Technical Details

The photos were taken with a Canon EOS 35mm camera with two different lenses. Fortunately, these all worked fine at -30 to -50 degrees F. 408 photos were taken and scanned to photo CDs, and the selection was edited down substantially to the 37 photos shown on this site. Each image was adjusted in Photoshop to give the proper contrast, brightness and color balance (based on a Sony Trinitron monitor on a Windows PC). Once the high-resolution images were ready, three lower-resolution version of each picture were produced with a batch-automated rescaling operation in Photoshop.

There are three sizes of images on the Web site, so there are 37 x 3 = 111 HTML pages for the images themselves, plus a few extra pages like the one you're looking at. The image pages were based on an HTML template created in Dreamweaver. GIF images for the template were produced with Fireworks. Generation of the image pages was accomplished by a custom Perl script whose input was the 111 JPEG images, a list of titles, and template page. The Perl program generated all the links and inserted the correct image in the appropriate place in each HTML file. The script is similar in nature to the one used on my paintings Web site.

The site took perhaps 20-30 hours of work to produce. Without the Perl and Photoshop automation tricks and the features of Fireworks and Dreamweaver, it might have taken five to ten times longer.

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