Subject: Re: Photo editing (was Sinistral Crossbills)
Date: Jan 3 14:31:59 1996
From: Eugene Hunn - hunn at u.washington.edu


Remember the upside-down Razorbill on the cover of _American Birds_ a
while back?

Gene Hunn.

On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Don Baccus wrote:

> Dennis Paulson
> >Even more disturbing (or amusing, depending on your point of view at that
> >moment), I've seen a fair number of images that were printed at right
> >angles to the original or upside down.
>
> Oh boy. I'm planning to load more images onto my web server, including
> one of a mayfly. The print I have looks much better upside down
> to most people.
>
> Maybe I'll put up two versions and let people decide which to look
> at!
>
> >I have been involved in choosing photos for several books, and I was
> >at least slightly appalled at the number of misidentified ones.
>
> Not those submitted by D. Paulsen for use in your shorebirds book,
> I hope! :)
>
> - Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>
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