h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Thankyou for the pictures we have already receved
I've just this minute sent you thankyou emails as well
lots of lovely and a very handsome tiger

I may be purchasing some veg Saturday... if any is a suitable type, and an amusing shape, I'll get me camra out
mmmm. phesant... I could probably buy one from the butchers saturday, and cook it

Is the pheasant pre-plucked in the shop?

err... I think* so... the butchers I think near me, sells them as a brace, I think they're from some local game keeper so they should be pre-plucked and al already hung actually, a brace of pheasants just for myself might be a bit over the top damn... and I've not got a functional roasting pan anymore danit, I forgot about that

How do you wreck a...

You know what? Never mind. I'm not sure I want to know

Thank you!
We are also very happy to receive animal pictures if you find any unillustrated Entries!

So far we have received:

the snowballfights picture from Mr603
a snowman from Shagbark
winter pics from Galaxy Babe
a tiger and penguins from Dmitri
various vegetables but I'm not sure what all of them are and who exactly sent them, please let us know!
Thanks a lot to all of you!



When you send us an email please remember to tell us your U-number and the name/number of the Entry you want to illustrate.

Update:

as Anthea said 'Dmitri tries to single handedly illustrate the Guide' he for instance sent some very good animal photos
we also got lovely pictures for the Entry about Cross Country Skiing from U177445

Thank you!

Oh, and Gnomon sent broccoli. I don't like broccoli, but we are still grateful.

I have pix of both blood oranges and mangoes, which I will send. Today. Later today.

That's great!

I've a picture of a fruit market, but I can't see any appropriate entry to put it on.

Send it anyway - perhaps someone will write about fruit markets!

Hee hee, there's a novel approach - an appeal for Entries to go with our pictures. I like

Maybe a Create challenge?

Not having seen the photo can I suggest these might be suitable?

A fruit for all seasons A820405

Great Outdoor Markets A695342

I have sent the photos! Hurrah!

Definitely an interesting idea, that, the pix before the entries...

I believe most rock lyrics are written after the tunes are composed, so why not?

They have a name for it. Stock photography.

Come to think of it. A good range of general images would be a good way to blob unblobbed entries. There's no reason I can think of that we shouldn't repurpose existing art for legacy entries.

Is there a good resource for browsing through h2g2 blobs anymore? I remember doing so in the long-long-ago times.

Right now, your best bet's going to be using the Edited Guide Search Button. (Works well for us at the Post. )

'A good range of general images would be a good way to blob unblobbed entries.'
Well, that's what we're doing here. We're adding pictures to Entries that have none.
Generally I prefer having pictures that really fit to the Entry and not just a generic picture that fits to many topics at once. We also have a lot of Entries that are quite difficult to illustrate because there are many weird subjects.


Also, no, there are no good ways at the moment to search for pictures. In the volunteers tools we have an internal library of pictures. New pictures can be serached with keywords that we add to every illustration, but the old ones don't have that of course so you can only look through the whole list.

As Dmitri suggested the best way is to go through the Entries and see where we have pictures and where we don't.