This gallery contains all the photos I took in the Complex Systems Summer School 2004 in Santa Fe. As there were several people with digital cameras doing an excellent job on photographing all the participants, I decided to save my few rolls of film for my own adventures. Or something like that :) Anyway, you'll find links to digicam galleries by other people from my galleries page.
Gallery is organized thematically. The chronological order of pictures can be deduced from filenames, e.g. csss04_027.jpg is the 27th photo.
Hint for using the gallery: clicking on a thumbnail gives you (obviously) the larger version of the picture. Then, clicking on the larger version, you can also get the full size 80% quality JPG.
Photos on paper were magically converted to bits and bytes by a scanner which was neither mine nor working well, so you'll notice quite a heavy distortion on some full size photos, the worst being the photo of skyrail in Frankfurt. The problem affected about every third photo (I was scanning them three at a time and it happened in one corner of the plate) and worsened during scanning (I was really taking the most of the scanner, as I was in a real hurry. Luckily it didn't burst into flames :), but I noticed the quality degradation only later when editing the photos and therefore couldn't do much about it. So, when you notice "unpleasant quantization" on some photos, then it's not because of the JPG's quality (80 is fine), but technical problems. Some dust and other artefacts on the scanner plate and photo surfaces were also scanned in. I removed the most disturbing dust, but some remained, as removing it is a pixel level work and I didn't find it reasonable to spend too much of my precious time on that. And if you are wondering why I didn't use a FILM scanner, then... Well, neither me nor my friends currently have one, and the photo labs take quite a lot of money for good quality scanning.
If you have any specific requests (e.g. getting full size TIFF's, rescanning some photos, getting a special link page for mass downloading the photos, or whatever), then let me know and I'll think about it.
Comments and constructive critique about everything are always welcome! (you'll find my e-mail address on the front page of my webpage)
Well then, happy browsing :)
