Virtual Photo Albulm

Introduction

One of the things about having a digital camera, especially one that you carry everywhere with you, is that you take a whole bunch of photos. And then people ask to see your photos, and you don't have the excuse that "they're being developed". But you do have the problem of how to show people the photos.

Enter the World Wide Web. Enter Ewen's virtual photo albulm.

All New and improved: now with photos rotated to the correct direction. (Only recent photos have been converted so far, but the rest will be converted given some free time. Don't hold your breath.)

Ewen McNeill <photos@ewen.mcneill.gen.nz>, 2002/08/12

Photos

The photos are organised by year, month, and location. They're listed in reverse chronological order.

Notes

(These comments were originally in the introduction; but it got too long, so they've been moved to the end.)

In early 2001, after much soul searching I finally gave into the "Ooooohh, shiiiiinnnny" urge and bought myself a digital camera. For quite a lot more money than I'd been planning to spend. The camera is a Sony DSC-P1, a very compact 3 MegaPixel camera, which is small enough and light enough to be carried everywhere (which was one of the main things I wanted in a camera). With one exception I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone: that hesitation is that the camera or battery seems to have developed a dislike for talking to the other part, and occassionally the camera claims "battery? what battery? I don't see any battery here", while cheerfully displaying a picture on its LCD screen, running on battery power. When it does this it won't take any more photos until it can be persuaded it has a battery again. Possibly a new battery will cure it of this behaviour; although alas they are NZ$140 each, and it seems a but suspect for it to have failed after only a few months.

In an ideal world the photos would be carefully presented with little descriptions against each one describing where they were taken, and what they show. In the world we live in, I have far too much to do, so unfortunately there's just the photos, and you'll have to make up your own descriptions.

All the photos below were taken with my Sony DSC-P1 camera, mostly at 2048x1536 (3MP) but with a few taken at 1600x1200 (2MP). For use on the web they have been resized to a quarter of their original size, with a perl script (that used the perl interface to ImageMagick). This script also produced the thumbnails, and added the annotations to the photo. Another perl script produced the index.html files, that link all the thumbnails for a given location together.

Unfortunately so far nothing has been done about the photos which were taken in portrait mode. You'll just have to get some valuable neck exercises, or mount your monitor on a gimbal.