{"id":1500,"date":"1996-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1996-08-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/wander\/1996\/08\/01\/photos\/"},"modified":"2018-01-06T14:24:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T22:24:20","slug":"photos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/wander\/photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n

This set of pages collects the photos that are scattered through the Wanderjahr journal pages.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

2018 update<\/h2>\r\n

In 1996-1998, I manually scanned some of the prints of the photos I had taken, and then (as described below) ran various image-enhancement tools on them. The resulting digital images, to my 2018 eye, were low-resolution and too-small in pixel dimensions and too dark. Sometime in the past couple years, I had all the prints re-scanned by a professional scanning service, resulting in much better digital images, so I've gone through the whole journal and replaced the old images with newer versions, and added a couple dozen images that I hadn't previously included.<\/p>\r\n

The only downside to that change is that, as described below, I had significantly boosted color saturation on many of the old images, and I generally like higher-saturation images. I thought about doing some photo editing on the new images, cropping and enhancing in various ways, but that seemed like a lot of work (there are nearly 100 images in the journal now), so I didn't bother. So that means that some of the new images are less saturated than some of the old images\u2014but even so, I think the new images are better in most ways.<\/p>\r\n

Below is the original text of this page, preserved for historical purposes. (And because I liked the \u201cdithering\u201d joke.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n

1998 original text<\/h2>\r\n

Here are the best of the pictures I took on the trip. I should note that I've been regularly disappointed that the colors that show up on film aren't as vivid as those in real life; and scanning the photos in reduced clarity and saturation even further. So I used some image-enhancement tools on these: a boost to contrast here, an increase in saturation there, cropping and resizing, and the occasional sharpen or remove-dust filter. The result, I hope, is something like what fiction is supposed to do: give the idea of the real by means of the unreal. (Though there's still way too much dithering. But then, I do<\/em> way too much dithering, so there it is.) I'd welcome comments from people who know what they're doing with photo tools, on how better to achieve good-looking effects.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The photo pages<\/h2>\r\n

For each image, click the thumbnail to download the full (JPEG-format) image. The images are sorted into general categories (and chronologically within each category):<\/p>\r\n