Hi Felix, Good idea. Another thing I've noticed is that some of the pictures are not representative of the painting concerned. A good example is S7E4 'Mountain Cabin' where the picture shown is only 10% or less of the beautiful total scenery in the whole painting. Just based on that picture, I wouldn't have given it a second look. S7E1 'Winter Cabin' is another example. While your tagging is underway, is this something that could be looked at please - if not done already.

    DaveJ I think it is great idea, to have option to add better screenshot of the Bob,s painting if the current one is partial. Because anyway we will be scrolling through the video to identify if there are extra things. Taking screenshot and trimming it will not add much time and effort.

        These partial shots were the best one I could get from the YouTube videos. Sometimes they aren't showing the full painting at the end, so it's either an unfinished shot or a partial one.

        Felix I agree there. I watched so many episodes already and it happens frequently that the entire painting isn't shown.
        With the end credits, the painting shown can even differ somewhat from what Bob actually painted. Then they took another version of his three painted creations per episode.

            Felix I don't know if there's a copyright dimension to this, but we could photograph the versions from the books in cases where a complete version was not available on the TV program.

              20 days later

              Felix thank you so much for all the work you put into this site. I love being a member and love that there are other Bob fans who I can learn tips and tricks from. I am a huge BR fan myself and fairly new to painting so I'm really enjoying this new experience!

              Hi Felix, Is the picture tagging still in development? No rush because when it is done it will be the best addition to this web site, thanks to you......

                Dellajoy thank you for the kind words! 😊

                BStonebridge I've taken a few days off work (my real job, not working on this website 😉) and plan to finish the feature this week or on the weekend. Since Vienna is in total lockdown there isn't anything else to do, so (hopefully) no distractions

                    LJMpaintings I'm always interested in Bill Alexander compositions, but he's pretty obscure and not a lot of his TV work is readily accessible. My suspicion is some of his episodes were taped over, as was common in the '60s into the '70s. I've e-mailed both KOCE and Alexander Art and never got a reply. Although Alexander Art always takes my money. 😁

                      6 days later

                      The programming is done, I only need to add the different categories. This is what I came up with:

                      Anything I missed? Or something that could be removed?

                      Hi Felix - the only bit of clarification I would like is about the trees. Evergreen are in leaf all year round. Deciduous trees lose their leaves in winter. Pictures painted in a summer time will show all trees in leaf. Would deciduous trees in leaf be classed as evergreen? Minor detail I know, sorry

                        Felix Just some very quick thinking done here. You might wanna add 'boat' (man-made), 'animal' (special), 'snowfield' (landscape), mill (man-made), house (an-made), cypress (vegetation), ...
                        Does 'stream' also include 'rapids'?

                            @Voy Kay#1592 thanks! A stream is everything smaller than a river. So everything that gets painted with individual strokes I'd say

                              Felix Conifer is right, Bob uses "evergreen" whenever he means a pine tree, though there are many evergreen species not remotely related to pines.

                              Now, there are a few ambiguous trees. I'm specifically thinking of the whimsical spindly trees with leaves or needles that spray up. I tend to think of them as some sort of redwood or cedar, but I don't recall if Bob ever names the one or other variety.

                                  Might be an idea to add "farm" to the landscape category. Just my two cents worth. Hope it helps!

                                    i think it is great, if you cant find what you are looking for you should be doing something else!
                                    question, once users are able to populate the db with your options are you preventing the updating of the db if 2 users are both working on the same painting? as usual you are doing a great job.

                                      BStonebridge Thanks!

                                      At first, I will just collect suggestions from different users and consolidate them in the next step. I'll most likely go through all of the paintings by hand then, automatically preselect the most suggested tags and finalize the selection