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Rights, usage, terms ...

Click on the following link to view our rights, terms, usage and copyright policies.

Site design ...

This site utilizes frames, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), high quality graphics, JavaScript and Flash. HotDog Professional version 6.0 and UNIX vi are used to do the mark-up. The background and buttons are done using Adobe Creative Suite and Jasc Paint Shop Pro.

All of the site design work is done on an Acer H243H 24" LCD connected to an IBM ThinkPad W500 series laptop. Monitor profiling and calibration is done using the datacolor Spyder3 Elite (Gamma 2.2 WP 6500K). Scanning is done using an HP ScanJet 2P connected to a home-built AMD Athlon 1100Mhz PC sporting a Philips 19" monitor, STB Voodoo3 video card w/16MB, 256MB of memory, a CD-ROM and CD-RW and a 30GB hard drive.

With the exception of contributed photos, all photographs were taken with a Minolta Maxxum 7D, Sony A900 and Sony DSC-D770 digital cameras and a Nikon film camera. All photographs are edited and converted for Web viewing using Adobe Creative Suite (CS3, CS5) with various plug-ins.

Video, with the exception of contributed video content, was taken with a Contour+ point-of-view (POV) 1080p HD video camera. Editing and conversion were done with FFmpeg on Kubuntu Linux.

Viewing this site ...

Due to the graphics intensive nature of this site it is best viewed on a large monitor (17"+) with the resolution set no lower than 1024x768 and the color set no lower then 65K colors. The photographs are best viewed with a browser that supports Color Management. Most images on this site have an imbeded sRGB ICC profile for viewing on the Web. Click on the following link for more information on color management enabled browsers. Image sizes vary with some reaching 100-250K so a high speed Internet connection is also recommended. The minimum recommended Internet connection speed for consistant video playback is 1.5 Mb/s cable or DSL.