About these Pictures

This file is for use with the Monterey Museum of Natural History flower 
pictures.

These (350) pictures were taken at the Flower Show at the Monterey Museum of 
Natural History on April 18-20, 1997.  They were taken using a Minolta RD-175 
digital camera. This camera has a default resolution of 1500 by 1700 pixels;  
these pictures were resized to fit on a computer screen  (640 by 480) and saved 
as JPEG files using Adobe Photoshop. (See below for comments on "L" in the file 
name, which indicates the use of the full pixel size.)
 
Unfortunately, the photographer was not allowed to move the 
flower samples, hence had to use the existing lighting and background, which 
resulted in a lower contrast and depth of focus picture than would be desired.

The pictures have been placed in a HTML file and hence are displable by either 
Netscape or Internet Explorer.  Insert the CD into your CD reader and type:  
G:\MONTJPEG\MONTEREY.HTM, where G is the letter of your CD drive.  Hitting 
enter will bring up the first page with its introduction, which should include 
a small beautiful picture of Vallium Crispum, Crinkled Onion, Liiiaceae and 
some information.  Below this is a (scrolling) list of the flower pictures 
available, with each flower name acting as a button to the picture.

The complete list of pictures available is found in the file:  
g:\montjpeg\montalls.txt and this file should be printed for your future 
reference.  N.B.  Some of the files have a name that contains a "L"  (e.g. 
MG-5L) and all picture files have the suffex:  .jpg .  Those files that have a 
"g" in them  (e.g.  5G-58) are pictures of the grasses that were collected 
at the Show.  These pictures are all of multiple (4--6) grasses in one picture 
and hence are best viewed in the "L" form for details.