You may be looking for me for photography work:

brianpawlowski.com

Or my blog on alternative printing processes:

Alternative Impressions

These are some old albums of interest perhaps to someone. The current list:

• With James Washburn in France. I include links to his MSNBC articles related to this trip on the web page itself. 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).
• Oh, oh, lonesome me.

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).

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 5D Mark II which is well-matched to my interest in Alternative Printing Processes. I shoot sometimes 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 Create Suite 5.5 and Adobe Lightroom form the core of my workflow.
• I use Adobe 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 15 TB of storage for my photography work, from NetApp Inc. 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.