Jeffrey Putnam spent some time in the Peace Corps in Zaire after getting out of college and took some picture
Peace Corps
I spent some time in the Peace Corps in Zaire after getting out of college and took some pictures. I've been thinking for a while about building a web site or cd with these pictures, and some of my memories about them.
I'd love to find someone who'd like to interview me about these pictures, record and transcribe the results and build a cdrom out of it. Before my memory goes completely.
This is a sample of the images I've scanned in by hand. I had a set that were all rotated to be square, right side up, and color corrected (using my own rather cheezy color correction code) but I can't now find them. Probably on a backup CD somewhere (but I have more of those than is comfortable). I've just found a negative scanner and will be trying to scan the negatives which should help some of those problems.
I'm making the incremental scans available on the web here with no explanations, labels or much else. Partly this is for my convenience. But if you want to peek, go ahead.
These pictures are (variously) of Entebbe Airport in Uganda, and Kinshasha, Lubumbashi, Luabo, Chibambo (find that on a map!), Kivu, Kalemie - all in Zaire (now the Republic of the Congo).
Each image is in jpeg format and 800 by 1100 pixels and about 100K in size. The index presents smaller (not small - 120x120 pixels or so) images of the pictures. Under the image are letters M and L - M will take you to a 500x500 (more or less) image and L will take you to the full size image. The pictures may be crooked, will often need color correction and may be upside down.
All images are copyright and may not be used without my consent - for most non profit purposes such consent will not be hard to get.
The index may get big with all the "thumbnails" (see above). You have been warned. Eventually I'll build multiple index pages. Currently there about 300 images on the index page.
OK, OK, enough blather - to the pictures!
For what its worth, I found my time in the Peace Corps to be wonderful and while I don't have any idea of how much (if any) good I actually did, I can always hope. I highly recommend the Peace Corps as an experience for those interested. If you are interested, here are a couple web sites worth visiting :
The official peace corps site.
Peace Corps Online.
