2000 Memphis Star Trek/Xena Convention

	Tim is a funny guy. He sang a couple of filk songs. Showed us a short video of an Internet series he's working on. And he put on a skit later with some audience participants. He talked about Voyager, how he got the job after several tries throughout the years to break into Star Trek. Talked about acting, both the joys and perils of the profession. Said he enjoyed the ensemble nature of Voyager because it means less work for each actor. [Full]
	Here we see Tim and three audience members doing a short Star Trek parody that Tim wrote, complete with sound effects on tape. The kid with the Starfleet uniform runs some sort of email Star Trek shared universe. It's not quite role-playing, more like shared story writing. He gave me his card and I visited his web site and it's well done. Too bad I don't remember his name or the web site anymore. [Full]
	Chris getting Tim's autograph. As long as we had tickets he wanted to get an autograph. The autograph line is well done and everybody waits patiently. Just about everybody gets an autograph and at about 15 seconds a person it'll still take an hour. One reason why the guests can't spend too much time being friendly and chit chatting with people, or signing anything special on the autograph. [Full]

Pictures: Day 2

Wow, it's been 3-1/2 months since the convention and I finally took the time to get the July 9 pictures sorted, choosing 16 for this page. Not necessarily the clearest 16, since they're all pictures of Ms Leick I had plenty of room to choose some marginal, yet interesting, pictures. I'm not that great with a camera, so out of 200 photos half were thrown out in the first pass. The second pass I sorted them into clear/interesting, clear/normal, blurry/interesting and blurry/normal photos. Out of that I chose 9 of the clear/interesting, 5 clear/normal and 2 blurry/interesting photos.

There was a lot of experimenting with my camera. Shots at different shutter speeds and aperture widths. A fast shutter speed and high ISO gain can compensate for indoor lighting and someone moving around a bit (waving their arms or walking about), but the picture does come out grainy. Closeup shots require more light, which means slower shutter speed, which means I have few closeup shots of Ms Leick moving about. Black and white photos tend to be a bit sharper than color photos, since the camera uses all the pixels for color information instead of using 1/3 for each of 3 colors and interpolating.

Click on a picture for a 640 x 480 blowup. Click on [Full] to see the 2048 x 1536 original.

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