My Photos

Here are the best of my holiday snaps. They are all thumbnailed - click on an image to download the full picture. With IE5, move the pointer over the picture to get a description: I don't know whether this works with Netscape or other viewers.

The procedure that I followed for each photograph was:

  1. Scan the photo at 100 dpi if full size, or at 200dpi if zooming into a portion of the picture. This saves a .bmp file.

  2. Read the .bmp file into Paint Shop Pro, increase the brightness by 10% (the scanned images were darker than the originals), and save as a JPEG (.jpg) file.

  3. Reduce the image size to 141x100 pixels for a full-size photo, or similar for others. Save with the same file name but with a "t" suffix (for thumbnail). For example, the file zam1-03.jpg has an associated thumbnail file zam1-03t.jpg.

  4. Use FrontPage Express to edit this HTML page. When inserting images, browse to the thumbnail file. Then right-click on the image, select "Image Properties...", and set the Default Hyperlink location to the full-size file name, and the Text Alternative Representation to a suitable description of the picture.

  5. Delete the .bmp file, as it is typically 1Mb compared with a typical .jpg of 75Kb.

 

Blue lagoon, Chinhoyi caves. Blue lagoon, Chinhoyi caves. An open sluice on the Kariba dam. Sunset viewed from Lake Kariba.

Sunrise over the Chongwe river. The Germans didn't make it across the river. Alan surprises the impala. Elephant raiding our bin, Chongwe camp.

The road surface was less than ideal at times. Hot spring Musungwa safari lodge camp site at sunset.

Nicholas with souvenir tusk extracted from truck grill. Totality 3rd contact Zebra, South Luangwa.

Hippo pod amiss, South Luangwa. Wart hogs, South Luangwa. Peter, Grand Master of Ecky-Thump