User talk:Velella

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File:Safrron stigmas crocus sativa.JPG

Dear Velella,

The picture you have uploaded as Safrron stigmas is for sure not of a Crocus sativus.
I guess that it is of a Crocus cancellatus, another species which is cultivated for their corms, which are eaten by some populations of Asia Minor. But I am not sure... it could also be of a form of Crocus speciosus, another species of Asia Minor, which is cultivated for its beautiful flowers.
Could you please let me know the location where you have taken this picture, so that I can confirm that it is Crocus cancellatus?
Best botanic regards, --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 09:19, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

File:Coracles_River_Teifi.jpg

Thanks for this picture. In the Coracle article an IP has been changing the names of the people seen in this picture. Do you remember who they were, and if so could you add that information to the image description? I have reverted the IP in any case. Richard Keatinge (talk) 08:07, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

I regret that I have no idea of the names of the people in the photograph but I guess some of the residents of Cenarth might well be able to recall their names. If I can find a reliable source I will amend the description here on Commons. Velella (talk) 15:27, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations Velella! Your image Image:Hadrian's wall at Greenhead Lough.jpg was the Wikipedia Random Picture of the Day! Click on this link to see what it looked like. - Presidentman (talk · contribs) Wikipedia Random Picture of the Day 23:00, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Great Orme

Hi Velella - I'm just checking whether it would be ok to use your nice pic of the Great Orme in a book that I am having published next year. I will of course acknowledge your contribution in the book.

Yours Sincerely,

Julian Heath - jmheath@fsmail.net

All images on commons are of course available for publication provided that the licensing requirements are fully complied with. Please check out the details of the licence attached to the image. Regards Velella (talk) 08:04, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

I use one of your photos

Hello Velella!

I have use a photo of Velella velella in my free software educational proyect "Animalandia" (http://animalandia.educa.madrid.org)

You can see directly in the follow link and clic over "Siguiente" ("Next"):

http://animalandia.educa.madrid.org/imagen.php?id=41897

If you wish (and I hope yes), you can send me (via fernando.lison@educa.madrid.org) some letters or/and a photo for your "contributor profile" in Animalandia:

http://animalandia.educa.madrid.org/autor.php?nombre=Velella

I want show to my students (and so everybody) that Animalandia is make for "real person", and I can tell them about "generosity", "share" and other similar words that we use very few at this time...

This is my "contributor profile" and others, for example:

http://animalandia.educa.madrid.org/autor.php?nombre=Fernando%20Lis%F3n%20Mart%EDn

http://animalandia.educa.madrid.org/autor.php?nombre=Carmen%20Jim%E9nez

http://animalandia.educa.madrid.org/autor.php?nombre=David%20P%E9rez

http://animalandia.educa.madrid.org/autor.php?nombre=Steve%20Garvie%20%28Rainbirder%29

In the future, I use more of your photos, I sure!

Thank you for the licence and, of course, for your splendid photos!!

Regards!

Fernando Lisón, from Spain --Fernando.lison (talk) 20:10, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Kowhai

Kia ora Velella

My name is Apanui Skipper and I am creating a traditional Māori weather poster for educational purposes. I have been collating Ngāi Tahu traditional weather forecasting to help improve and revitalise their understanding of how their ancestors predicted local weather. I am nearly finished but I am having a bit of difficulty sourcing excellent photos for some of these weather indicators. I have seen one in particular that I think will suit my poster. Hence the reason why I would like to request permission to use your photo re: Kōwhai Flowers. Your support to ensure that this poster is a success would be much appreciated. I will also acknowledge you as well as the photographer. Ngā mihi Apanui Skipper — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.94.59.21 (talk) 10:56, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Apanui, you are of course free to use the photograph . Acknowledgement of Wikimedia commons and of me as photographer would be welcome. Hope your poster is a success. Velella (talk) 12:38, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Fionnphort spelling

The spelling of Fionnphort is wrong. This happens in at least two places: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sorting_Crabs_Ffionphort.jpg and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Velella

ICE77 - 16:22, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

identity

Hi Velella - of File:Llandegfan Elm tree.jpg I can't remember if I've ever queried this one before, but I'm not convinced it is Ulmus laevis, rather than the expected local native Ulmus glabra. Do you have any flower or fruit photos to show whether it has the long peduncles of U. laevis or not, please? Thanks! - MPF (talk) 16:58, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Ah OK, it's here already File:Wych elm flower.jpg, I missed seeing it at first because of the rather anonymous filename. Ulmus laevis it is :-) I'll cross-link the two pics. - MPF (talk) 22:41, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

MPF- apologies for a rather long delay in replying. I am rarely on Commons these days. This particular elm was looked at by both the BSBI botanical survey group on Anglesey and by one of our local leading tree experts now retired from an academic career in forestry at Bangor University. The much debated and somewhat provisional view was that it was not U. laevis but a hybrid . Regrettably I don't have the details to hand but will try and find a copy in our local botanic garden at Treborth when I am next there. Regards. Velella (talk) 21:17, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Interesting, thanks! Not sure what it could be a hybrid with, though - U. laevis doesn't hybridise with any of the other European native elms. It might with U. americana, but where that could happen, must be an even deeper mystery. Perhaps time to get some DNA samples for analysis - MPF (talk) 21:24, 19 September 2019 (UTC)