A Photographic Celebration of Life

gordon, 2002
the author

This part of my site contains selected photographs from Gordon’s private collection. For many years, photography has been a hobby. This collection includes selected film pictures taken over 17 years, plus digitals from the year 2000 onward.

These photos have a common theme - many were taken during various road trips. They are dedicated to the memory of my mother, Elsie. She wasn’t just a traveler, she was an adventurer. An uncommon lady bicyclist in the 1930’s and 1940’s, Elsie--despite a tour in New Zealand as an Army nurse during World War II--travelled through portions of Europe, Mexico, Alaska, the eastern USA and Canada with not much more than her sleeping bag, saddlebags, 3-speed Columbia bicycle and some good friends.

Elsie, 1947
the author’s mom

Looking back on my own life and those I've been with, I feel that not enough folks take the time to really experience life... to slow down, get outside, smell the roses, or really see what’s around them wherever they go. Most people seem to have their heads down against the grindstone of daily life. It pays to stop and look around once in awhile, to see the beauty around you. In this spirit, please linger a few moments and “...align yourself with the rhythm of the nature all around you. No longer dreaming of pizzas or all those great movies you’re missing. Just content to be an observer, being in awe of it all, and that alone being enough to satisfy your soul.”
The Moonlight Chronicles, A Wandering Artist’s Journal,
by Dan Price, ISBN 1-58008-171-1

Please click on one of the buttons below (in the navigation bar) to begin exploring my gallery...

Navigation bar for Gordon’s Photo Gallery go to main photo gallery page

For inquiring minds, the pictures shown here were taken with the following cameras:

• film = 35mm Nikon FA with a 35-105mm zoom lens
• digital = 3.34mpx Nikon Coolpix880 with a 2.5x zoom lens

Web content was created with the following hardware and software:

• computer = Apple Power MacG4 with MacOS Classic v9.2.2
• flatbed scanner = Epson 1200U
• photo and web site graphics editing by Corel v8.0 and M$ PowerPoint ‘98
• proofing via Sony 19 inch Multiscan G400 monitor
• ftp software by Fetch v4.0.2
• HTML and CSS text editing by hand using Simpletext v1.3.1
• and last, but not least, my favorite Mac browsers - Netscape v7.02 and Opera 6.03.

Note 1: all photos shown here are low res for best download performance.

Note 2: please use a W3C standards compliant browser such as Netscape v7.0+ or IE v5.1+ and set your computer’s monitor resolution to 1024 x 768 (or higher) for best viewing!

This page was last updated on April 4, 2005.

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