Photography Details

Photographs displayed on this site were taken using the following equipment:

• Nikon N8008s (50mm f/1.8, 35-135mm f/3.5-4.5)
• Canon PowerShot S300 digital point/shoot
• Canon PowerShot G3 "prosumer" digital camera
• Nikon D-70 digital SLR (18-70mm f/3.5-4.5)

Film photographs were digitized either by using a flatbed scanner to read in a 4"x6" print, an HP ScanJet 3970 to directly scan the negative, or by scanning at processing time in the lab.

Post-processing was done using Adobe Photoshop 7.0, Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0, or The Gimp (The GNU Image Manipulation Program).

Site Information

This site was created on a Fedora Core 2 Linux box. Text editing was done using vi. Prototyping and testing was done using Mozilla 1.7.

The personal album and portfolio were generated using Dave Madison's album Perl script, a nifty tool which uses ImageMagick's convert tool to generate the thumbnails and medium-sized images from the original thumbnails. The themes are custom themes I coded specifically for this site.

The personal album uses JavaScript for the thumbnail display / scrolling and PHP to load the medium-sized images. The portfolio uses JavaScript for both thumbnail display / scrolling and medium-sized image loading.

There is a known bug in Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 that may cause difficultly in loading images from this site. Click here to download a patch if you use IE and are experiencing this problem.

Site History

This is the third incarnation of mongoosedog.net. Version 1 began in early 2002 as a weblog entitled "Hiding Among the Masses," which I had carried over from my personal home page at ee.cooper.edu. I also stored the entirety of my digital photo album, which became massively unwieldy and also drew a lot of traffic to the site.

Sometime around early 2003, I redesigned the weblog. I kept the original photo album design with the intent that I would eventually get around to giving it a makeover as well.

In September 2004, I decided to drastically reduce my online presence. I was using my weblog primarily to keep in touch with my friends who are now scattered across the four reaches of the globe, but I updated it about once a week at best and I figured I kept in touch with my closer friends through other means, anyway. My site was going in a different direction than I wanted it to--and I wanted it to be a place where I could exhibit my photography.

Version 3 of mongoosedog.net is a reflection of a month of work organizing my personal album, engaging in extreme editing and selection, and also for the first time including a dedicated portfolio for when I may decide to pursue freelance work. I decided to drop the weblog, although I may decide to include in the future some content management for the main page to provide site news and information.

For those who may have wondered about the cryptic message I left on the front page for the past month, I hope you didn't worry too much.