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Change Log | |
April 15, 2006 | Has it really been a year since I added new photos to the gallery; note to self: update more often! Added 71 new photos in various galleries, including two new galleries "Mono Lake" and "Valley of Fire" . |
Sep 21, 2005 | Added an on-line shop for the fine art limited edition prints I will be selling at The Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County's Open Studios Art Tour 2005 |
April 23, 2005 | Added new photos to the "Man-made", "Water", "Tahoe" and "Yosemite" galleries (23 in total) |
Feb 13, 2005 | Updated the Noise Reduction Article to add 4 new tools and 2 updated tools. The conclusions were consequently changed. |
Dec 31, 2004 | Added 32 new photos in various galleries, including a new gallery "Joshua Tree". |
Aug 26, 2004 | Huge update: added 4 new galleries in "other places" and 9 new galleries in "national parks" - about 150 new photos in total. |
April 7, 2004 | Completely new website design, powered by Coppermine Photo Gallery, which should make updating a lot easier and therefore frequent (manually editing separate Flash and HTML versions made me less inclined to update the site!) |
Nov 10, 2003 | Updated the Noise Reduction Article to add 1 new tool. The conclusions were consequently changed. |
Aug 2, 2003 | Updated the Noise Reduction Article to add 5 new tools and update 2 others to newer versions. The conclusions were consequently changed. |
July 12, 2003 | Added 9 photographs: one to "nature", two to "land", three to "sky" and three to "man-made" |
May 6, 2003 | Added 8 photographs: three to "nature", three to "land", one to "sky" and one to "man-made" |
Mar 26, 2003 | Added a new photography gallery: Big Sur (6 new photographs, 3 moved from existing galleries) |
Jan 7, 2003 | Added 7 photographs: three to "water", two to "land" and two to "sky" |
Nov 16, 2002 | Added a new photography gallery: Ghost Towns (6 photographs) |
Nov 14, 2002 | Added two more products to the noise reduction article (DCE AutoEnhance and Fred Miranda ISOx). |
Nov 8, 2002 | Finished the noise reduction article. |
Oct 30, 2002 | Updated the noise reduction article based on feedback and tested a few more products. |
Oct 28, 2002 | Added the first half of my first article "A comparison of noise reduction tools" (DHTML only). |
Oct 21, 2002 | Updated the Flash site with all new photography galleries that use Flash 6's ability to load external JPGs instead embedding them, which has greatly reduced the inital load time of the Flash galleries |
Oct 17, 2002 | Added a new photography gallery: Death Valley (15 photographs) |
Oct 9, 2002 | Added camera and exposure information to the photography galleries - DHTML only, Flash version coming soon |
Sept 18, 2002 | Added 5 photographs: one to "yosemite", one to "kings canyon" and three to "tahoe" |
Sept 9, 2002 | Added a new photography gallery: Lone Pine (13 photographs) |
August 16, 2002 | Added 5 photographs: one to "man-made", two to "nature", one to "kings canyon" and one to "land" |
July 30, 2002 | Updated Flash version to match the new organization Changed menu systems on the DHTML version again Added 6 photographs: three to "sky", one to "nature", one to "lake tahoe" and one to "land" |
July 10, 2002 | Added a new photography gallery: Kings Canyon (7 photographs) |
July 8, 2002 | No new content, but I changed the menu system on the DHTML version to be more flexible and similar to the Flash version. I also reorganized the Photography section, creating some new location-specific galleries. The Flash version will be updated to the new organization soon. |
June 20, 2002 | Added 3 photographs: two to "man-made" and one to "water" |
June 7, 2002 | Added 3 photographs: one to "man-made", one to "nature" and one to "land" |
May 29, 2002 | Added 3 photographs: one to "man-made", one to "nature" and one to "land" |
April 29, 2002 | Added 7 photographs to the "water" section from a recent trip to Yosemite and Lake Tahoe |
April 23, 2002 | Added 5 photographs to the "sky" section from a recent trip to Yosemite and Lake Tahoe |
April 22, 2002 | Added 6 photographs to the "land" section from a recent trip to Yosemite and Lake Tahoe |
April 2, 2002 | Added the original versions of the photographs to the DHTML site |
March 29, 2002 | Added a new Photoshop image |
March 26, 2002 | Added the animation gallery to the Flash site |
March 25, 2002 | Moved to my own domain: www.michaelalmond.com |
March 19, 2002 | Added 6 photographs, 1 Photoshop image Updated DHTML site to a design similar to the Flash site |