FACES OF NEPAL (1)
(By Brian Gunter, Cooma, Australia)
You are visitor number since 1 March 2000.
I have been fortunate to work in Nepal on several occasions during the period from 1990 to 1994. While most of my time was spent in Kathmandu, I also made several "official" trips to the regions around the Kathmandu Valley, to the Helambu region north of Kathmandu and to the Far Western region. On other occasions I explored places such as Pokhara and I also managed to fit in a 14-day trek to the Everest region.
During all of these "adventures" (and some truly were such!) my camera worked overtime. While the scenery (especially of the Himalayas) was spectacular, I was also fascinated by the many interesting local people that I met. This webpage (and another similar page)record some of these experiences.
For those interested in a few technical details, my present camera is a Canon EOS-100. I use only two lenses (both zooms), a Sigma 28-105mm and a Canon 70-300mm. I generally use Fujicolor 400 film as this allows me to hand-hold at 300mm focal length for the "close-up portrait shots". I sometimes use the in-camera flash to provide fill-in flash for portrait-type shots. Some of my earlier photographs, however, were taken with a Minolta GX-7 camera with a Tamron 45-150mm lens.
For the preparation of computer images I use commercial prints (A4 enlargements if possible). I have an OpticPro 9630P flat-bed digitiser and use Adobe Acrobat software for the scanning. I then carry out photo editing (minimal use so far, mainly cropping and colour/contrast control) using Microsoft Photo Editor software. I compose my web pages as Word files and transfer these to my GeoCities website using the GeoCities EZ File Upload Utility. Within GeoCities I edit the files to include the photographs. Fortunately GeoCities offer 15 MB of free webspace, and this website of mine uses up less than 1 MB.
I hope that you enjoy meeting some of the interesting people that I met in Nepal. Please email me any comments that you may have.
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Brian Gunter, Cooma, Australia
Prepared 29 February 2000