| Fall 2007 |
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The fall design featured natural colors and wildlife portraits from our trips to Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, and Alaska.
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| Summer 2006 |
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The spring design reverted to the floral theme from December 2003. We also started using Twitter to post the everday minutia not usually blog-worthy.
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| January 2006 |
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The January design was inspired by our "once in a lifetime"
trip to Africa. But who are we kidding - after a trip like
this, we're completely hooked and were already planning
our next adventure on the flight home.
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| August 2005 |
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The August design was inspired by a late summer invasion
of very patient and camera-friendly monarch butterflies.
In August we enhanced the photography section of the site,
plotting our visited destinations on a zoomable Google map,
and linking the destinations to our photo pages. Geeky,
but cool for sure :)
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| January 2005 |
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The January design was inspired by our once-in-a-lifetime
trip to the Galapagos.
The home page featured a collage
comprised of images from the trip. The colors were taken
straight from the images - the blue from a blue-footed boobie
and the yellow from the feathers on a yellow warbler. |
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| December 2004 |
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Yes - I went TWELVE months without updating the design.
Worse than that, I basically recycled a holiday
design from 2001!
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| December 2003 |
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The December design is about as far from "traditional
holiday festive" as one can get - but then again,
it is perfect for OUR traditions.
Because of our Thanksgiving and Christmas vacations to
warm Caribbean locations, the December design features
tropical flowers and will be used for both trips.
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| July 2003 |
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The July design was inspired by our trip to Greece and
Barcelona.
In June, I also added a phonepics
page, where I post pictures taken with our Nokia 3650
phone. We posted a ton while in Greece and Barcelona and
it was a fun way to let everyone tag along on our trip
:)
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| April 2003 |
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April design was inspired by spring. Well, not spring in
Chicago, but spring flowers somewhere. In April I also added
a new page to the site - a photoblog
where I post pictures for photofriday.
I added a comments section, where people who view the page
can comment on my work. |
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| January 2003 |
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our Christmas card mentioned, a cast on my arm was NOT going
to change our travel plans. The January design featured
images and colors from our bareboat
adventure in the British Virgin Islands. |
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| December 2002 |
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end of 2002 was not the best time for us. Andy wound up
in the hospital in October for espohageal spasms (NOT a
heart attack) and I was hit by a car while walking to work.
The December Home Page featured an xray
of my broken arm in festive holiday colors :) |
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| October 2002 |
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fall was very busy (with a trip
to Egypt for work and many papers due for school)
so we did not have time for fall foliage pictures. I recycled
some images
from last fall for the design and updated the portfolio
section of the website. |
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| August 2002 |
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August Home Page featured an image from our trip to Nantucket.
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| June 2002 |
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June design used the colors and images from our trip to
Paris and Ireland. Between the two of us, we shot over 1000
images (not all "keepers" of couse) and this was
the first time we could not select a single image for the
home page - and the "new image on refresh on the home
page" (shown to right) was born. |
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| May 2002 |
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May design used the colors and images from our trip to Egypt.
Since this was the first trip with the Nikon Coolpix 5000,
this was the first time we ran into the problem of "entirely
too many pictures to show" - and the "highlight"
page (shown to right) was born. |
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| February 2002 |
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February design used the same color scheme as the January
design but incorporated images from our trip
to the Bahamas. This was the first time we added video
to the site - showing swimming manta rays and floating jellyfish. |
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| January 2002 |
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January design was inspired by the colors of the Southern
Caribbean. The images in the banner are some of my favorites
from the
cruise pictures. |
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| December 2001 |
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The December design was meant to have snowflakes, ornaments,
and Christmas trees. Unfortunately, I never got around to
taking the pictures, so as a last resort I actually drew
these masterpieces :) |
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| October
2001 |
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The October design was inspired by colors from the
fall foliage pictures. The images in the banner are
from our trip to Galena, Illinois. |
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| September
2001 |
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banner design featured some of my favorite pictures from
Rome,
Florence,
and Milan.
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