Yup sure... thank for sharing ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell McMahon" To: Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:52 AM Subject: [OT:] Random Photos > In July & August my wife and I and a friend and (part of the way) my > daughter did a world tour where we visited 24 countries. I took 44,000 > photos. Many would interest nobody but me. Some are interesting and some > rather good (if I do say so). > > I still have not got many of these on a website for various reasons. > I decided to start sending an occasional semi-randomly chosen photo by email > to those of my friends who may be interested in seeing them. > The message below is the first one but without the pictures (about 170 kB in > this case). > > If anyone here is interested I am happy to add them to the list - and take > them off again if it proves not worth the bandwidth. > Feel free to pass this on to anyone else who may be silly enough to be > interested. > > Read text below. > > To get a sample only, reply to this email FROM YOUR OWN ADDRESS (not to > list) with > > SAMPLE at the top of the message. > > To join the list reply with > > YES > > at the top of the reply. > > You will be taken off the list on request. > Your email address will not be given to anyone else. > > First sample - TOTAL EMAIL SIZE WAS ABOUT 175 KB > Expected size probably usually 100 to 200 KB > > Pictures are 5 MP photos reduced down from 1 MB each. > > > > > Russell McMahon > > > __________________________________ > > TEXT OF MESSAGE SENT TO MY FRIENDS: > > > > This email is being sent to a large number of people. > This is an "OPT IN" idea. > If you want to receive any more of these you need to ask. > (Just reply to this email with "Yes" or similar. ) > If I don't hear from you you (probably) won't see any more of these. > No need to say no. > If you ask to see them and after a while decide you want to stop, you just > need to say and I will take you off the list. > > While we were away I took many many many photos in 24 countries. > Some are interesting or unusual or strange or exciting or fun or just plain > weird. > I decided to occasionally take a randomly selected trip photo and send it to > people who were interested in seeing them. > (While I could have chosen my own favourites, this way the choices are > liable to be more varied and unexpected). > . > The photos (all 44,000 of them!) are stored in per day folders. > I leaped into a semirandomly chosen day folder and stepped along files and > randomlyish chose a location and THEN (cheating) stepped through pictures to > the first interesting one. > > This is it. > Note - this is NOT representative of the rest. some will be scenic or of > food, people, buildings, vehicles, roads, .... > Variety guaranteed. > > Motor on a stick. > > > [PICTURE REMOVED] > Quite unlike anything I have seen in New Zeakand > (or any of the other 23 countries we visited ) > > Motor of a boat which we hired for a trip on the Bangkok canals. > Nothing like thus in NZ as far as I know. > There were many boats like this. > Motor balances on a gimbal with a lonnnnnnnng drive shaft out back left and > steersman moves it round with steering pile at right. > Really goes!!! > > In this non-random add on you can see one in action. > > [PICTURE REMOVED] > Boat in action on canal with roostertail > > Another (not really randomly chosen) Bangkok site. > > [PICTURE REMOVED] > Pretty Thai temple scene with towers etc. > > ______________________________ > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics