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Kom Thai Palm Experienced

Kom Thai Palm

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Hello Kris,

How about your larger pic or any explanation, love to hear what is that palm  :)

Thank very much Morabeza79

To Kamipalms

Your photo is very nice, so beautiful palm. But........I agree with Trópico, disortion make your avatar reduce a half of it's beauty.

Your original photo have size 500*399 pixels. To fixed with 64*64 pixels avatar limitation, try to convert your original photo to 64*51 pixels and upload it.

To Dean Moderator

I just know recently that avatar limitation increase from 64*64 to 90*90 pixels but only work on image link (from other host). When upload avatar to this host, server will resize automatically to 64*64 limitation. I see on this page have both two groups of avatar size 1.)64*64 from upload image on this host   2.)90*90 from photobucket(or any others host) image link

I think we should have the same size for uniformity.

Komkrit Yensirikul

Bangkok, Thailand /17C to 40C Avg32C /rain 4 months a year.

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Kris Grand Master

Kris

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Hai Redvox  :)

even i wish to post my cycas revoulta still,but there

are 2 problems one is that iam unable to find that in

my desktop images(Collection).and secondly its from

a reputed website.from there i have copied the image.

so do not wish to exhibit it causing any copywright

problems etc..

But even i feel that hey your phoenix ekamanii  is fentastic.

And peter does your 'girl' love palms like all of us here do.

since iam an elegible bachelor i intend to settle down with

her for life in that beautiful island of Bora Bora with all my

container palms air droped to that location.

I wish to call your still as the Utopian Experience.

Thanks you guys & love to see and also hear more of the

members avatar's Exp...

Love,

Kris.

love conquers all..

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Trópico Grand Master

Trópico

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(redvdox @ Jan. 11 2007,09:25)

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I think we should have the same size for uniformity.

Along those lines, it would be cool to have a size like this:

This is from the other forum I usually hang out when I'm not around, were I too am an admin Dean  :)

Is it possible, or is there a size limitation? It would be cool since too small can distort an otherwise beautiful image as this thread proves.

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Frank

 

Zone 9b pine flatlands

humid/hot summers; dry/cool winters

with yearly freezes

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osideterry Grand Master

osideterry

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As soon as I get a photo of one of my own palms worthy of being an avatar I'll use it. Until then, I found this image from a botanical book printed in 1809. I guess I'm gambling that copyright laws don't extend back 200 years, or that a 1x1 thumbnail image used on a forum won't get me in too much trouble. Now watch as I prove to be a huge daredevil by posting the original image.

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Zone 9b/10a, Sunset Zone 22

7 miles inland. Elevation 120ft (37m)

Average annual low temp: 30F (-1C)

Average annual rainfall: 8" (20cm)

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MattyB Grand Master

MattyB

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(Peter @ Jan. 10 2007,21:13)

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Peter, that has got to be one of the most beautiful photos I've ever seen!!! WOW!!!!!!  I love the clear water, the contrast of her dark skin, the deep blue sky, her dark skin, did I say her.....oh nevermind.

Matt Bradford

"Manambe Lavaka"

Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

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JBa3Fan Contributor

JBa3Fan

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My wife and I took our first cruise last year

and our first stop was to Colon Panama  

and this is what we first seen as we woke up.

I had to skew this down to  35% to post here

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will try to do the things that they say can't be done

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Walter John Grand Master

Walter John

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(MattyB @ Jan. 12 2007,02:34)

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(Peter @ Jan. 10 2007,21:13)

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Peter, that has got to be one of the most beautiful photos I've ever seen!!! WOW!!!!!!  I love the clear water, the contrast of her dark skin, the deep blue sky, her dark skin, did I say her.....oh nevermind.

There is definitely something odd about me, all I can see is some material to make a nice aloha short sleever. Oh and nice blue sky as well.

Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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Alan_Tampa Mentor

Alan_Tampa

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This is my avatar.  A palm salamander from Guatemala. Bolitoglossa doflein

Alan

Edit by Mod: Alan, I had to resize your pic. It was much too large.

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Tampa, Florida

Zone - 10a

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Al in Kona Grand Master

Al in Kona

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Some great and interesting Avatar pics here.  Peter, yours is simply beautiful!  

Mine is a photo I took of the crown of a Pritchardia schattaueri in habitat in South Kona, Hawaii Island, which is very near to where we live (less than 2 miles).

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Hawaii Island (Big Island), leeward coast, 19 degrees N. latitude, south Kona mauka at approx. 380m (1,250 ft.) and about 1.6 km (1-mile) upslope from ocean.

 

No record of a hurricane passing over this island (yet!).  

Summer maximum rainfall - variable averaging 900-1150mm (35-45") - Perfect drainage on black volcanic rocky soil.  

Nice sunsets!

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Trópico Grand Master

Trópico

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(Peter @ Jan. 11 2007,00:13)

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See my point about the size?! I've seen this great pic for a while but the person in the pic, I thought, might as well be Peter:

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Frank

 

Zone 9b pine flatlands

humid/hot summers; dry/cool winters

with yearly freezes

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Zac in NC Veteran

Zac in NC

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Yeah I knew you had an interest in them. Perhaps you should get pics and post them in the pets thread in the palapa. I know I'd like to see the less cuddly ones.

Zac

Zac  

Living to get back to Mexico

International Palm Society member since 2007

http://community.webshots.com/user/zacspics - My Webshots Gallery

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Cristóbal Proficient

Cristóbal

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i put where i live for the avatar, i wish more people put in signature where they are.  most people know wheres tijuana (México)

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TEMP. JAN. 21/10 C (69/50 F), AUG. 29/20 C (84/68 F). COASTAL DESERT, MOST DAYS MILD OR WARM, SUNNY AND DRY. YEARLY PRECIPITATION: 210 MM (8.2 INCHES). ZONE 11 NO FREEZES CLOSE TO THE OCEAN.

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tikitiki Mentor

tikitiki

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After seeing these great pics I think I need a new avatar.

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With a tin cup for a chalice

Fill it up with good red wine,

And I'm-a chewin' on a honeysuckle vine.

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Jeff Searle Grand Master

Jeff Searle

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This is such a simple thread, but with really great results. It's very interesting to see the larger pics. And their all very good! The Tahiti pic. is absolutely gorgous!

  I'm still debating on weather to put my mug up there. It's just my face. :(

Jeff

Searle Brothers Nursery Inc.

and The Rainforest Collection.

Southwest Ranches,Fl.

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PALM MOD Grand Master

PALM MOD

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To everyone with questions about avatar size, etc.

It would be nice to have uniform avatar size. However, our forum software has the uploaded avatar option fixed at 64 x 64. So to have everything uniform I would have to cap the linked option at the small size also.

I like the bigger option. Everybody can do it if they wish using the linked option.

As to the resizing and the "squashed or stretched" look. That is also predetermined by the forum software. There are some tricks to be used with photos to prevent that, and it looks like most have figured that out. With graphics or "canned" gifs and the like, it is more difficult. Also, with photos in a landscape mode (as oppossed to portrait) it seems to resize better.

It would be too difficult for me to try and explain cropping and resizing given all the different editing programs out there. In general, the closer you can get your image to a square size the better it will display as an avatar in this forum. If you can not size to a square satisfactorily, you can change the pixel height and width when entering the avatar info.

Thanks to those of you who help make this a fun and friendly forum.

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MattyB Grand Master

MattyB

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That's OK Jeff, I can see it from here. :laugh:  Just joking. :D

Matt Bradford

"Manambe Lavaka"

Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

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Jeff Searle Grand Master

Jeff Searle

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(MattyB @ Jan. 11 2007,16:36)

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That's OK Jeff, I can see it from here. :laugh:  Just joking. :D

Matt,

 Thats good! When I first saw yours when you changed over, she looked awfully familar. She looks like a girl I met over in Madagascar at the Le Glacier Bar in the capital. OH.....what fond memories are coming back.

Jeff

Searle Brothers Nursery Inc.

and The Rainforest Collection.

Southwest Ranches,Fl.

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MattyB

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Is this the same girl that accosted Jack in the DR? :laugh:

Matt Bradford

"Manambe Lavaka"

Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

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DoomsDave Grand Master

DoomsDave

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(MattyB @ Jan. 11 2007,12:34)

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(Peter @ Jan. 10 2007,21:13)

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Peter, that has got to be one of the most beautiful photos I've ever seen!!! WOW!!!!!!  I love the clear water, the contrast of her dark skin, the deep blue sky, her dark skin, did I say her.....oh nevermind.

. . . . and the way her figure so curvaceously mirrors the mold of the mountains . . . . .

pant pant pant

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DoomsDave Grand Master

DoomsDave

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Hmm

My avatar (when it works) is the geeky cartoon kid, "Kudzu" in the cartoon of the same name.  Geeky, but good-hearted, interested but a bit shy sometimes.  (And who, on occasion, wears red shoes . . . )

Kudzu is penned by Doug Marlette, who is also a famous (infamous?) editorial cartoonist, and who wrote a prize-winning novel "The Bridge."

I guess I could use a palm-oriented avatar, but everyone knows this one.  (When it works . . . )

dave

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mike453

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I'm thinking that size will be sufficient :blush:

                                 Mike

Zone 5? East Lansing MI

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Alan_Tampa Mentor

Alan_Tampa

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Fuzzy, I want you to blow...your avatar up to a larger size.  It looks like a chinchilla humping Spiderman's head?

Alan

Tampa, Florida

Zone - 10a

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Zac in NC Veteran

Zac in NC

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(Alan_Tampa @ Jan. 11 2007,23:46)

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Fuzzy, I want you to blow...your avatar up to a larger size.  It looks like a chinchilla humping Spiderman's head?

Alan

Yep. Shouldn't his spidey sense have kicked in at the very beginning?  :P

Zac

Zac  

Living to get back to Mexico

International Palm Society member since 2007

http://community.webshots.com/user/zacspics - My Webshots Gallery

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SunnyFl Mentor

SunnyFl

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Here's mine, blown up - although I may change it to include a palm.......

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St. Pete

Zone - a wacked-out place between 9b & 10

Elevation = 44' - not that it does any good

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GREENHAND Mentor

GREENHAND

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I had to use this picture, sadly this majesty is no longer living dispite my efforts to keep it living in zone 8b, it goes to show you cant fool mother nature. i  got shoved around and my lunch money taken!!

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STEVE IN SO CAL Mentor

STEVE IN SO CAL

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Here's mine...a shot looking into the mouth of an Agave Tequilana(variegated) It is in it's final death dance as we speak, having bloomed this summer. Good news is, it's covered in bulbils...

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I don't know if it's just me, but when I stare at this pic, it makes me feel a bit woozy, like it's in motion

If global warming means I can grow Cocos Nucifera, then bring it on....

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Peter Veteran

Peter

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Thanks for all the nice comments, although I'm not sure I'll should show all of them to my wife  :;):    It was hard to take a bad photo in Bora Bora; if you close your eyes and think of paradise you've pretty much described it.

San Fernando Valley, California

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Kris Grand Master

Kris

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Now !

Al in Kona_thanks for the big one,i thought it was Washy

Filiera fan palm all these days.

Tikitiki_ fentastic close up ! i love it.

And Dear Moderator_ your avatar happens to be the best,

hope to see in big size.so that i can copie it to my HDD. :D  :D

Dear Dave what happen to that comic tin tin type avatar

of yours,i really miss that Guy !

Sunny that hibiscus flowers are my mom's fav,most have

perished in our gardens due to fungus grouth.it appears to

be the double jamican pink i suppose ?

Dear greenhand where are you ??? we all missed you_Pal !

your best still was franksinatra's hand on his face icon.

And steve my buddy you never fail to amaze me by putting

terrefic icos,and the new one of Agave's has bowled me over

since i love all the Xerophytes & Agaves too.

And Jeff you look okay with that avatar,so please stick with it.

Hey i wish all members do some explaining of their Avatars in

this lovely thread.

Love,

Kris.

love conquers all..

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Kathy Community Regular

Kathy

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Greenhand, sorry to hear about your majesty.  You put so much work into that one.

 San Francisco Bay Area, California

Zone 10a

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GREENHAND Mentor

GREENHAND

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thanks kris, it is good to be back.  also thanks Kathy , it was doing fine until late last winter it droped to 19 deg and i was out of town on business and wasent able to go down to the lake and protect it with my electrict blanket, when i went down the next week it looked like somebody poured gasoline on it and put a match to it. so i now have a real nice bizzy to replace it with , i will plant it this spring.

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PALM MOD

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(krisachar @ Jan. 12 2007,06:08)

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And Dear Moderator_ your avatar happens to be the best,

hope to see in big size.so that i can copie it to my HDD. :D  :D

For you Kris

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Thanks to those of you who help make this a fun and friendly forum.

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RadPalms Community Regular

RadPalms

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I am a new member here and thought I'd add my picture....I don't post much because I don't know all that much about palms, but I am learning from you guys and girls here on the forum.....Thanks for all the great information that you leave here in the threads...

Curt

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Cypress, Ca.

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DoomsDave Grand Master

DoomsDave

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Rad!

You are . . . .

Nice to meet you!

dave

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Jeff Searle Grand Master

Jeff Searle

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This is where my avitar pic. came from. We were on our way up into the Marojejy Mountains in Northeast Madagascar. In order to get to the park entrance, you have to walk right through this village.Some of you might remember this photo from the "Madagascar Expedition April 05" thread.

Jeff

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Searle Brothers Nursery Inc.

and The Rainforest Collection.

Southwest Ranches,Fl.

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paulgila Grand Master

paulgila

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wow jeff,i never knew you had such a large family.

all those expeditions were to look at palms,huh? :;):

the "prince of snarkness."

 

still "warning-free."

 

san diego,california,left coast.

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Jeff Searle Grand Master

Jeff Searle

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Ahh,Oh,aaa,what da mean?? Ya think one of those kids resembles me a little?? ???  What da see some blue eyes in one of them??

Jeff

Searle Brothers Nursery Inc.

and The Rainforest Collection.

Southwest Ranches,Fl.

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