ABOUT THIS SITE

I want to thank all the people who nagged me ceaselessly, wanting to see the website, none more loudly than Nikola Ivanov who just happened to be on the trip with me. Dry your eyes Kolyo, it’s here.

Constructing this site was a 7-month process involving scanning, editing, optimizing and captioning over 250 photos, typing out my journal entries from the trip, designing and re-designing the site structure, testing the site in various browsers and at various connection speeds, etc. It's far from perfect, but it works.

Sitting on commuter trains for 3 hours a day helped focus my efforts as did having various laptop computers at my disposal. Along the way I did manage to find time for other pursuits including organizing and enjoying a rafting trip in Costa Rica for myself and 3 friends. Procrastination? Well, maybe a little.

TECH STUFF:

Computers used: Apple PowerBook G3 292MHz “Wall Street”, Apple PowerBook G3 400MHz FireWire “Pismo/2000”, Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium 400MHz. All running either Mac OS 9.1, 9.2.2, or OS X.1.x.

Software used: Adobe Photoshop 6 and 7, Macromedia FireWorks 4, Graphic Converter 4.x, Adobe GoLive 5 & 6, I-View Media Pro 4.x, BBEdit Lite 6.x, Microsoft Word 1998, 2001 and “X”, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x, Netscape Navigator 4.7.x and 6.x.

PHOTOGRAPHY:

I shot the 4” x 6” pictures with the excellent Yashica T4 Super Weatherproof point-and-shoot.

The panoramics were taken with the amazing Hasselblad Xpan.

http://www.xpan.com

Films I used: Kodak Porta 400 VC, Kodak Supra 400, Fuji Press 800

In addition to his point-and-shoot, Nik had a disposable Kodak Max HQ camera which uses a surprisingly well-engineered lens.

Andrea had a SONY digicam.