THE PHOTO ARCHIVE.....

My photo, Prague Castle Gardens
          WARNING: IN Internet Explorer6, the default is to "automatically resize" photos to fit in the browser. This  can harm picture quality. Go to the TOOLS menu on your browser, then the INTERNET OPTIONS menu selection, then the ADVANCED tab. Scroll down to the MULTIMEDIA section and uncheck the box "enable automatic resizing of pictures."

Of course, you may also find that some of the pictures are too large to view comfortably  in a browser window. Best solution for the really large ones:  for those with browsers that are up to date that support this function, like IE 6, right click on the photo and choose the menu item  "zoom out" for perspective.  Also, you could download the photo to your hard drive, view them in some viewing utility (like Vueprint at http://www.hamrick.com   where you can resize in stages with a touch of the page down key, and do other manipulations with one touch as well.  Another popular viewer which has associated programs and more features, but is not quite so simple as a viewer is Irfan. Irfan is free. As monitors have gotten larger and modems faster, the byte size and pixel size of the new scans has increased. Improved scan quality is the result, but there is a price to pay for everything. I like to upload "big" these days. It is easy to make it smaller, but the reverse is not true and the ability to see details in the larger shots makes it all worthwhile.

Welcome to my photo archive. Many of the photos are wine related, but frankly the other travel shots are better! I include both. Click on the links below to go to indices of full color, high resolution jpg images. The first page you go to is an index. The photos are not "in line" in order to save initial download time. You can pick and choose what you actually want to see. The "new" icon indicates images added in the most recent updates (some of them are recently taken, some are just newly added to the site).

Many of the photos are included because they are interesting or beautiful. Hopefully, this is the majority. Admittedly, some are there just because I was there.  They are best used as wallpaper. They just  show what something is like, or they provide some atmosphere, like the roadsigns in Burgundy or the pictures of grapes in McLaren Vale.

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  • Europe (except France): Travel Photos  
  • France: Travel Photos 
  • Asia and Other regions: Travel Photos   3/13/08 Israel
  • People and Me, Wine events     3/13/08
  • USA: Travel Photos  
  • Wine Related Photos Israel 3/13/08

    WARNING: IN Internet Explorer, the default is to "automatically resize" photos to fit in the browser. This  can harm picture quality. Go to the TOOLS menu on your browser, then the INTERNET OPTIONS menu selection, then the ADVANCED tab. Scroll down to the MULTIMEDIA section and uncheck the box "enable automatic resizing of pictures."

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