cope with higher feed,higher building costs it's worth sharing.I don't want to hijack the thread here,but anyone interested in this concept please send me a pm.
I may have found another avenue for a image database that I will investigate more later this weekend after I do some more Palace construction.
I know we all have at one time or another had a difficult time in trying to see examples of diffrent colored peachicks we may hatch with no place to see comparable birds we want to identify.By close up pictures taken of distinct areas on peafowl any viewable example will help.Someone has to step up to the plate and BYC'ers are just as capable of knowledge-photosharing-photo taking as anyone else.This area of BYC probably gets the most image uploads because of the unique beauty peafowl has naturally.This is what got me initially hooked on trying to hatch and raise some,plus I had a nice new incubator that was sitting empty.
Send me a PM if your interested in promoting your peafowl thru a provable-verifiable method to increase their value.Some may see it's value,others it may not be useful to.I will explian it to you,then you decide.All it takes is a PM to me.We can initiate this starting in the spring of 2013 hatched birds if we begin now.

 

[Joe.G]

THis is a great idea, Do you still plan to move forward with this?

 

[Trefoil]

I'm with Joe. Also wanted to suggest, if the site has unlimited storage, why not vote,pick or whatever the prettiest picture of the color,pattern,ect and then make it clickable to a gallery of pictures of that color? That would keep the site tidy and also give multiple representations of the different patterns,ect. Also, it would be nice to have a written description in the click and sided x side pictures to compare some of the easily confusable colors. Now I'm going back to find the post with the link so I can check it out. Being computer illiterate and not a photographer, if there is anything outside those venues I can do to help, feel free to contact me.

 

[Trefoil]

Okay, so this is a stupid question, but how does one submit photos to the site? And is there any way that the categories with pictures could be in bold or otherwise identified? Lets get this done

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Here's the link:
http://peafowlimagedatabase.weebly.com/index.html
Arbor has been working on it a bit, but I'm sorry to say I really have neglected it (of course, I only have IB pictures to share).
Welcoming any suggestions and image contributions!
Did you ever come up with another database avenue, fbc?

*edited to respond:
No, that isn't a stupid question at all. In fact it is one we haven't really considered.
Probably the easiest approach would be if you email the pictures to me, and I post them.
I think watermarked pictures are the best way to go, since there seems to be a lot of image theft on the web.
If you'd like to contribute some images, why don't you PM me?
Arbor, do you have any thoughts on this?