Recent Changes to Liang-Wu Cai's Color Book

Recent Changes to My Photography Web Pages

I update my web pages quite often (but not regularly) and yet the basic layout of My Color Book remains largely unchanged. I hope this update log provides a pointer for repeated visitors about what's new in my photo pages.

Liang-Wu Cai

1999

March 8: Added a new series of photos MIT 3 -- Another Kind of Color. This is my first series of B&W photos.
January 25: Updated My Photo Gear page.
January 6: Created two new pages that form a collection of my posts on a Chinese web-based photography forum: Short Takes, Parts 1 and 2 (almost all posts are in Chinese). These pages are linked to the Random Thoughts page.
January 5: Minor changes in Short Reviews of Films; bug-fixes in several photo series (background appears when viewed in IE)

1998

December 15-18: Added a new series of photos: Seeing the America, photos from my cross-country trip.
September 6: Expanded MIT Landscapes II --- Unorthodox Perspectives series with 4 more photos; replaced the last photo in the MIT Landscapes -- A Virtual Tour series.
September 4: Created a page about films: Short Review of Films, and placed under My Film Study page. Updated the review of Nikon circular polarizer in My Photo Gear page.
September 3: Created a page about photo labs: Fumbling with Film Processing, and placed under My Film Study page. This page a spin-off of the Ramdom Thoughts page. This also necessiates the slight restructuring of My Film Study page.
September 2-3: Updated/expanded the photo series MIT Landscapes -- A Virtual Tour in My Color Book. This series now contains 40 photos --- the largest series.
August 31-September 1: Added a new series of photos: Niagara! Niagara!! to My Color Book.
August 23: Created My Designs for MIT Homepage page that lists designs I made for the official MIT home page (http://mit.edu/) and their officially appeared versions. I haven't figured out a way to link it to my photography page yet. My MIT photos are the underlying reason why I got involved with this task.
August 22: I finally got 20M of the long-promised extra disk quota for the growing needs of my photography page, courtesy of the official MIT home page, a team within MIT's CWIS (campus-wide information system). I will start to move around things a bit in the following week or two, but there should be no visiable changes to visitors. Afterwards, new photos will be added. Come back soon.
July 30: Updated the Nikon Film Scanners Comparison Page, to include the specifications of the new CoolScan III LS-30.
July 20: Added 3 news photos to My Best Shots photo series.
July 16: Fixed several links in My Digital Darkroom.
June 17: Updated my slide label printing program, for printing shooting data stored by Nikon N90s camera, so the output file conforms the specification for "Encapsulated PostScript" files. Programs such as Photoshop would be able to handle the output without a PostScript printer.
June 16: Fixed several links to Nikon USA site. They changed agina in 2 months. This is crazy! Thanks to Javier Anton (jan@royaltel.com) for pointing this out.
May 31: Added a new series of photos of MIT campus: MIT Landscapes II --- Unorthodox Perspectives to My Color Book.
May 25-30: Spelling corrections made for most of photo-elated page, using Microsoft Word97.
May 17: Added a page about Information on Prints, linked to My Color Book.
April 23-May 3: Busy with the preparation for my Ph.D. thesis defense, but I still find and manually fix HTML coding bugs in the new design.
April 22: The new design of my photography page is rolled out. This new design splits the original My Color Book into several pages, grouped under a new page: My Photography Page. My Color Book now is dedicated entirely to on-line photo exhibit.
April 20: My solo exhibit on GuoGeng opens, so does my "simu-cast".
April 10-15: Working on overhauling my photography page, to appear soon.
April 8: Fixed several links to Nikon USA site, due to it restructuring. The affected pages include my N90s Page, Nikon Film Scanners Comparison Page and various Nikkor lens reviews.
April 5-7: Turned the photo page Colors · Lights · Poetics into Chinese (need Chinese fonts to view texts).
April 4: Started a new photo page Colors · Lights · Poetics, as preparation for my up-coming personal exhibition, first ever, on a Chinese web-zine GuoFeng (The Civil Wind).
March 30: Finished the review of Golden Navitar 3" f/2.5 projector lens, in My Photo Gear page.
March 20: Slight changes and corrections in HTML coding as well as cosmetics on several recently touched/created pages.
March 19: Created this page; placed the link in the disclaimer for My Color Book.
March 19: New page prompted by Nikon's announcement of a new film scanner LS-2000: Specification comparison of Nikon 35mm film scanners added to the end of My Photo Gear page.
March 17: Finished the review of Gateway 2000 PC, in My Digital Darkroom section of My Photo Gear page.
March 15: Reorganized My Photo Gear page to create a new section My Digital Darkroom; added as a new entry to the My Camera Book section of My Color Book.
March 14-15: Finished review of Adobe Photoshop software, in My Photo Gear page.
March 14: Revised reviews of Polaroid SprintScan 35 film scanner and Fargo PrimeraPro Elite dye-sublimation printer, in My Photo Gear page.
March 13: Finished review of Canon Professional Backpack 1, in My Photo Gear page.
March 12: Slight modification to my Nikon N90s Page: to include AF-I and AF-S lenses as usable lenses.
March 12: Finished review of LowePro Nova2 camera bog, in My Photo Gear page.
March 11: A new section Why Call It "My Color Book" added to Random Thoughts and Anecdotes on Photography page.
March 2: Corrected an error in Nikon N- series camera comparison.
February 22: Finally finished all photo pages for the Lone Journey in Deserts series, including: Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Arches National Park, Monument Valley and Grand Canyon National Park.
February 19: Some photos from my California trip were placed in My Best Shots photo page.
February 12: Replace the thumbnail for My Best Shots photo page.
February 4: Created Lone Journey in Deserts series of photo page; title is linked to the travelogue; created the Death Valley National Park photo page in this series; removed the Boston in Single Lens to make room for the new series of photos;
February 2: Updated My Best Shots photo page.
January 31: Revised Nikon N-series camera comparison.
January 8-11: Implement my new year resolution: redesigned my home page, updated my resume and c.v.
January 5: Created MIT Landscape photo page; removed Dawn at Boston photo page to make room.

1997

May 26: Initialized a web counter, courtesy of MIT SIPB's student-run web server http://www.mit.edu/, for My Color Book.

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