On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Rick Rose wrote: > Excellent Presentation last night! I'm inspired to do better "record > keeping" using my camera. Also, can the free software you mentioned (the > gimp?) be downloaded? I'd like to learn how to "stitch". What would you > think about reiterating the various contest opportunities with contact info > and deadlines in a follow-up email to the members? You betcha... posting to gsas-member directly now... The Gimp is homed at http://www.gimp.org Gimp for Windows has its home at http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/ and this in turn points you to this site http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/ which actually has stuff you can install easily under Windows. I'm trying it right now while I type just to see if works. Normally I just use the Linux/Unix version. My little stitching demo is on http://mystery.thekrib.com at the moment. The AGA Aquascaping contest is at http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org Entry fee is cheap, and I will be personally happy to come over and photograph anyone's aquarium for the contest. The thing that's so cool about the AGA Contest is that it features folks from beginner to advanced, and the styles are very different. Deadline is September 15th. The AGA site is http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org, and this is where you can get two of the books I mentioned: Aquarium Plants Handbook (an AGA exclusive) and Tropica's book (which is also available elsewhere). The AGA is also holding convention in Dallas the weekend of November 14th, featuring Christel Kasselmann (author of the $70 book I mentioned -- available on amazon or other places), Karen Randall (here last June & who will be in Portland for their show in October), Roger Miller, George Booth, Tom Barr and a bunch of other speakers. This convention is *the* place to hang out with major plant geeks. Aqua Design Amano's home is http://www.adana.co.jp but their site has notoriously little information in English, especially about their contest. The Aquatic Plants Digest's home is http://fins.actwin.com/aquatic-plants And yes,I can now say that installing Gimp for Windows from the third site I listed works great! You have to install both pieces (first gtk, then gimp), but otherwise it comes right up. - Erik -- Erik Olson erik at thekrib dot com ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please send mail to majordomo@thekrib.com with "Unsubscribe gsas-member" in the body of the message. Archives of this list can be found at http://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-member/