Photo Credits and Copyright

All photographs on this site were taken by me, Neil Robertson.

All photographs © Neil Robertson. You may not download or otherwise use any of the photographs found on this site for any reason without written permission from me.

Please email me if you would like to:

Use any of my photographs
Purchase any of my photographs as a:
- Greeting card
- Print
- Coffe mug
- Or any other form

My contact information can be found here.

Website Information

For the curious, here's some information about my website:

It's coded by hand in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
The pages are built and maintained with Notepad
Bless google and the web for the help they've given:
- With tutorials and reference material
- With help for some arcane techniques
- With help figuring out some knotty problems
Hosting is done by Comcast
- GoDaddy is my Domain registrar
- My Domain names are NeilLand.com (this site) and NeilLand.net (my resume)
- Comcast, not being a real hosting company, won't take over my Domain names so:
  - My Domain Names are forwarded from GoDaddy to Comcast
  - The downside is that the URL you see in the address bar is a Comcast URL
  - The upside is that I publish my NeilLand Domain name
- Comcast doesn't allow Server Side scripting either
Photo gear:
- My underwater photography is film based using the Nikonos system
- I shoot with a Nikonos V and I have a spare V and a III
- My strobes are mainly Ikelite MVs
- I just got a pair of Ikelite 150s that I'm getting ready to use
- Although my land camera is an N80, we also have a digital Nikon Coolpix S205
- Slide scanning is with a Nikon LS-2000 with an SF-200 slide feeder (a recent addition)
Photo processing:
- I use IrfanView for almost all photo manipulation
- For removing backscatter and similar manipulations, I use GIMP
- To handle the 900 or so photos in the Underwater Photo Showcase, I use:
  - Excel spreadsheets to hold the base information
  - I wrote Excel VB Macros to extract information from the spreadsheets and create JavaScript
  - Each photo has a corresponding JavaScript function that sets up variables with that photo's information
  - Photos are organized into Sets, each set being a JavaScript function

Props to Stu Nicholls at http://www.cssplay.co.uk for the drop down menu code in CSS that I used as the basis for my menu system.

Website Update History

This is a list of all the changes made to the website in reverse chronological order.

05/18/2012: Added photos from Coastguard Pier dives on 5/4/2012 & 5/5/2012

It was a beautiful weekend in Monterey and I did two dives at Coastguard Pier. Conditions weren't the best but I got a couple of good shots, including a Hermissenda crassicornis.

Here's a link to the main Dive page. The link to the images is on the left under "Recent dive trips": Main dive page

04/11/2012: Added Neil's Top 10

Added Neil's Top 10 as a set of images that are the first things to see on the Photo Showcase page. Here's a link to the page in question: Underwater Photo Showcase

04/07/2012: IE Bug Fix

In Internet Explorer, the main menu at the top of each page sometimes displayed in the middle of the page heading logo, instead of just underneath it.

04/04/2012: Major upgrade to the Underwater Photo Showcase page

The following changes were made to the Underwater Photo Showcase page:

Rescanned all images from 1997 to 2012 (some of them really needed it)
Added a couple hundred more images
Created a set of images called Neil's Best that displays when the Photo Showcase page is entered
Changed the sort order of photos to display the most recent ones first
Added scientific names alongside the common name for each critter
When viewing images by year, there's now a Rest of YYYY as well as a Best of YYYY

Here's a link to the page in question: Underwater Photo Showcase

03/04/2012: Added PPT of Marine Eco lecture on 3/2/2012

Added my Powerpoint presentation from the Marine Ecology lecture I gave at City College as part of their Biology Seminar Series. Here's a link to the Marine Ecology page that links to the presentation: Marine Ecology page

12/18/2011: Added photos from Marine Eco class dives in Mendocino and Monterey

Added photos from Jim Grass' Marine Ecology class in Mendocino on 11/19/11 (Russian Gulch) and 11/20/11 (Van Damme). Terrible dive conditions on Saturday at Russian Gulch - we only did one dive and a short one at that. Van Damme on Sunday was quite a bit better.

Also shots from the Marine Eco class at Point Lobos on 12/2/11 and a later night dive at Coastguard Pier. Conditions were quite good but the swell coming in was quite big.

10/31/2011: Added photos from Marine Eco class dives in Sonoma

Added photos from Jim Grass' Marine Ecology class in Sonoma on 10/22/11 (Gerstle Cove) and 10/23/11 (Fort Ross). This was one of the best dive weekends we've ever had up in Sonoma County, flat calm with good visibility.

10/19/2011: Added Underwater Calendar page

The main change was to add a page with links to the Underwater California calendars I've been making the past few years. It also affected the main menu system, which received some minor tweaking. I also added a copyright statement at the bottom of each page and a Copyright and Credits section to the WebInfo page.

10/02/2011: Rescanned all slides from the 2011 Marine Eco lecture

09/27/2011: Added 2011 Marine Ecology lecture at San Francisco City College

09/19/2011: Redesigned menu system, added underwater shots from this year

This was an extensive update that:

Changed the menus to allow drop down menus
Used JavaScript to allow centralized control of frequently changing items (e.g. recent dives)
Moved Recent Updates off of the home page
Cleaned up some peripheral items
Positioned the website for future updates
Added photos from all the dives I've done in 2011 (I was a bit behind with that)

05/15/11: Added 2011 Easter Egg shots

All Easter Egg shots were also moved from mySpace to Flick/R

10/03/10: Added Metridium Fields shots from 9/25/10

09/22/10: Moved my resume to NeilLand.net and rewrote it from scratch

09/21/10: Added 2010 Marine Ecology lecture I gave at City College

08/12/10: Added Metridium Fields and Coastguard Pier shots from 7/31/10

08/12/10: Added Point Lobos shots from 7/1/10

06/28/10: Added new page for the Kinetic Sculpture Races in Arcata: neilland.com/ksr

05/12/10: Added Point Lobos shots from 3/6/10 and 5/8/10

04/21/10: Added new Photo Showcase page with 600 underwater images

This was a major effort which involved:

Looking out and scanning over 600 slides
Creating Excel spreadsheets with information about each slide
Building a system in JavaScript to display them
Building a system that built JavaScript functions from the Excel image files

04/12/10: Added 2010 Easter Eggs to Easter page

03/03/10: Added Lovers Point shots from 2/06/10

02/03/10: Changed list of \"Recent Dives\" to a scrollable list

02/01/10: Added shots from Point Lobos dives on 12/4/09 and 1/09/10

11/05/09: Added shots from the Marine Ecology class in Gerstle Cove

10/08/09: Added a temp directory only accessable as neilland.com/temp

10/03/09: Added shots from last weekend's Marine Ecology class in Monterey

09/24/09: Added Marine Ecology page with the last Marine Ecology Lecture I gave

09/17/09: Changed resume (complete rewrite)

09/14/09: Added Ocean Cove shots from 8/22/09

09/14/09: Changed "Update History" to scroll boxes

07/29/09: Straightened house photo on main menu

07/22/09: Added Coastguard Pier dive shots from 7/18/09

07/16/09: Added an index.htm page to each main subject as a redirect

07/16/09: Added Furniture page

06/19/09: Updated resume so neilland.com/resume would work

06/10/09: Added 2009 Easter Egg shots

05/21/09: Added Point Lobos shots from 5/9/09

04/23/09: Added Links & Contact Info page

04/19/09: Added Point Lobos shots from 4/9/09

04/03/09: First production version of the website