ASF Travel Photos

[2020hindsight]

OK how the hell do I reduce the photo? I need a tranquiliser with a elephant syrenge(?) to calm my frustrations!

Couple of Ways spring to mind...

1. using Explorer .. right click the photo and see what programs are available to "open with" - try each of them in turn
usually one of them permits "resize" ..
if not then you'll have to download something that DOES permit resize.

Most digital cameras are ridiculously big files , eg 3MB per photo and more.

(Other people have suggested various downloadable free programs that resize - check out some other threads - I believe even Joe has offered to resize and post for you (?)

2. another real easy way is as follows:-
Again using Explorer, right click the photo, select "send to "
then "mail recipient"
then send an email to yourself -
select the option "make photos smaller"
only trouble with this option, you don't have any control on the actual size ( not important tho) - and you'd possibly have to do it more than once to get down to less than 100kB, XXX WRONG lol - you can only do it once I suspect - next time it is as likely as not to get bigger

100MB max

should be 100kB max sorry XX wrong again lol - 92.8 kB

 

[2020hindsight]

this photo is only 160x120

PS this photo is entitled .. " Sydney-siders doing it tough during the drought!!"

PS you can also crop to reduce a photo.

 

[2020hindsight]

two photos each "large email size" 314 x 233 I think - according to "Microsoft Office Picture Manager"
Incidentally , 3 photos at 260 wide each would presumably fit into 800 width -hence side by side

When I come home I read these posts
then I take the dog for a walk / run, and she reads hers as well
(and I tell you, she NEVER misses a post.)
actually she often sings this song whilst she's sniffing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLFAyw-5Rp8 (what's the buzz)

 

[GreatPig]

OK how the hell do I reduce the photo?

Use something like Irfanview.

Cheers,
GP

 

[Stan 101]

The best tool to resize images on the fly that I have found is here
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Once you install the image resizer, you simply right click on the image and the option comes up to resize... You can even make a custom size... Works very well with my underwater shots..

Keep the photos coming Joe Blow. I looked over this site and remembered walking through the into the old city of Talin... I very nearly jumped on a plane yesterday...I miss that place and would love to see it in the winter... Have a great trip!

 

[2020hindsight]

some "old rocks" scattered around one of Sydney's parks
- ahh if only they could talk

as they say, Europe is 90% history and 10% geography (the alps excluded )
USA is 90% geography and 10% history
and AUS is 10% history, 10% geography , 40% fosters , and 40% tooheys.

 

[imajica]

Me tackling the Fly By Wire - Queenstown - to the extreme!



The beginning..........

suspended via cable you are towed backwards up a massive cliff

then you hit the throttle and you fly down at around 160km/h

an amazing experience - when you turn you experience a brief moment of zero gravity!

 

[imajica]

view from Franz Josef Glacier after being dropped off by helicopter

 

[2020hindsight]

gr8 shot imajica, gee you'd swear that was the sea , "surf's up"

 

[3 veiws of a secret]

January 2006 overtook this guy from Udaipur >Mumbai .The Sikh driver was wrapped up to the hilt with sunny's . We must have overtaken this guy 4 times in our 16 hour journey to Mumbai .....anyway notice all of us driving in the middle of the road......not just to miss the cows but traffic travelling towards us on the wrong side .....India just is!

 

[2020hindsight]

anyway notice all of us driving in the middle of the road......not just to miss the cows but traffic travelling towards us on the wrong side .....India just is!

LOL = hahaha , must be interesting; lol, good one 3 views .
(ps I think I mentioned this to you personally once b4, but what the hek .. reminds me of Mekong R Bridge , alias Friendship bridge between Laos and Thailand - Australian Aid project, opened by Keating - anyway
they drive on left in Thailand, on right in Laos -
and
down the middle of the road is a railway line lol.
(maybe you could confirm since I guess you've been there recently )

PS I suspect that a traffic engineer would expain that there are ways around this - like underpasses etc at each end - and I think that's what they did - but still , doesn't stop me telling that story, lol.

PS that car looks like something out of a demolition derby

PPS . ref Rahjahstan ( which in fact is posted after this ) - BRILLIANT photos man

 

[3 veiws of a secret]

Rahjahstan Jan 2006 I think somebody posted a picture re Red Fort ,but I think the correct location is Amber ,just outside Jaipur ? this garden is just sheer decadence .......
2020hindsight many thanks for your efforts silly me should have asked my son!!!!!!! stubborn YES ,stoopid YES......haaaaa but I got the knack! Thankee
PS : top picture see the 3 shadows I'm in the middle

 

[3 veiws of a secret]

2020 ....Laos Thailand Cambodia coming up next during school holidays .....I mentioned to my wife she can go to UK to visit mum ....I'm taking the kids to S America!!!!!! she's not happy! Re Smashed car had difficulty in getting the right lens on and the rear window was dirty ! apologises

 

[3 veiws of a secret]

Last attempt tonight I tried to download a mpeg movie of me and twins jumping into a waterfall from 9 metres,in Goa ,the french guy that took us there was a real trailblazer! anyway more boring photos of how the Royalty squeezed the poor to have there tit-bits...Udaipur ....Sorry I liked this place !

 

[new girl]

When I come home I read these posts
then I take the dog for a walk / run, and she reads hers as well
(and I tell you, she NEVER misses a post.)
actually she often sings this song whilst she's sniffing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLFAyw-5Rp8 (what's the buzz)

Such a faithful dog!!you should sign her up with ASF, don't you think

ps: I'm sure she only follows the posts you walk past, lucky you

 

[2020hindsight]

more boring photos of how the Royalty squeezed the poor to have there tit-bits

3 views, the last photo looks like something out of Wizard of Id
PS I notice you have 4 photos - just trying an experiment here (try for 5 )
-note that 5 (not 3) is max number of photos if they can stack like this
(I personally used 260 wide)
photos of Murray R near Mildura - 6 months ago ( when there was plenty of water) - that river is the curviest damned thing you ever did see
also of Stanwell Tops - (from Bald Hill)- the new Lawrence Hargrave "SeaCliffe Bridge" in the distance - but barely visible
Also my dog ..."you sure you dont want to play ?" - PS this was last Xmas , just after she'd got her new toy, lol (yep ng - she's a gr8 dog - but - her mother is a real bitch lol)

 

[new girl]

3 views, the last photo looks like something out of Wizard of Id
PS I notice you have 4 photos - just trying an experiment here (try for 5 )
-note that 5 (not 3) is max number of photos if they can stack like this
(I personally used 260 wide)
photos of Murray R near Mildura - 6 months ago ( when there was plenty of water) - that river is the curviest damned thing you ever did see
also of Stanwell Tops - (from Bald Hill)- the new Lawrence Hargrave "SeaCliffe Bridge" in the distance - but barely visible
Also my dog ..."you sure you dont want to play ?" - PS this was last Xmas , just after she'd got her new toy, lol (yep ng - she's a gr8 dog - but - her mother is a real bitch lol)

hey 2020, post a picture of the owner please

 

[CanOz]

hey 2020, post a picture of the owner please

Hehehe, are you on the hunt New Girl?

 

[new girl]

3 views, the last photo looks like something out of Wizard of Id
PS I notice you have 4 photos - just trying an experiment here (try for 5 )
-note that 5 (not 3) is max number of photos if they can stack like this
(I personally used 260 wide)
photos of Murray R near Mildura - 6 months ago ( when there was plenty of water) - that river is the curviest damned thing you ever did see
also of Stanwell Tops - (from Bald Hill)- the new Lawrence Hargrave "SeaCliffe Bridge" in the distance - but barely visible
Also my dog ..."you sure you dont want to play ?" - PS this was last Xmas , just after she'd got her new toy, lol (yep ng - she's a gr8 dog - but - her mother is a real bitch lol)

This dog looks too relaxed to play, may be you should go for a walk on your own or with your wife. I have to say, she looks like a clean and brilliant dog well done 2020.

ps the photos are beautiful too, you're right the river is curvey and I can barely see the bridge, is that you flying that thing?

 

[2020hindsight]

hey 2020, post a picture of the owner please

lol - there's one bak there on Truk ... but since then I've had..
several shaves, and
about 200 haircuts lol.
code .. "there's been a bit of water under the bridge since then "

I can tell you a couple of stories about Micronesia though (Palau rather than Truk / Saipan / Yap etc)...

http://www.micronesia.com/
The Federated States of Micronesia is a group of self-governing islands within the geographical area of Micronesia. The four states--Kosrae, Pohnpei (formerly Ponape), Chuuk (formerly Truk), and Yap were formerly part of the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and will become an independent nation by the year 2000. The Marshall Islands will constitute another nation while the Marianas, which include Guam, Saipan and Tinian, will remain United States territories.

History ..Ferdinand Magellan landed on Guam in 1521, beginning two centuries of Spanish domination in Micronesia. Germany purchased the islands from Spain in 1898.
The Japanese occupied Micronesia in 1914 and in 1920 received the islands as a League of Nations mandate. U.S. forces captured the islands during World War II and, in 1947 they became part of the U.S. Trust Territory. In 1979 the islands became self-governing as the Federated States of Micronesia. In 1986 the
Micronesian islands assumed free-association status with the U.S. and will become independent nations by the year 2000

1. they used to be Spanish around 1521; then German 1898; then Japanese territory after WW1; but then became US after WW2 !! - talk about a confused territory, lol.
2. the USA really "won em over" by blowing up atomic bombs on Bikini Atoll (many years before the French did in Muraroa)
3. The locals in Micronesia don't seem to have quite forgiven them ( my feeling whilst there) When I was in Palau, the USA had bult a big hotel, but the locals refused to work there. - It lay idle for years!

and another story (Ripley's believe it or not lol)...

4. I used to come home late from a night's entertainment, boat was anchored about 100m off shore, I'd "divest myself" of clothes, wallet, watch etc - other than undies, - and swim out to the boat at eg 1am. - then I'd row ashore, get wallet, watch etc, return to boat, sleep. Was easier than waking up the rest of the crew
5. did this for a week or so. I think there was an abatoir nearby.
6. I flew out (they got a new crewmember). Lady beside me on plane was a marine biologist - said - "Oh there was a man taken by a salt water croc down near where your boat is" ... turns out that there are heaps of crocs. Glad I didnt keep it up for 2 weeks lol.

Canaussieuck lol - like I say - I'm old enough to be her dad

PS Some photos of Magellan's grave / cross - on Mactan Island - near Cebu, Philippines - Altough he's credited with first circumnavigation - he didn't personally make it - just (some of ) his crew.
also some bloke who's been playin around with hanggliders.

PS 1521 !! = almost 500 years ago - Capt Cook etc were such newboys on the block