. . . about my photography, my web pages, and myself

Photography

I started becoming serious about photography when I enrolled in a high school photography class. Due to the excellent facilities and teaching, I learned a great deal about using SLR cameras and developing my own prints. Most of the pictures I've displayed were in fact hand developed by me at my high school photography lab during my Junior and Senior years in high school. I'd like to give special thanks to Mr. Burnett for teaching me the basics and encouraging and supporting my continuation in photography, to Mrs. McKeown for giving me the opportunity to further explore new aspects of photography, and to Ms. Tinker who has made it possible for me to return to the photo lab during my years as an undergrad at Arizona State University. I fully acknowledge that if it weren't for these incredible and generous individuals and the wonderful photography facilities provided at Marcos de Niza High School, I might not even be involved in photography today.

I've recently graduated from grad school at Stanford University and am currently designing circuits for microprocessors in Oregon. The beauitful greenery of Oregon is quite different from my surroundings in Arizona and I hope to get back into photography once things get settled down.

I would appreciate any constructive criticisms about my pages or my photography. I also would enjoy hearing any advice, comments, or questions if you have them. I have recently been quite terrible about replying to messages even though I've enjoyed reading every one. Thanks for your interest in my work!

--Laura

HTML coding

I learned to write HTML code way back before the internet boom really took off. Since I've been manually coding HTML for so long, I am quite leery of automated web developer software and still tweek the code by hand. I learned HTML mainly by studying the web pages that I found impressive and then comparing how the page looked with the source code of that page. For the most common web browsers, you can view the source code of web pages by going up to the "View" menu and then selecting "Document Source." Once I found out which commands produced the desired results, then it was just a matter of trying these commands out on my own pages in a trial and error method. On my home page, I put a couple of links to beginner HTML code, but I really think progress in writing the HTML comes from studying other peoples actual web pages. I hope this helps anyone interested in designing their own web pages!

This Site

So far, I'm quite thrilled with the web hosting service I'm receiving from Yahoo! Website Services and do recommend it. My URL had been changing quite a bit as I went from undergrad to grad school and then used quite a few of those 'free' web hosing sites. Now that I've finally registered my domain name, there will be no more need for redirections or not-found errors. It's also wonderful not to have those awful popup banners and inserts that plague the free hosting sites, and I'm very satisfied with the amount of space I'm getting as well as fast ftp access.

I'm experimenting with DHTML (Dynamic HTML) to dynamically add the "floating" navigational menu bar to the pages in the exhibit (this one's from brainjar.com). Unfortunately, it's probably not compatible with all of the browsers in the world, but manually updating all of the hard-coded links in all of the photo pages in the exhibit is simply too arduous a task. I apologize if the navigational menu bar is inconvenient, but I like it a whole lot better than frames. I've coded it to appear after the whole page loads or when the browser's "Stop" button is pressed. I'm not too happy that on IE, the script requires the browser to scroll to the page bottom and then back up agian before displaying, and I would prefer the bar to pop up right away rather than after the whole page has loaded. I hope to change the script when I find something better or have the time to hack it myself.

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Top photo taken by Samantha Feldman -- Photo at right taken by my mom on the Grand Canyon trip
All images in this exhibit are Copyright 1990 - 2001 Laura A. Knauth