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Big Chill Photos 2005

As there are so many photos, I've divided them up into sections and subsections. If all works correctly, each section should open in a separate window. They're also at a 'reasonable' size to save having to click hundreds of thumbnails.

However, this means that I've had to keep the sizes down a bit, which results in inevitable low pass filtering so the definition of all the shots doesn't appear to be as good as they really were. (It also means that those of you not on broadband will find it a bit tedious!) I'm afraid the process has also produced some rather 'glubby' compression artifacts in some cases (especially on some reds). However, I've retained all the unprocessed originals in 3008 x 2000 format so that any that are required can be produced in hi-res. and without the distortions. The "new window per page" suits users of Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox but may be irritating for users of some Linux-based browsers. Apologies for that. You can get a free download of Mozilla Firefox (far superior to MS Internet Explorer here.)

As I was going round photographing for the BC website this year, I took even more shots than I usually do, totalling 900 or so! After the first pass, I'd whittled this down to 600 potentially useable ones and have further reduced the number a little on the second pass as this would still have required some 30MB, even with just the web-friendly reduced-size versions!

For anyone arriving at this page who isn't a Big Chill aficionado, some explanation might be required.

The Big Chill website has a very active (and rather fluffy - not that there's anything wrong with that) forum. It's purple. Thus, the regular users are known as Purple People. BC also attempts to provide support to installation artists and this results in an 'arts trail' up the hillside at night.

Veiwing the photos: They've been adjusted on an LCD screen in subdued lighting (cf: video & TV) and are assumed to be viewed similarly with daylight-balanced or video-style illuminant D6500 source probably producing reasonable results. They haven't been gamma corrected for CRT so brightness and contrast may appear to be strange if viewed in different conditions. (Having said that, the variability in quality of office-grade LCDs is often shocking so they may even look strange on an LCD!)

Note: Our servers are sometimes a little flaky. If you get a grey box where there should be a pic, just hit F5 to refresh. If everything dies, try again later.

Acts (4KB then sub-pages)

Arts Trail (274KB)

Big Chill FM (399KB)

Ceilidh (1MB)

Miscellaneous (2KB then sub-pages)

Views & Venues (2KB then sub-pages)

Workers & Behind the Scenes (2KB then sub-pages)

The Sunday Evening Procession (2KB then sub-pages)

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