I can feel you slipping away from me. A little bit further now every day.

[hazelchaz]

Peter Weston sent me some photos from Eastercon. Click on the_magician's smiling face to see them. Some of them are people who are in the Fan Gallery exhibit, or are on our Expansion List #1 of people to add, which is why he's sent me this batch of photos. Many thanks, Peter!

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.

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Have digicam will travel

[rwl.livejournal.com]

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

[hazelchaz]

Yes, I'm open to outside contributions.

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)?

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*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

[rwl.livejournal.com]

Yes and Yes. What are the specs on the images you're accepting? The 1-megabyte-sized JPGs right out of the digital camera, or re-sized versions of smaller file size?

Re: Have digicam will travel

[hazelchaz]

I prefer the JPG images straight out of the digital camera. We've got plenty of storage space, and we can crop them when we print them.

We're printing them at 5"x7", so we really want those megapixel-plus images to work from.

Re: Have digicam will travel

[hazelchaz]

And if you're just asking for contributions to my website Hazel's Picture Gallery, we'll be making thumbnails and viewable-size images automatically; if there's a gross cropping situation you want to correct, you can, buth otherwise just send us the take along with info on who's in the photos.

I use IRFANVIEW to do lossless 90-degree rotation of my JPEGs, by the way. Freeware windows program, very handy.