Most Coimbatore photos and all Kodaikkanal, Madurai, and Surgical Conference photos date from 21 May - 1 June 2004. Other pictures were taken then or from Nov 2004 - Feb 2005. Vellore photos were taken Nov-Dec 2004; Ooty pictures 31 Dec 2004 - 1 Jan 2005; Kolkata pictures 6 Jan - 4 Feb 2005.
Coimbatore photos typically are in or near Coimbatore city, Tamil Nadu state, India, a small town of 8 to 18 lakh persons. 1 lakh = 100000. Surgical Conference photos are from MIS ICON 2004 (Minimally Invasive Surgery International Conference) at Kovai Medical Center Hospital in Coimbatore. Please email j-waldby@pat7.com for caption corrections.
Pictures under the Kodaikkanal heading were taken at the Kodaikkanal "hill station", altitude 2300 m, about 110 km southeast of Coimbatore.
Pictures under the Madurai heading were taken at Madurai, about 150 km southeast of Coimbatore.
Vellore pictures were taken mostly at Vellore, a small city (5 lakh?) on the road between Chennai and Bangalore. Also in this section at the moment are pictures from weekend trips to Pondicherry and Bangalore.
Originals of Vellore pictures haven't been uploaded yet - 12 Feb 2005 - there are small copies (about 640x480) instead. Also, numerous captions and pictures are missing (not yet uploaded) at the moment
Ooty pictures were taken in the Nilgiris, a mountainous northwestern district of Tamil Nadu. The Nilgiris are around 50 km northwest of Coimbatore; well west of Bangalore, slightly east of northern Kerala.
Ooty pictures haven't been uploaded yet - 12 Feb 2005
Kolkata pictures were taken in Kolkata, West Bengal. Before 2002 Kolkata was called Calcutta. We stayed at guesthouses in Salt Lake City, an affluent region of town, altitude about 2300 mm. Beginning in the 1960's, Salt Lake was constructed on land created by filling in 3000 acres of a shallow salt lake, with sand dredged from the Hugli River and transported several miles overland in fluid state in a pipeline.
Kolkata captions haven't been prepared yet - 12 Feb 2005
Three sets of links are given below. Pages listed in the first set of links are text-only pages, with "snapshot" links to large thumbnails and links to originals; use these pages if you have a slow internet connection. Pages in the second set show small thumbnail images inline, with "snapshot" links to large thumbnails and links to originals. Pages in the second set show large thumbnails inline, with links to original pictures.
Small thumbnails are up to 120x120 pixels, and typically 5KB - 10KB. Large thumbnails ("snapshots") are up to 500x500 pixels -- typically 50KB - 80KB -- and suitable for viewing online. Originals are up to 2048x1536 pixels and suitable for printing. Many originals have been cropped (but not scaled) to smaller size. At the moment (6 Feb 2005) I don't have complete sets (small thumbnail, large thumbnail, original) online for all pictures, but expect to soon.
First set of links: Text-only pages, with links to large thumbnails and to originals. Flowers, Foods, Hotel Scenes, Kodaikkanal, Kolkata - January 2005, Madurai, Ooty (Coonoor, Udagamandalam and Mudamalai), Vellore - November and December 2004, Various Maps , Shops , MIS ICON at Kovai Medical Center Hospital, Traffic and such,
Second set of links, pages that have small thumbnails, with links to large thumbnails and to originals. Flowers, Foods, Hotel Scenes, Kodaikkanal, Kolkata - January 2005, Madurai, Ooty (Coonoor, Udagamandalam and Mudamalai), Vellore - November and December 2004, Various Maps , Shops , MIS ICON at Kovai Medical Center Hospital, Traffic and such,
Third set of links, pages that have large thumbnails, with links to originals. Flowers, Foods, Hotel Scenes, Kodaikkanal, Kolkata - January 2005, Madurai, Ooty (Coonoor, Udagamandalam and Mudamalai), Vellore - November and December 2004, Various Maps , Shops , MIS ICON at Kovai Medical Center Hospital, Traffic and such,