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Re: Updated photos at the picture gallery



I think some of  Hunter's photos of the full band were taken (stolen) and used 
for the
"Plugged and Unplugged" bootleg.

Phil

anthony_r wrote:

> I just updated some photos at the picture gallery that were posted a year ago
 of
> Patti and the band at the Roskilde Festival, in Denmark, in July 2001. The
> photographer, Hunter Desportes, had a whole bunch of photos from that concert
 that
> he hadn't posted at his website, so I gathered all of those he sent me plus t
hose
> he had up and put them all in one place at the gallery. I love the great colo
rs,
> sharpness and vividness of the pictures (a virtue of today's digicams), and t
here
> are some great shots of the crowd as well (often overlooked when taking photo
s at
> a concert): that's Hunter in a couple of them, btw, thanks to the Nikon swive
l
> lens (not from the new Nikon CP2500 but an earlier model with similar feature
s).
>
> The first set, a spoken word performance the day before, June 30, with Patti 
and
> Oliver, are a bit blurry unfortunately, but still nice to view. The next set 
is
> better, the full band performance the next day (July 1). The gallery page has
 24
> pictures, and there's a link (in red) to view the full set. I really enjoyed
> looking at _all_ of them, and hopefully others will too, but the abbreviated 
set
> of 24 is good enough if you don't have the patience or bandwidth for the full
 set
> (though you'd be missing out on some great shots if you don't). It probably h
elps
> to have a cable modem or DSL connection when viewing the full set. Also, 1024
 x
> 768 seems the best monitor resolution for navigating through the photos (or e
ven
> 800x600 with full-screen view).
>
> http://www.postmodern.com/~fi/pattipics/htm/gallery7.htm
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Anthony