How to Navigate these Photos

This website runs on SPARC/Solaris 9 Netra servers and is tested with the free Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 browser on a SPARCstation client running Solaris 8 with a 1600x1200 display, and with Mozilla Firebird 0.7 on a PC client running Windows 2000 with an 1152x864 display. Firebird versions earlier than 0.6.1 do not work with Javascript reliably.

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These photos are arranged with the Webmagick 2.01 software. Click on the blue arrows to navigate within directories:

select the parent directory
select the next page or picture
select the previous page or picture

The preview pages exploit Javascript to ease navigation, although they also work less conveniently if Javascript is missing or not enabled. If you are having problems, try disabling or enabling Javascript; under Netscape Navigator 4.7, for instance, you would do this in Edit/Preferences/Advanced.

For the oldest directories, there is no readme page as described below, just an index of 106x79 "thumbnail" photos. Click on the thumbnail you are interested in to see the original full-size source photo. Depending on the browser, Print or Save As may not work as you expect. To print or download a source photo, go to the "ls.html" file - in the Address bar near the top of the browser, substitute "ls.html" for "index.html" or "indexjs.html". The ls.html file is a text listing of photos; click on the one of interest, and it will be displayed in a form suitable for Print or Save As. These directories, prepared with version 1 of Webmagick, work better with many browsers when Javascript is disabled.

For recent directories, the first file you will see is the readme page which displays one representative photo and links to these photo indexes:

The preview photo index page containing medium-scale photos in resolutions up to 960x480, suitable for web previewing.
The source photo index page containing the original photos in resolutions up to 2048x1536, suitable for printing or downloading.

The readme also contains links to the "ls.html" text indices for the preview and source pages. In some older readme pages I provided an option to have the preview and source pages appear in separate browser windows, but navigating these is tricky and confusing and may cause the browser to crash.

The preview page is divided into four frames:

The top frame contains one line of small-size thumbnail photos and thumbnail navigation arrows.
The left middle frame contains icons for
- the parent directory
- Configurable frame layout
The right middle frame contains navigation arrows for the medium-size web-previewing photos.
The lower frame contains the medium-size web-previewing photos, up to 960x480.

The preview page can also be navigated simply from its ls.html text index.

The source page does not permit viewing thumbnails and source photos at once. The thumbnails are arrayed in pages of 24. Click on the thumbnail to view the corresponding source. The source page can also be navigated simply from its ls.html text listing.

Thus there are three sizes of photos:

Up to 160x160 small size thumbnails, visible in rows of six. If there are more than six thumbnail photos in an index, there will be navigation arrows above the thumbnails to move left or right among them. Clicking on a thumbnail displays the medium-size preview photo below it, or the large-size source photo alone.
Up to 960x480 web-preview photos, visible one at a time in the preview page with six thumbnails above.
Up to 2048x1536 large size original source photos, as produced by a camera or scanner, in the source page, suitable for printing or downloading.

Corresponding to an original source photo p1010001.jpg, there is a medium-sized web-previewing photo with a name like p1010001f.jpg and p1010001r.jpg in landscape or portrait orientations respectively.

To print or download, after selecting a thumbnail - say for p1010001r.jpg - click on the thumbnail to view the medium-sized photo, then go to the source page to find the corresponding thumbnail for p1010001.jpg; click on that thumbnail to get the full-sized photo; then select File/Print or File/Save As. Or from the readme page, go to the source text index and click on the p1010001.jpg.

Configurable frame layout allows you to set up the format of the preview page from among four general options, including the number of columns and rows of thumbnails per page. Be aware that Javascript is required and cookies are used to record your choices. This feature seems to work with SPARC/Solaris Netscape 4.78 and WIN98SE Internet Explorer 5.0. This feature does not seem to work with Firebird 0.7, Mozilla 1.4, or Netscape 4.75. The most useful configurable option for computers with small screens seems to be to choose the upper left format (no thumbnails and medium-size photos at the same time) and enter the number for columns (perhaps 4) and rows (perhaps 3) and click Save. Then the preview page shows only thumbnails, and you click on one to get its corresponding medium-sized photo.

I am still learning about Webmagick, frames, and Javascript, and their obscure interactions with various browsers. Please report dead links or other problems to web AT oakapple.net.

Webmagick 2.01, the program that sets up photo indexes, only runs on Unix-like systems. There is no comparable software for Windows or MacOS before X. Once set up, since the indexes are written to use HTML and Javascript, they run on any system with a web browser.

The photos on this website were taken with various cameras at various typical resolutions:

Since 2003: Olympus D520Z (1024x768) and C3040Z (2048x1536).
2001-2003: Olympus D510Z (1024x768) and C3040Z (2048x1536).
2000-2001: Olympus D460Z (640x480).
1999-2000: Olympus D400Z (640x480).
1998-1999: Sony Mavica FD7 (640x480).
1997-1998: Olympus D110L (640x480).
1979-1997: Minolta XD11, mostly Kodachrome 64, scanned at 900dpi.
1972-1979: Kowa 35mm, mostly Kodachrome 64, scanned at 900dpi.