An open invitation.

From: ExoticRainforest <Steve at ExoticRainforest.com> on 2009.11.12 at 21:20:12(20269) Janice and I would like to extend anopen invitation to anyone on this forum to visit our Exotic Rainforestatrium. We're blessed to have been able to grow so many interestingplants and have many of them perform just as they would in the wild. We have had as many as 60 visitors in a single day but the average islikely five to eight people per week. I'd really love to get some of our botanists in the atrium so we canfigure out what some of my "untagged" specimens might be. Lots offolks have been great about sending plants and I've been able toacquire a fairly large number from South America that I know don't havethe correct ID tags. Even if you're just new to plants please visit usif you plan to be near northwest Arkansas. The first photo showsthe south walkway which leads around to the park bench where we sit toenjoy the pond. Thesecond is what we see as we walk out the kitchen door. The third is the view of the pond withthe waterfall at the end if you are sitting on our park bench whichisn't visible in any of these photos, and the final is a wide angleview of the atrium from the south door. As youcan see, there is a fairly long epiphytic log hanging over the walkwaythat has at least 70 or 80 plants growing on it as th There are more than 50 fairly large aroids hanging from the ceiling inteak orchid baskets and nearly 40 feet of "bench" around three wallsholding smaller plants in pots. We think you'll find plenty to see sofeel free to come anytime you're in the area. You can find my cellphone number atthe bottom of the homepage to our website and all we ask is you give ussome notice before you come. Please accept the invite! Steve HTML +More www.ExoticRainforest.com PS: if you have a slow internet connection I apologize for all thephotos! --------------050109050908000904010008

From: "Marek Argent" <abri1973 at wp.pl> on 2009.11.15 at 03:43:44(20277) Steve, You own a dreamland of every aroid enthusiast! Anyway I must tell you it again - about your photos. The GIF format reduces colors to 256 (look at the Philo leaves in the photo "atrium combined"), the colors are not natural and the file takes more than 400 kB of memory. If you used the JPG format, the file size would be smaller and in full colour. Marek HTML +More ----- Original Message ----- From: ExoticRainforest To: Discussion of aroids ; exoticrainforest-tropical-plant-discussion-group@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:20 PM Subject: [Aroid-l] An open invitation. Janice and I would like to extend an open invitation to anyone on this forum to visit our Exotic Rainforest atrium. We're blessed to have been able to grow so many interesting plants and have many of them perform just as they would in the wild. We have had as many as 60 visitors in a single day but the average is likely five to eight people per week. I'd really love to get some of our botanists in the atrium so we can figure out what some of my "untagged" specimens might be. Lots of folks have been great about sending plants and I've been able to acquire a fairly large number from South America that I know don't have the correct ID tags. Even if you're just new to plants please visit us if you plan to be near northwest Arkansas. The first photo shows the south walkway which leads around to the park bench where we sit to enjoy the pond. The second is what we see as we walk out the kitchen door. The third is the view of the pond with the waterfall at the end if you are sitting on our park bench which isn't visible in any of these photos, and the final is a wide angle view of the atrium from the south door. As you can see, there is a fairly long epiphytic log hanging over the walkway that has at least 70 or 80 plants growing on it as th There are more than 50 fairly large aroids hanging from the ceiling in teak orchid baskets and nearly 40 feet of "bench" around three walls holding smaller plants in pots. We think you'll find plenty to see so feel free to come anytime you're in the area. You can find my cell phone number at the bottom of the homepage to our website and all we ask is you give us some notice before you come. Please accept the invite! Steve www.ExoticRainforest.com PS: if you have a slow internet connection I apologize for all the photos! _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l Nie znaleziono virusa w tej wiadomosci przychodzacej. Sprawdzone przez AVG - www.avg.com Wersja: 8.5.425 / Baza danych wirusów: 270.14.64/2501 - Data wydania: 11/13/09 18:22:00 ------=_NextPart_000_0112_01CA65AE.36302440----==============206649105304548777=

From: ExoticRainforest <Steve at ExoticRainforest.com> on 2009.11.15 at 13:50:09(20281) Thanks Marek. I have started addinga few in JPEG but with the thousands of photos already posted on thesite it would take forever to go back and convert them all. TheExoticRainforest site has over 300 pages and some have 10 or morephotos per page. All the photos are converted in PhotoShop 7.0 and the default forinternet use in the program is GIF. If I convert in PhotoShop to JPEGthe files are twice as large as GIF. I'm sure newer versions of theprogram do it better but since I'm retired I have no need to spendanother thousand dollars on a newer version. The original to the photoyou mentioned was in Photoshop PDF format, 11 megapixel and wasenormous. I would love to go back and reconvert that one but theoriginal file was accidentally destroyed so it is gone forever. Come visit! Steve HTML +More Marek Argent wrote: Steve, You own a dreamland of every aroidenthusiast! Anyway I must tell you it again -about your photos. The GIF format reduces colors to 256 (look at thePhilo leaves in the photo "atrium combined"), the colors are notnatural and the file takes more than 400 kB of memory. If you used the JPG format, the filesize would be smaller and in full colour. Marek --------------020500020303000208000602

From: "Marek Argent" <abri1973 at wp.pl> on 2009.11.15 at 17:46:12(20287) Hi again, Saving a file in jpeg format, you can choose the compression factor (in Photoshop while saving there is an option "Quality", you can choose a value between 0 - 12, and at the bottom of the window you can see the size of the converted photo). For plant photos the value 8-9 is enough. You don't need to spend a cent for a new photo editor, just download Irfan View, it is free and very simple to use. The compression factor is displayed in percents, I usually use 75-85% for web photos depending on the colours (red details require higher quality). I know that converting existing photos to a new format would be very time consuming. When I started with Araceum, the most common screen resolution was 800x600 px, so I was publishing photos in 300x400 px, and they are still there, but the new photos I add are larger. Marek HTML +More ----- Original Message ----- From: ExoticRainforest To: Discussion of aroids Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 2:50 PM Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] An open invitation. Thanks Marek. I have started adding a few in JPEG but with the thousands of photos already posted on the site it would take forever to go back and convert them all. The ExoticRainforest site has over 300 pages and some have 10 or more photos per page. All the photos are converted in PhotoShop 7.0 and the default for internet use in the program is GIF. If I convert in PhotoShop to JPEG the files are twice as large as GIF. I'm sure newer versions of the program do it better but since I'm retired I have no need to spend another thousand dollars on a newer version. The original to the photo you mentioned was in Photoshop PDF format, 11 megapixel and was enormous. I would love to go back and reconvert that one but the original file was accidentally destroyed so it is gone forever. Come visit! Steve Marek Argent wrote: Steve, You own a dreamland of every aroid enthusiast! Anyway I must tell you it again - about your photos. The GIF format reduces colors to 256 (look at the Philo leaves in the photo "atrium combined"), the colors are not natural and the file takes more than 400 kB of memory. If you used the JPG format, the file size would be smaller and in full colour. Marek _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l Nie znaleziono virusa w tej wiadomosci przychodzacej. Sprawdzone przez AVG - www.avg.com Wersja: 8.5.425 / Baza danych wirusów: 270.14.65/2503 - Data wydania: 11/14/09 19:42:00 ------=_NextPart_000_015A_01CA6623.E774CB00----=============='81962088085601640=

From: Kyle Baker <kylefletcherbaker at yahoo.com> on 2009.11.15 at 20:24:43(20291) I as well shall live vicariously through you and your wife and your intriguing collection. I sometimes dream of living somewhere where I could have Heliconia in the garden Orchids on the trees, Bromeliads on the fence and a tropical greenhouse full of philos, begonias and other assorted jewels. But then I think about Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Typhoons and lack of money and realize that my small overgrown 8 x 12' glassed in porch...is all I shall most likely have. The Exotic Rainforest site is lovely and I've lost myself for many an hour in the virtual realm. Th'x for giving yet another arm chair traveler the freedom!!! Mr. Kyle Fletcher Baker, MCN Maine HTML +More --0-1199384071-1258316683=:32670----==============c19519237010207622=

From: ExoticRainforest <Steve at ExoticRainforest.com> on 2009.11.17 at 02:44:47(20303) I'm more than delighted you enjoythe site Kyle! Come see it in person. Steve HTML +More Kyle Baker wrote: I as well shall live vicariously through you and yourwife and your intriguing collection. I sometimes dream of livingsomewhere where I could have Heliconia in the garden Orchids on thetrees, Bromeliads on the fence and a tropical greenhouse full ofphilos, begonias and other assorted jewels. But then I think about Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Typhoons and lack ofmoney and realize that my small overgrown 8 x 12' glassed in porch...isall I shall most likely have. The Exotic Rainforest site is lovely and I've lost myself for many anhour in the virtual realm. Th'x for giving yet another arm chair traveler the freedom!!! Mr. Kyle Fletcher Baker, MCN --------------020001080606070205030407

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