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

John:

I think you just got your investment back.  :)

I (like most parents)  have hundred of pics of my boys going back literally
to the moment of their birth.  You will be surprised at how precious those
pics will become in ten years.

Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 7:59 AM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: The cutest little guy (no not me!)


> >And yes, I am just an armature photographer.
>
> What, you haven't heard of armature photographers?
>
> Spellcheckers!  8-(
>
> John W. Colby
> www.colbyconsulting.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John Colby
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 10:49 AM
> To: AccessD
> 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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