In 1989 I retired, and Barbro and I moved to Oregon where we could enjoy our lifetime hobbies, in my case hiking and photography, in a climate that was more like New Zealand's. I have fond memories of excusions to Arthur's Pass in trains drawn by steam locomotives , in the days before the Pass was readily accessible by road. Continuing my interest in computer programming, I upgraded my Macintosh from a 512k to an SE, and put my experience on the local trails into a HyperCard stack. I later added a stack on the local wildflowers. With my Macintosh Quadra I was able to include my color photographs of trails and wildflowers, and to put the whole project on a CD-ROM , which I invite you to share with me.
Digital cameras are ideal for making quick photographs for the Web.
I take them. After coming home from a trip, I transfer the pictures directly to my hard disk, then sharpen and edit them with Adobe Photoshop LE software. In November of 2000 I moved up to a PowerMac G4 computer, primarily so that I could surf the Web with the latest browser software. I networked the G4 with my faithful old Quadra so that I could read and transfer the thousands of files that I had accumulated on it over the years. With the G4, I no longer have to download the picture files from the camera to the computer one at a time.