Since ya didn't respond via "QUOTE REPLY"...Who ya askin'?

***DING, DING, DING***
You got it Steve.
Believe it or not, a lot of people have never thought about this, don't know why, or could care less. <grins> (Useless trivia?)

Your photo entry is a WINNER!!! It's beautiful.

Just remember, the 'cheater' will have to answer on 'judgment day.'

Opinion: Judging should be done by a minimum of three people with NO entrants present. Case in point: A gal pal won "Best of Division" at the State Fair (5 judges). The following year she entered the same image at the County Fair and didn't even get so much as an Honorable Mention (1 local judge). Judging is so subjective and you never know what the judges are looking for. Another issue: State Fair rules SPECIFICALLY state "NO PHOTOSHOP" images (other than cropping and clean-up) are allowed. When I went to view the results there was a 2nd place ribbon on an image that was b/w with selective color. Pretty obvious what had been done. So...when I went to collect my photos, I mentioned it to the person who had been chosen as the 'administrator' for the open entries in 2012. She was very much aware of the issue and said she would be policing the judging very carefully this year. Ahhhhh...we'll see if "the squeaky wheel gets the oil".

Despite the fact that you didn't win the $$$, you're still a winner to all your Hedgehog buddies. Don't be soured by one bad incident. Keep at it JW!!!

[quote=johnnyg67][Robin,Wow you is edumacated! Could you type this again a little slower? I'm from the South ya'll.

PS You're number 400 for me looks like I have to remark on your post on my special numbers for good luck! (hope the little UHH feller that changes numbers here gets it right this time! :mrgreen: [/quote]

I'm typing as s l o w l y a s I c a n J o h n n y.
I may be 'edumacated' but not to the degree of knowing all of this stuff! <Laf'n>
Google is my best friend when it comes to searching for info on the internet.
BTW..."Happy 400!" Your next response will be #??? It will show just how busy you've been. <grins>

Response #1:
Papua New Guinea. (My pastor just came back from a 2-week trip there.)

or

Response #2:
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression. PNG was created to improve upon and replace GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) as an image-file format not requiring a patent license. The initialism PNG can also be interpreted as a recursive initialism for "PNG's Not GIF".
PNG supports palette-based images (with palettes of 24-bit RGB or 32-bit RGBA colors), grayscale images (with or without alpha channel), and full-color non-palette-based RGB[A] images (with or without alpha channel). PNG was designed for transferring images on the Internet, not for professional-quality print graphics, and therefore does not support non-RGB color spaces such as CMYK.
PNG files nearly always use file extension PNG or png and are assigned MIME media type image/png; it was approved for this use by the Internet Engineering Steering Group on October 14, 1996. PNG was published as an ISO/IEC standard in 2004.
History and development
The motivation for creating the PNG format was in early 1995, after it became known that the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) data compression algorithm used in the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) format was patented by Unisys. There were also other problems with the GIF format that made a replacement desirable, notably its limit of 256 colors at a time when computers able to display far more than 256 colors were growing common. Although GIF allows for animation, it was decided that PNG should be a single-image format. A companion format called Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) has been defined for animation, whereas a competing format, Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG), supports backward-compatibility with PNG (which MNG does not).
A January 1995 precursory discussion thread, on the usenet newsgroup "comp.graphics" with the subject Thoughts on a GIF-replacement file format, had many propositions, which would later be part of the PNG file format. In this thread, Oliver Fromme, author of the popular DOS JPEG viewer QPEG, proposed the PING name, meaning PING is not GIF, and also the PNG extension.
- October 1, 1996: Version 1.0 of the PNG specification was released, and later appeared as RFC 2083. It became a W3C Recommendation on October 1, 1996.
- December 31, 1998: Version 1.1, with some small changes and the addition of three new chunks, was released.
- August 11, 1999: Version 1.2, adding one extra chunk, was released.
- November 10, 2003: PNG became an International Standard (ISO/IEC 15948:2003). This version of PNG differs only slightly from version 1.2 and adds no new chunks.
- March 3, 2004: ISO/IEC 15948:2004.

Ok Guy Johnstone, this is the last time I'm doing your homework for you. <giggles>

And I suppose you already know why manhole covers are always round, eh?

Hope you're not making reference to me! <ha>
My 'research' took all of one minute before I went to work (unfortunately...someone's gotta do it). <grins>

Yeah...what he said! <giggles>

<Laf'n> Thanks!

Nope. That's simply how you find things like this.

The name "JPEG" stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the name of the committee that created the JPEG standard and also other standards. It is one of two sub-groups of ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, Subcommittee 29, Working Group 1 (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1) – titled as Coding of still pictures.[3][4][5] The group was organized in 1986,[6] issuing the first JPEG standard in 1992, which was approved in September 1992 as ITU-T Recommendation T.81[7] and in 1994 as ISO/IEC 10918-1.

The JPEG standard specifies the codec, which defines how an image is compressed into a stream of bytes and decompressed back into an image, but not the file format used to contain that stream.[8] The Exif and JFIF standards define the commonly used file formats for interchange of JPEG-compressed images.

(I love Google and Wikipedia) Anything else you might want to know? <giggles>

The name stands for [b]Joint Photographic Experts Group.]/b] JPEG itself specifies only how an image is transformed into a stream of bytes, but not how those bytes are encapsulated in any particular storage medium. A further standard, created by the Independent JPEG Group, called JFIF (JPEG File Interchange Format) specifies how to produce a file suitable for computer storage and transmission (such as over the Internet) from a JPEG stream. In common usage, when one speaks of a "JPEG file" one generally means a JFIF file, or sometimes an Exif JPEG file. There are, however, other JPEG-based file formats, such as JNG. (Etc., etc., etc.,)

[Note: Google]

WOOHOO!!! (In capital letters...) Congrats!!!

Thanks for the post Rob. Sharing a couple of mine...early morning fog laying low accross my pasture. Taken with my old Nikon P90. I'm patiently waiting to try this again with the new Nikon D3100.

Wait till it freezes on everything...it's called Pogonip...then you can photograph the 'frozen' fog! <giggles> SERIOUSLY!!!