Europe
includes Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Great Britain, Italy and Scandinavia
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Welcome to
Gary Strait's Home Page |
USA
includes New England, New York State, Washington DC, Florida, Rocky Mountains and California
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Spend a few minutes and let me take you on a tour of some of the most
interesting places I've discovered in some of the 17 countries and 41 US
states that I've visited. |
Creation of this page:
- I entered the HTML markup manually with a text editor.
This page is still in the same basic, simple style I originally created
in 1996, and was designed for the lower speed internet connections of that
time, as well as for limited file space available to me on my ISP.
- All photos are my own; the earlier ones were scanned onto floppy disk
by Seattle Filmworks
from 35mm color slides, mostly Kodachrome. I also tried the Kodak Picture
Disk format (not the CD version), but wasn't pleased with the results,
Seattle Filmworks did a better, but still less than stellar, job; both
services emphasize cost, not quality. It's been a while since I've tried
either, and they probably have improved their process since they both now
return pictures on CDs that shouldn't require the high compression (and
loss of quality) necessary on the older floppy disk format.
Newer pictures (Scandinavia and Italy) were scanned by an
HP Photo Smart Scanner, which produces better results than either of
the others (I plan eventually to re-scan some of the older pictures).
- I've removed all the mailto links to avoid spam email address
collection (if you want to email me, you'll have to manually type the
address).
- My latest addition is pictures of my 2000 trip to
Italy, and a re-vamp of my Scandinavia pictures to the newer format I used
for Italy (however for the moment no longer driven by a cgi script).
These pages are getting out of date, I still
haven't posted a description of my 1999 trip across the US and Canada to
Alaska, my short 2001 visit to Germany, my 2002 return to Switzerland, or
my 2003 vacation in Ireland. I hope to get these added to the site
someday.
Created June 9, 1996
Updated February 18, 2004
Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Gary Strait all rights reserved.
email: garystrait@earthlink.net