Some Hiking Shots

[David]

Finally developed and scanned the last of my hiking shots from the other week. These were all Adox 100, taken with my Pentax KX, using a Quantaray (Tamron) 70-300, Sigma 35-80, or Samyang 18-28. Mostly, I used the Tamron.

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These previous three were actually taken around my office, to finish off the roll after the hike.

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[maxcastle]

I particularly like number 6, almost expect neil young to appear! or laura ingalls!

[ForenSeil]

I like 3, 4 and 5 most. Why don't you upload them a little larger?

[David]

Thank you, both, for your comments. I enjoy knowing what people like because it validates (or brings into question) my own taste. I admit my favorite is 4.

I upload them that size because I'm too cheap to buy high-speed Internet and instead tether off my cell phone carrier's data connection. Sure it's 3G and all, but it still takes 18 hours to upload a video to YouTube and about 5 minutes to upload 5 megs pf photos to Picasa. So I size them all at 1,000 pixels (maximum dimension) and compress them to 10. That makes grayscale jpegs about 200K and color jpegs about 500K. Anything larger and it would take forever to upload all my photos. Plus, I have like 10,000 photos on my Picasa account hand still haven't broken 4GB.

I once e-mailed 64 camera phone images to myself and it took five days for the e-mail to leave my phone's imbox. Oops. I think my carrier puts the brakes on high-data-volume users' connection speeds.

[ForenSeil]

The horizontal pics are large enough but the vertical would benefit a lot from the ~double size.