Peter Weston sent me some photos from Eastercon. Click on Peter Weston, FGoH at Noreascon 4 (this year's Worldcon, in Boston) is also a former Worldcon Chair, and former TAFF delegate, as well as a part-time Fan Gallery photographer.
Peter Weston sent me some photos from Eastercon. Click on
Have digicam will travel
Date: 2004-07-01 09:57 am (UTC)Are you open for outside contributions? And do you have a "want list" of people, etc, or are you just looking for photos that pictorially document conventions?
Re: Have digicam will travel
Date: 2004-07-01 01:01 pm (UTC)I have a "want list" of people that we want for the Fan Gallery. Expansion List #1* is available for inspection, if you'd like to see who we're still seeking. We're also open to additional suggestions, of fans who should be known outside their area for their contribution to fandom. (So if you have some good snapshots of the BNFs of, say, Romania, we'd be interested.)**
As far as my personal website (Hazel's Picture Gallery), there are about two things I'm trying to do: I'm interested in more pictures of fans, with identification attached. So far I have about 4,000 names cross-referenced to their photos, which is one of the things that makes the website useful. And I'm collecting pictures of people, things, and events that interest me.
Do you have some photos in mind? Or are you asking for future use (such as, say, the next Worldcon or Corflu you go to)?
*Why do we call it "List #1"? Because the fans on List #2 are all permanently inactive, that is, deceased. We're generally honoring living fans in the Fan Gallery. At Worldcon, we have enough space to set up the "Fan Gallery Annex," i.e. an extra panel or two, a memorial wall to honor those who've died.
**How do we decide who qualifies for being recognized for their contribution to fandom? We have four automatic qualifications, which we call the "core collection" -- Worldcon/NASFiC fgohs, Worldcon/NASFIC chairs, fan Hugo winners, and fan fund winners. After that, it's a judgement call; up until he passed away, Christian and I were coming up with proposed names and letting Bruce Pelz sign off on them. (He pointed out one or two names that would be a definite "No" under the little-known "Damage to Fandom" clause.) After he died, we froze that list, and have been working on the backlog, but we are still interested in suggestions, for when we unfreeze the list and start adding more names to the "wanted" list.
Re: Have digicam will travel
Date: 2004-07-06 08:35 pm (UTC)Re: Have digicam will travel
Date: 2004-07-06 08:43 pm (UTC)We're printing them at 5"x7", so we really want those megapixel-plus images to work from.
Re: Have digicam will travel
Date: 2004-07-06 08:46 pm (UTC)I use IRFANVIEW to do lossless 90-degree rotation of my JPEGs, by the way. Freeware windows program, very handy.