So, it turns out some nice people in the UK want to sell you cool mobile phones!

Give them a beep if you're looking for a phone in the UK!

First, some mechanical issues. I used to use this site to store my photos which are bundled into web pages. More below on that. Anyway, I think I've reached a point that you can continue clicking through images to get larger and larger (and less compressed) versions (some older pages don't have multi-level clicks).

But a lot of that is in the past. You may be looking for me on any number of other sites:

brianpawlowski.com

My photo.net persona (and my portfolio there)

My portfolio on One Model Place

There are some random old links to photos and web pages below.

• With James Washburn in France. I include links to his MSNBC articles related to this trip on the web page itself. His first article on the trip to France appeared on December 11, 2000. His second article on the trip to France appeared on December 18, 2000. MSNBC decided to take the articles Jim wrote about our trip off-line - I have to upload his drafts. Bummer.
• Aki and me with Ayumi in New York. I really fell in love with New York City that weekend - and I grew up a couple miles from there!
• The weather outside is frightful - the brief snow fall in Amsterdam.
• With Tomoe in Yokohama - she was in Japan the same time I was there for work.
• The eclipse in Europe in '99
• Some pictures of the Amsterdam apartment (tres boring).
• Nik's high school class in Milan at end of their trip.
• Oh, oh, lonesome me.

Oh yeah, my first web page - the original index for this site. Most of my digital archive is not on the web.

Hard to categorize

I am fascinated by typography. I used fontographer (from Macromedia I think) to create a scalable True Type font of my handwriting. I captured the strokes using a pressure sensitive Wacom tablet. It was a hoot. I want to play more when I have the time. (Right, the inside joke here is my handwriting is atrocious, and I often print out letters. A woman once told me that hand-written letters were more personal. I am sensitive about how bad my handwriting is, but I sent her one. She requested I go back to typing. So I created the beepy font as an offense against god).

Work related stuff

Well, I have this work life, that is increasingly making me crazy. But here are a couple of links.

• I work at Network Appliance. 12 years in January 2006. Before that I slummed mostly for 6 and 1/2 years at Sun Microsystems. I try to be philosophical about all this.
• I work with the Network File System. The paper on NFS Version 3 and the paper on NFS Version 4 are the basic summaries of the work. I have been involved with the IETF prodding this along — here are the RFC for NFS Version 3 and RFC for NFS Version 4 that you can read if you want.

This is probably meaningless to you.

Technical notes

Nothing really deep. I read parts of Philip Greenspun's book on Web Publishing. Changed my life - well it deepened my tendency to lean and spare and simple web page design. I also found that buying web page designs for more complicated undertakings is not a bad idea - AllWebCo.com worked for me. The Photo.Net site that I stumbled onto where the on-line book resides is way cool as a resource for photography.

On photography

So, where I am now is:

• Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II which is well-matched to my Epson 2200 and 4800 and 9800 printers. I shoot a lot of work though with 4x5 (and 8x10) view cameras. I favor my press cameras (Graflex) for 4x5 work. The 4x5 work I scan with an Imacon 646. My neck still hurts (I mean really) from the weight of these cameras.
• Adobe Photoshop CS 2, Adobe Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw form the core of my workflow.
• I generate the framework html pages for image clicking and index page using Bourne shell scripts. I have moved entirely away from Windows PCs to Apple Macintosh. I have a few. My laptops have 2GB memory in them because I work on large files. My desktop has 4GB memory.
• I use Macromedia Dreamweaver for editing the raw index.html page — adding my commentaries.

The only thing I can say is that I expect this to evolve further. I have about 1 TB of storage for my photography work. I shoot in Raw mode, or scan to 16 bit TIFF files.

Some of the work I have done is described in a series of articles on Alain Briot's site:

• Thoughts on Photographing a Nautilus
• Antarctic trip report one and report two

In one of my recent images which I like a lot I captured a dialogue discussing the meaning of the image.