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Hazel's Picture Gallery
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What is "Hazel's Picture Gallery?" This is a collection of photos, mostly taken by myself (Chaz "Hazel" Boston Baden) and my friends. As of February 2008, we have over 37,000 photos online (not including the lost images, 80% of which we have thumbnails for), and over 8,000 names indexed in the Cross-Reference.
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In February 1997, I purchased a digital camera, the Casio QV-10A. Then in August 1999, I bought a new one, the Olympus D-340R. A year later, while attending Chicon 2000 (the 2000 World Science Fiction Convention), I left the D-340R in a cab, and then in December 2000 we purchased the Olmypus "D-460 Zoom" model. I dropped that one a few too many times and its reliability dropped dramatically. (You can see this if you know what to look for - specifically, I took fewer pictures at Loscon than I would have if my camera hadn't been acting up. I went party-hopping on Friday night and didn't get any shots...) In Dec. 2002 we bought a Fuji Finepix 2650 which also has zoom and flash, and 2 megapixel capability. Sadly, that camera disappeared in March 2003; I can't seem to find where I left it at home or office.
My first camera didn't have a flash; the second one (which I lost) had a flash, but not an optical zoom; and the current one has flash and zoom.
I originally intended to use the Casio in conjunction with newsletters, but there's admittedly a limited application when you consider the finished product is going to be reproduced on a high-speed but possibly low-grade photocopier. And when I first told my wife I wanted to get the camera, she didn't really think I would get much use out of it, but could see that I wanted a new toy and so she raised no objections. She's been surprised how much I've used the camera. As you can see, I've been busy...
You'll note that the Picture Gallery web pages have a very simple look to them - most of them just have pictures on the left side, going down, and most of these pages have no more than about 10 photos. This is to keep the load time short, and also they're less likely to overload browsers (especially older ones).
If you want to find out if I have a picture of you, you can go to the Cross-Reference List and look your name up. If you have any corrections for the Cross-Reference, please send them to me at the usual address, or post a note.
The latest development, as of about Feb 2002, is to shoot high-resolution photos (1280x960 on the Olympus, higher on the FUji), and post images cut down to 640x480 for convenient viewing on my screen. (I don't know how convenient it is on your screen, but they look great here...) Since I bought the Olympus in 1999, the cameras produce JPEGs directly. software. So, I've been taking more pictures, starting with NASFiC (see Conucopia's Website) where Pat Lawrence used my camera, and the conventions "Windycon 26" and "Loscon 26." At each of those two conventions I took over 200 pictures, and they're all here. Sometimes I take my camera to parties, where I may amuse myself by trying to get a picture of everyone attending the party. (A "complete set.")
As of mid-2002, I usually bring my laptop along to events and download the pictures to the laptop every day, so I don't really have to worry about running out of room in the camera with the high-resolution photos I've been shooting lately. Often I'll set up the laptop to run a slideshow of the pictures taken so far. I wrote my own Perl program to bring the pictures onto the computer, and assign them sequentially numbered subdirectories and filenames. I use "Irfanview" to preview the photos, turn them sideways if they were shot that way (Irfanview has an option to do that and to leave the original timestamp intact), and also run the slide show.
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