User talk:Igoldste

Dustspots in Iceland

Hello!
I'm trully sorry for my "oppose" vote to your picture, which is an extraordinary one. I hope it will be better now without the dustspots !--Jebulon (talk) 10:41, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

• Hi. No apology necessary, those dust spots were bad. I am glad that you saw them. Had I seen them, I would have cleaned them up before posting the image. --Ira Goldstein 21:02, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Jokulsarlon Panorama.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Jokulsarlon Panorama.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 22:04, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

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Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Queens Window Saint Hilarion Kalesi.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality and 7,484 × 3,488 pixels. --Lmbuga 23:36, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Category:Iceland

I´m going to point three points out why media-files should not be in Category:Iceland, but only other categories.

First, please familiarize yourself with the therm Over-categorization. On that page, I quote: "Over-categorization is what happens when an image is placed in several categories within the same tree."

Category:Iceland is within the same tree as Category:Seyðisfjörður in two ways, one is trough Category:East-Iceland and Category:Geography of Iceland and the other through Category:Towns in Iceland and Category:Populated places in Iceland (see the picture to the right for clarification). The same applies with the other files where you reverted my edit. Over-categorization is one of the things to avoid and thus an file should never be in several categories within the same tree.

Secondly, if every file that is photographed in Iceland would be in Category:Iceland, then the category would clutter up and no-one would find it. This is mentioned in on the Over-categorization page that I linked to. To clarify this even further: There are 10579 files that have the word "Iceland" either in its file name or on the file pages. If all of those files would be in Category:Iceland, the category would display 200 files on each page. In the worst case, someone that where looking for an particular file would have to go trough 53 pages and all those 10579 files to find the file he was looking for. Basicly, that is just a waste of time.

Thirdly, Category:Iceland is one of the main categories on commons. Pictures and media files are always moved from there to subcategories. Take a look at the category. You will see an blue box that says exactly that.

If you decide to answer this comment, then please back your statements with reasoning.--Snaevar (talk) 23:27, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Pétursey.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Very nice. --Avenue 09:16, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria:

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Permission to use your photo of Iceland church with sod roof

Mr. Goldstein: Good evening. I am preparing to present at a one day green roof conference in Columbia Maryland in March 2014. One of my assigned topics is "understanding the origins of today's green roofs". I believe your picture of the modern day Icelandic church with a sod roof ties back to the origins of primitive structures and will benefit my audience's understanding of green roof architecture throughout history. I would like to use your photo and of course credit you on that power point slide which will become part of the handout for the attendees. Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to hearing from you. Please e-mail me directly at : cleo1035@verizon.net

Thank you very much

Nina Paterno Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Guardian Angel by Maro Avrabou and Dimitri Xanakis - Jerusalem Light Festival 2013.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments The water traces are fringed with prominent magenta CA; can be fixed. --Cccefalon 07:11, 12 March 2014 (UTC) I tried several corrections but finally it turned out that your postprocess probably ended with the best solution. So, for me it's QI. --Cccefalon 07:33, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Panorama of the Jökulsárlón glacial lake in Iceland

I would love to use this photo as part of a book cover. Would you please email me at kiwi44@comcast.net and let me know if this is okay, and if so, how you'd like me to reference you inside.

Thanks! Tracey

Jokulsarlon Panorama

Hi Ira,

This quick message to let you know that we have used your image "Jokulsarlon Panorama" on the Cryosphere page of the European Geosciences Union blog (http://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2016/05/06/image-of-the-week-glowing-ice/)

I hope you don't mind,

All the best

Sophie

Sophie,

Hi. Not at all. I'm so glad that you liked it.

Thank you for including the photo credit and letting me know that you used it.

Best,

Ira

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2015 is open!

You are receiving this message because you voted in R1 of the 2015 Picture of the Year contest.

Dear Igoldste,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2015 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the tenth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2015) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

There are two total rounds of voting. In the first round, you voted for as many images as you liked. In Round 1, there were 1322 candidate images. There are 56 finalists in Round 2, comprised of the top 30 overall as well as the top #1 and #2 from each sub-category. In the final round, you may vote for just one or maximal three image to become the Picture of the Year.

Round 2 will end on 28 May 2016, 23:59:59 UTC.

Click here to vote »

Thanks,
-- Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee 09:42, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Photo of turf church at Hof, Iceland

Dear Ira,

I am writing an academic article about turf house in the Nordic lands as the origin of modern green roofs. Your photo of the turf church at Hof (Iceland) would be wonderful as an illustration of the traditional Nordic turf house. Please grant your permission to use the photo in my paper. If you have a better photo without blocking of the lower part of the church by the row of hedges, please consider sending it to me.

I can be reached at email hragjcy@hku.hk.

Thanks and best wishes,

C.Y. Jim University of Hong Kong

glacial photograph

Good-morning,

Just to say that I'm using your Icelandic glacier shot as part of an educational presentation on soils and their formation here in NY.

Thanks for making this available.

Conrad Vispo. Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program conrad@hawthornevalleyfarm.org — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.148.108.200 (talk) 13:00, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Image

Hi Ira,

I'm looking to purchase an image of Freeport NY from Shutterstock and can't seem to find any. I noticed that you have several images on Wikimedia. Do you post your images on any website for sale for use on a commercial website? Let me know. Thanks.

Rynae

Eggin i Gledivik photo

Hi Ira, just wanted to let you know that I have used your Eggin i Gledivik photo in my video about traveling Iceland (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45awOZB1S3g&t=31s).

Thanks for making it available.

Best regards Matija 93.103.27.184 06:35, 24 June 2023 (UTC)