china pictures

By anders pearson 11 Feb 2001

you’ve probably noticed that i’ve been rather delinquent about posting sketches lately. it’s not that i haven’t been drawing (so far i’ve gone to all my classes this semester so i’ve had plenty of doodle-time). i just haven’t scanned any in.

instead, i’ve been staying an hour or two late at work whenever i have time and scanning in photos from my trips to china. i decided that with my luck, i’d probably lose the physical copies eventually so i figured that i ought to get them all scanned in so i can keep digital copies backed up on a couple different machines and make sure i never lose them. with that in mind i had my parents send me my albums and i’ve been slowly scanning them all.

i’ve got basically three sections:

1999 trip: pictures from tucker and i’s trip in may of 1999. i’ve still got another 20 or so pictures to scan in from this one, but it’s mostly there.
1997 trip (group pictures): these are sort of the “best of” pictures that were traded around amongst the people on my 1997 fall semester in Nanjing after the trip. all taken by various people. this set is all scanned in.
1997 (my pictures): my own photos from the 1997 trip. i’m scanning them all in (even the boring, bad ones); got about 180 to scan in all. only a few of them in so far.

so that’s my project for the semester. eventually i’ll be done and i can start scanning sketches again (i can only take so much time scanning each day before i start to go nuts from the monotony). i’ve also got all my old journal entries from the 1997 trip at least kicking around that i’ll probably do something with someday.

and of course, all my pictures are free of those annoying, useless “copyrights” that the selfish people are so fond of so feel free to steal them (i’ve also got big, 5MB, hi-res TIFFs of them all too if you want them)