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photos
This is a selection of
images collected at the CAPTION96 comics convention (in the
summer of 1996).
Attentive readers will have noticed that there is almost a
year-long gap between the con and the photo album. This is partly
explained by the amount a manual labour involved in scanning all
those 7×5 photos on my none-too-fast scanner and moving the
files from the Mac with the scanner to the Linux box with all my
web site stuff on.
Update:
With the creation of the CAPTION
web site, this album has moved home and in the process has been
redesigned with a less archaic look.
Update (23 April 2010):
I have created a new version of the CAPTION96 album on my
Ancient Photo Albums site.
I took almost 200 pictures of small-press-comics folk
at the convention
EuroCAPTION97. Here's
the finished album,
with many of the duff pictures discarded.
Update:
With the creation of the CAPTION
web site, this album has moved home and in the process has been
redesigned with a less archaic look.
Fifteen of us hired Roch Castle in west Wales for a week in
late October 1998. I had to leave early, so on my last day there
Jeremy gave me a disposable camera to take a few snaps of the outside of the castle.
The first project meeting of the SEAHORSE 2 project was held
in Bologna, in northen Italy, on 22 and 23 October 1998. I took
the camera with me and took
some photos of Bologna.
Holiday snaps from Aviemore.
The Scottish village of Aviemore is best known as a skiing resort.
My ex Alex’s parents have a time-share on a lodge there
which this year they were not using, so Jeremy, Alex, Adrian
and I (Damian) headed up to Scotland for a week spent
walking in the forest around the nearby
Loch an Eilein and Loch Morlich.
Update (2 April 2007).
I have
migrated this album to Flickr.
The Flickr version also uses 100-dpi rather than 75-dpi scans of the original
paper photographs.
It is a tradition of Caption that the photos of the event take
months if not years to appear. This year is no exception—I am
still working on indexing the pictures nicely... but the first
cut of my Caption 2001
photo album is now on-line, and not before time. I’m even
trying to munge several of the photos together in to animations.
I have now converted the photo albums
(Aviemore, Roch
Castle, and Bologna) on my old site
(http://www.alleged.demon.co.uk/)
to go on
the new site (http://www.alleged.org.uk/). In the process I have ripped out the old
HTMLgen code that generated them and replaced it with the more
streamlined TclHTML equivalent (using the code I concocted
when building the photo albums on the
CAPTION site). As a result,
the last vestiges of the old Alleged look and feel
(with the tabbed-notebook style) is gone! I guess it must
be time for a redesign, then... :-)
There is long tradition of celebrating the First of May, called
Beltane by pagan types. In Oxford, choirboys greet the rising sun by
singing from Magdalen College tower, while the townsfolk gather below
on Magdalen Bridge. For the last few years the bridge has been closed
to the public (citing structural weakness in the bridge). This year
we were allowed back on the bridge again. I borrowed Jeremy’s
newest digital camera for the occasion and took some photos.
While at Ramsgate (last weekend)
I bought a disposable camera to take snaps of all the
aforementioned relatives. Today I went to collect them to
discover that they had been swapped with someone else’s
snapshots taken at a family gathering! Given that the photos
are developed centrally at some Kodak facility, my photos could
be anywhere in the country... They have a system for coping
with this—a fill-in form listing 150-odd subjects that
might be in your photos (town, holiday, beach, garden, cat, dog,
horse, wedding (specify colour of bridesmaids’ dresses),
..., nude/topless, ...). Let’s hope they can find them
based on my very vague description.
More
snapshots of my nephew Darren (my brother’s been
upgrading his web site).
Photos from
CAPTION 2002 by
Matt
Brooker,
David
Goodman, and Matthew
Lawrenson. Jeremy’s workshop
report also has photos of the participants at work.
My brother
Mike Cugley has put up another
bunch of photos of his son Darren. Here’s one of Dad,
my sister Rachel, Mike, Darren and me in Dad and Josie’s
garden in Ramsgate.
This week’s weekly strip
was slightly delayed because Jeremy did a photo tour of
Brighton’s derelict West Pier instead.
This is especially topical since the other pier
recently caught fire just a short time after part of the West
Pier fell in to the sea in a storm...
This Semptember we went to visit my mother
Jenny in her home in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull.
I took with me my brand new camera and
took some photos from Tobermory (and the
journeys to and from).
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Yesterday I spotted a modified hoarding on Cowley Road that
deserved recording, so today when we went out for lunch I took
my digital camera and some fresh batteries. They even lasted
long enough for me to take a few snaps of
early crocuses in the Oxford Botanical Garden.
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I was rather impressed by the elaborate graffito underneath Donnington
Bridge last summer. It has now been overpainted. Here are some
photos of Donnington Bridge before and after.
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I have updated the style sheets for my Ancient Photo Albums
because Jeremy linked to them and I realized they had an old-timey non-responsive stylesheet.
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