Rob, don't give up! Where do my words fail?
This is really quite simple--we're talking about CONTINUING from
a given image, and only a VERY simple bit of making one turn and tuck!
This shouldn't take xxxMbytes of pictures.
Your description is adequate. What you describe has been shown in
KM (Knotting Matters--IGKT newsletter). A similar bowline, which also
can be tied in the bight(!) is shown on the same site:
www.iland.net/~jbritton/KnotPhotoContributions.htm--scroll down a few images.
This version simply crosses the end to the outer side of the knot's
loop (not eye) before tucking it back through the
collar. The
version you describe has a risk of the tucked end working to the
wrong side of the SPart (mostly during the tying process, and likely
most vulnerable in stiffer material).
The lock I described as binding the gooseneck is simply described
re that "rear view" bowline image (which seem
front to me! :-)
as follows: bring the end down over the parts (towards the
viewer, i.e.) and just to the left of the
collar (which your
version goes through), and then follow the end's original tuck
back up through the gooseneck. The end thus makes a full
turn around the part of the gooseneck where parts cross in
its forming a circle/loop. Done with the Dble.Bowline, this is a quite
secure binding (which gets no tighter on loading, and indeed
as rope stretches & thins, there will develop some space in the
turn).
Now, for the Janus Bwl.: the end is going to make a collar around
the left side of the eye just as it has already made a collar around
the SPart (Standing Part). Thus, the end goes left OVER &
back under this left side, then it is tucked through the gooseneck
rightwards & downwards (NW to SE); it will cross under itself
(to the extent one might see that even as a crossing)
and over the rightside end of eye, under right side of knot's loop
(i.e., tucked between those parts).
Pulling on the end when finished thus will pull in the left side
of the eye; in many materials, this suffices to keep the gooseneck
tight enough to prevent loosening of the knot. YMMV.
--dl*