This page is not fancy. I just wanted to share some photos with my friends. Feel free to browse my pictures of horses and California scenery and even a few people. I enjoy playing volleyball and hockey and horseback riding. If you do any of those things, especially ride horses, and live in the San Francisco bay area -- or just if you've looked at some of my pictures here and think they're good, or bad -- drop me an email! My address is: username@host.com, where username is "mmach" and host is "yahoo" (hopefully this convoluted presentation, while annoying, will foil evil mass-marketing-email-address-trolling-programs).
September 2003
Added California Gubernatorial debate sounds.
| Sep. '03 Calif. Gubernatorial
debate highlights
Matt's brain: This proves that I have one! The Desert: Something I wrote over 20 years ago Lufthansa first-class airplane seat, view 1 Lufthansa first-class airplane seat, view 2 SF and Monterey Bay area wedding links |
October 2002
Added Sydney trip pictures.
September 2002
Added Labor Day trip to L.A. pictures.
July 2002
Added Slinky pictures.
June 2002
Added digital camera pictures.
December 2001
Added Japan trip pictures.
November
2001
Added honeymoon pictures.
September 2001
I scanned and posted some pictures taken with my new camera.
January 2001
My first major update in a long time... I imported my hand-created old web site into FrontPage. Hopefully this will make it easier for me to add new pictures from time to time. I also added pages with lots of summer 2000 Stanford Red Barn Festival photos. (For you PC users, I highly recommend IrfanView, a freeware image viewing/processing program that is just great. It would have taken me 10 times as long to post these Stanford pics without IrfanView's batch processing function.) (I'm also thankful that the barn manager got Kodak photo CDs when she had the pictures developed -- saving me many hours of scanning that I probably never would have gotten around to.)
July 2000
Added a link to our company hockey team page.
October 1998
Welcome back, after a long hiatus. I wasn't able to update my
web site here for about a year, but I now own a scanner, and I finally
found the time to scan in a bunch of photos from the last year. Hope
you enjoy them! I thought about converting to a more typical site
format, using thumbnails for all images to save people the download time
for images they're not interested in, but I decided not to. It would
have been more work for me, and I think my current, roughly-5-images-per-page,
setup works fairly well and each page doesn't take -too- long to download.
If you think I should go to thumbnails in the future, please let me know.
Also, I gave up on trying to exactly reproduce my printed photos on the
computer screen... it was just too time-consuming. So, I adjusted
the brightness/contrast/color balance to get the best-looking images on
the screen (in my opinion). However, except in cases where there
was some physical obstruction that I just could not avoid or I simply couldn't
get close enough to my subject, I have kept the original framing of all
photos and have not done any retouching. I'm not a total photo purist,
thinking that any electronic alteration of photos in any way is bad, but
I also think there should be some skill in taking pictures -- to me, mainly
timing and framing and to some extent exposure settings -- so I've tried
to retain most of that in going from my original photos to the web site
here. If you have any comments, as always, feel free to email me.
Last Updated on 01/09/06 07:28 AM
By Matthew Machlis
