The Dolomites

[ranunculus]

Many thanks Paddy, Luit and Kathrine,
Your mention of the images being 'too large' is very interesting Kathrine....I am actually posting everything via my laptop at present (due to all the USB ports not functioning on my desktop - will have to try the 'Moan, Moan , Moan' posting later....and it isn't a driver problem.... I think it is a hardware failure) and the images (which are saved at 800 x 600 (or as near as possible) show up perfectly adequately (with lots of room to spare) on my laptop screen (diagonal measurement of 17 inches), even allowing for the avatar column and the fact that the SRGC window leaves a one inch 'gutter' down either side of my screen that I can expand the window into.  (Apologies if this seems like gibberish but it is difficult to explain if your computer is set up to a different viewing ratio)?

The thumbnails expand to the size I have quoted and their is STILL quite a considerable gap to the right of the image.  May I ask Paddy, Luit and others for their comments....I will have to post the Cypripedium gallery and the other Dolomite shots at this size as they have all been prepared but, if necessary, I will take your problems into account in the future should the majority be experiencing the same problems?

It 'may' just require an amendment to your settings Kathrine.....is there an expert out there please?

Glad you liked the shots anyway....really enjoyed your colourful comment Luit.

[David Nicholson]

Cliff, thumbs are showing as per normal and once clicked are showing at the size I would expect with bags of spare space around my screen. Maybe it is Kata's screen settings at fault?

[ranunculus]

Many thanks David....that is very reassuring.  Do you have a larger screen than Kathrine (19 inches...presumably measured diagonally)?

[David Nicholson]

Many thanks David....that is very reassuring.  Do you have a larger screen than Kathrine (19 inches...presumably measured diagonally)?

Cliff, mine is 17" (screen I mean )

[Maggi Young]

Cliff, I'm having to scroll on the laptop, screen approx 17 or 18 ins (circa 45cms) diagonally, if that's any help.

[Diane Clement]

It 'may' just require an amendment to your settings Kathrine.....is there an expert out there please?

Not an expert but  ...
The issue is not the physical size of the screen, it's the resolution it's set at.  Some people set their resolution to 1024 x 768 and some set theirs to 800 x 600 pixels (and there are other settings out there).  In the latter case, if the picture is more than 800 pixels wide (and Cliff many of yours are) they will need scrolling horizontally to see all the picture.  It would be more accessible to more people if pictures were set to less than 800 pixels wide.  I spend a lot of my day changing computer settings for students with visual and physical disabilities, and often change the resolution on their machines down to 800 to 600 as the picture is "bigger" - visibility is better (although the downside is that it reduces some of the detail). 
To change your resolution, right click on your desktop and go to properties, then settings.  Move the slider to the left to decrease resolution (increase visibility but decrease detail) and vice versa.  Many laptops only have two settings but PCs often have more 
Diane

[Paddy Tobin]

Cliff,

I'm viewing on a laptop without any difficulty, though in many of the last  postings the flowers have appeared very blue.

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

though in many of the last  postings the flowers have appeared very blue

Paddy, you slay me, you really do! How do you type that with a straight face?

[Lvandelft]

Cliff, with me the pictures are perfect, I have a 19" screen, however with a few ones it seems on the rigt side
98%. But overall it is very good!

I'm viewing on a laptop without any difficulty, though in many of the last  postings the flowers have appeared very blue.

Paddy, were you awaiting Eritrichium are pink? I believe they are called Silene........  

[Paddy Tobin]

Well, Luit, a little variety in life is good. All that blue could be seen as depressing.

Paddy

[Thomas Huber]

Which resolution do you have on your screen, Kathrine?
Mine works fine with 1280 x 960!

[ranunculus]

Many thanks everybody!

Diane, your comments explain the situation very precisely.....in other words we all have the potential (should we wish to make the necessary changes to our individual set-ups) to view the images as they are intended to be seen (it is simply a matter of amending the resolution of our screens)?
To be honest I have always assumed that because I save all my images for SRGC to a standard 800 x 600 that this would be the actual size of the image presented on the screen (I must admit I have never even checked after all those postings), but I now discover that the image is often up to 20 pixels larger when posted.  After due consideration (and a Cadbury's Flake), I realise that the frames that surround the images must add a number of pixels as they are always added after the resizing operation.

Adored your comments re: the 'blues' Paddy.....Chic Murray would have been SO proud of that one!  (Sorry Luit....I'm doing it again....Chic was one of the great comics ....try You Tube again sir).
Will post the Lady's-slipper images today....but be warned Paddy....there will be a glut of yellow and red!!

[ranunculus]

For Luit mainly....but you might all enjoy these.....

Here are just a few examples of Chic's unique material:




It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

I made a stupid mistake last week. Come to think of it, did you ever hear of someone making a clever mistake?

So I gave him a wave. Actually, it was more of a half wave, because I only half know him.

What use is happiness? It can't buy you money.

I met this cowboy with a brown paper hat, paper waistcoat and paper trousers. He was wanted for rustling.

If something's neither here nor there, where the hell is it?

My father was a simple man. My mother was a simple woman. You see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.

I had a tragic childhood. My parents never understood me. They were Japanese.

I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.

If it weren't for marriage, husband and wives would have to fight with strangers.

After I told my wife that black underwear turned me on, she didn't wash my Y-fronts for a month.

Kippers- fish that like a lot of sleep.

The boat was so old; it must have been launched when Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his shoulder.

It was a pretty posh place. They were so used to fur coats that two bears strolled in and ordered lunch and nobody even noticed.

I felt as out of place as a left-handed violinist in a crowded string section.

Get into yourself to get yourself out of your self. Then try to lose yourself.

I drew a gun. He drew a gun. I drew another gun. Soon we were surrounded by lovely drawings of guns.

We've got stained glass windows in our house. It's those damned pigeons.

You know what they say about stamp collecting. Philately will get you nowhere.

There's a new slimming course just out where they remove all your bones. Not only do you weigh less, but you also look so much more relaxed.

The police stopped me when I was out in my car. They told me it was a spot check. I admitted to two pimples and a boil.

I first met my wife in the tunnel of love. She was digging it at the time.

I dreamt I was forced to eat 25lbs of marshmallows. When I woke up, my pillow was missing.

My girlfriends a redhead, no hair, just a red head.

I admit to spending a fortune on women, booze and gambling. The rest I spend foolishly.

A neighbour put his budgerigar in the mincing machine and invented shredded tweet.

My parents were wonderful, always there with a ready compromise. My sister wanted a cat for a pet I wanted a dog, so they bought a cat and taught it to bark.

I got up this morning. I like to get up in the morning; it gives me the rest of the day to myself. I crossed the landing and went down stairs. Mind you, if there had been no stairs, I wouldn't even have attempted it.

We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements. It was all the wolf could do to keep us away from his door. A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches- two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them. There were so many holes in my socks I could put them on seventeen different ways.

She had been married so often she bought a drip-dry wedding dress.

My mother was so house proud that when my father got up to sleepwalk she had the bed made by the time he got back.

This friend of mine had a terrible upbringing. When his mother lifted him up to feed him, his father rented the pram out. Then when they came into money later, his mother hired a woman to push the pram - and he's been pushed for money ever since.

I went to the butchers to buy a leg of lamb. "Is it Scotch?", I asked. "Why?" the butcher said in reply. Are you going to talk to it or eat it?". "In that case, have you got any wild duck?". "No", he responded, "but I've got one I could aggravate for you".

I rang the bell of this small bed-and breakfast place, whereupon a lady appeared at an outside window. "What do you want?", she asked. "I want to stay here", I replied. "Well, stay there then", she said and closed the window.

A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.

I was in London the other day and this man came up to me and asked me if I knew the Battersea dog's home. I said that I didn't know it had been away.

There are two rules for drinking whisky. First, never take whisky without water, and second, never take water without whisky.

My wife went to a beauty parlour and got a mudpack. For two days she looked nice, then the mud fell off.

I don't swim. I can swim. I just don't have much cause to do so in the normal run of things.

So there I was lying in the gutter. A man stopped and asked '"What's the matter? Did you fall over?" So I said "No. I've a bar of toffee in my back pocket and I was just trying to break it."

This chap started talking to me about this and that - about which I know very little.

My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn't wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post dated of course.

It was raining cats and dogs and I fell in a poodle.

I was out walking the other evening. This fellow accosted me, and asked if that was the moon up there in the sky. I replied that I had no idea as I was a stranger there myself.

I was taking my dog out the other day and I met this chap who asked me where I was going. The dog is foaming at the mouth, so I explained that I was on my way to the vet to have it put down. He asked if it was mad, to which I replied that it wasn't exactly pleased about it.

This chap said to me, "If you look over there, you'll see Dumbarton Rock". Well, I looked for 20 minutes and the thing never moved an inch.

I met this chap at the Olympics. I said to him, "Excuse me but are you a pole vaulter?", he replied,"No, I'm German, but how did you know my name was Walter."

I went to the doctor and he told me I only had three minutes to live. I immediately asked if there was anything he could do for me, to which he replied, that he could boil me an egg.

[David Nicholson]

Every one a little gem, good old Chic.

[ranunculus]

It's cyp. time.....thirty images of this wonderful orchid.....