Welcome to MadPhotographer.Com

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I take a lot of pictures. I used to take a lot more, and it became a rather expensive hobby. I used to always get duplicates of all the pictures and give them away to folks, which made this domain name highly appropriate.

I don't do that so much anymore. I still enjoy taking pictures, but expenses have led to not taking as many, and now that I have a scanner, I've just started putting the better ones online, and saving actual prints for special pictures and for what I can print out from my printer.

If you want to acquire copies of some of these pictures, feel free to email me, but I've always been bad about getting copies to people, even those who want to give me money.

Note about me: Generally I find myself doing event photography. I like and am frustrated by capturing the right moment. I do have plans for more abstract albums, but I'm not feeling a pressing need for any landscape photography right now.

Note about the albums: Most of these albums use thumbnails that are 150 pixels in their larger dimension (height or width appropriately). I think this is a reasonable compromise between page load time and ability to actually get an idea of if you want to look at the picture. I've only just started to make my default picture size 800 pixels in the largest dimension; many of the older pictures are as large as they were first scanned, minus whatever cropping I felt the need to do. Some thumbnails are at 100.

For those of you looking for my Folsom Street Faire or other pictures of a similar nature, I have a seperate Naughtier Pictures page now, just for them.

The Albums

• Newest! Dickens Christmas Fair '05.Much fun on the streets of Charles Dickens' London.
• New-ish Halloween '05 Dance events. Well, at the moment, 2/3rds of them.
• News! Naughtier pictures. R and R-themed pictures, now in their own home...
• Fair Oaks Renaissance Faire '05. Just a few pics from the Faire.
• Baycon '05. Pictures from the premier Bay Area Science Fiction convention, held on Memorial Day weekend.
• The PEERS Moulin Rouge Ball. Not many pics, I admit.
• Some scans I did recntly, of pictures I took a while ago. Added 2 new pictures.
• Liz and Jeff's handfasting. Liz and Jeff are cool people.
• Renaissance Pleasure Faire - North, 2003. Part one. More to come.
• Heart of the Forest Faire 2003. Some shots from a small large faire.
• Dickens Christmas Faire 2002. Just a list of links for now - I'll be adding more pictures soon, and thumbnails.
• Valhalla Renaissance Faire 2000. A link to my Valhalla page, where things are a bit more categorized.
• Monsters of Swing 2000. This will take you to the main MoS2k page, where you can check out the individual pages later.
• Bard of the Mists 1998 competition and feast.
• Pictures from around the Alviso Slough. Taken on NYE 1999.
• More Alviso Slough pictures. These were taken in the summer, so there's a bit more color. No thumbnails, just relatively small pictures.
• Renaissance Pleasure Faire North 1998.
• Miscellaneous pictures. Random pictures that I wanted to keep around. No thumbnails.
• More Miscellaneous pictures. More random pictures.

About my equipment (err...camera equipment, that is): I've used a Canon Elan IIe, with a Canon 380EX flash, and some mid-range lenses. I've used a fully manual body - most of the non-thumbnailed pictures were taken with that.

At the moment, I'm using an Olympus Stylus Epic - a non-zoom point and shoot, and an excellent camera, and also a Concord Eye Q non-zoom digital camera, which is not a very good digital camera. But if I can get it to cooperate, it seems to work ok.

Let me know what you think or just go to my personal home page.

Last updated 4 November 2005.