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photographyall text & images © Pamela A Cross Click on thumbnails for full size images
Click on thumbnails for full size images So far I have not made the change from 35mm film to digital for my location photography. When I can get a digital camera which will give me both the same quality of photographs with an equal zoom and enough suitable photo storage for a trip of 10 days to 3 weeks during which I might easily take 20 - 30 rolls of 36 exposure 35mm film then I will be ready to make the change. Watching the quick moving development of digital cameras it seems that the time is not far ahead! In the second half of 2001 I invested in a Nikon 995 digital camera specifically for photographing my textile collection for the internet. I have yet to find the time to start this (major) task. Editing photographs on the computer for
presentation on computer, digital projection and on the web hold out very
exciting possibilities. In Click on thumbnails for full size images Printing photographs from computer editing is something which gives me considerable pleasure. Although I still have my first Epson Stylus 600 colour printer purchased in June 1997 I upgraded this in 2000 to an Epson Photo 1270 to take advantage of new technology giving longer, good quality print-life and also to be able to print up to A3 size prints. In May 2000 I launched my pacross.net web site with the intention of using it to share my interest in tribal textiles with other enthusiasts. Photo galleries of ethnic minorities, their textiles and textile skills became a major focus of the web site. I was surprised by the amount of worldwide interest generated in the site especially from a source I had not expected - the diaspora from Laos and Vietnam which settled in the United States and whose young people are now looking back to their cultural roots. The extent of the international interest, my own research and enthusiasm for the subject led me to want to develop the tribal textiles material further. The new 'info' domain name contributed to the decision to launch a new website: www.tribaltextiles.info on which to concentrate all current and future tribal textile material. This was launched on 6 January 2002 with the existing pacross.net tribal textile material and, once this has been picked up by the search engines the similar material will be removed from the pacross.net site. Once this has occurred I can then concentrate on
development of the new site. I still have considerable numbers of
photos which remain to be scanned and then used for new galleries - especially
material from Indonesia, Myanmar and South West China. New
visits to ethnic minorities will also be the basis for future expansion.
The web offers not only the possibility of presenting photos in a photo album
style but offers a unique means of linking photos in many diverse ways in a Click on thumbnails for full size images I have a considerable (and growing) textile collection which I hope to systematically photograph and then incorporate these photos into the Photo gallery library to further expand on the detail which can be seen in the photos taken in the field or to fill in gaps. Click on |
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