[AccessD] OT: The cutest little guy (no not me!)

lovely kid john

martin

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "AccessD" <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 3:48 PM
Subject: [AccessD] OT: The cutest little guy (no not me!)


> Just thought you folks might like to meet my son Robbie.  As many of you
> know I am a foster dad.  I have put up pictures of him on my web site.
> Click on the "Meet my son" button.  The thumbnails are very small so they
> should load quickly.  The actual pics are 800x600 and average about 175k
so
> if you are on dialup, beware.  It will probably take about 30 seconds to
> load a pic over dialup, over cable or DSL probably just a couple of
seconds.
>
> This may be the cutest kid in Connecticut so take a gander.
>
> Taken with a Cannon A70 3.2 mpixel digital camera at the highest
resolution
> (2048 x 1536), placed in JPEG format by the camera at a "very fine"
> compression level.  To drop the file size for the Web, as well as solve a
> problem with the display image being huge, I then used Photoshop to drop
the
> pixel count to 800 x 600, keeping the auto resolution at "best".  The
> resulting image is pretty good considering the machinations it has gone
> through.
>
> A digital camera is a great investment if you like to take photographs.  I
> also bought a cannon S820 photo printer and I must say the printed
> photographs are stunning on Cannon high gloss paper.  I can print 8x10s
that
> look like they came from a photo lab.
>
> Taken together, the printer, a 128 mbyte memory card to replace the
pitiful
> 8 mbyte card that comes with the camera, and a Maha charger and 8 2200 mah
> batteries to feed the beast, I must say it isn't cheap.  However I can now
> take ~76 photos at the highest resolution, and print them immediately if
> they are good enough to put on paper.
>
> Someday I may get my investment back, but just the ability to get the
photos
> in my computer, email them to friends, share them with you guys via my web

> page, and print them for the odd person with no computer (mom?) makes it
all
> worth while.  I took a ton of photos of a friend's child's birthday and
just
> dropped them on a CD.  Most photo labs can print from CDs now.
>
> Anyway, check the little boy out and tell me what you think - of him and
of
> the photos.  And yes, I am just an armature photographer.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.colbyconsulting.com
>
>
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