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About HolyCow Mania
HolyCow Mania was shot in Delhi, India by photographer and computer programmer Peter Danford. The site follows Danford's The Tibet Game, a popular travel adventure game shot in Tibet. This site contains an Art Gallery which sells limited edition prints of the finest photographs from the project. It is through sales of fine art photographs that Danford is able to finance the next project, so please lend your support. Gallery images can be sent as gifts too. Credit cards accepted through a secure server.
Thanks for the success of this project are due to Jane Danford, my wife who slogged around polluted Delhi with me in 46ºC heat while pregnant to take pictures of cows.
Also thanks to Jesse Pesta, a friend from our years of living on Lamma Island in Hong Kong. Jesse is the Wall Street Journal correspondent in Delhi, and gave us weeks of accommodation, untold moral support and on the ground help.
Peter and Jane Danford are currently based in Sydney, Australia and are awaiting the delivery of their first child on November 11th. The kid has already traveled to India, Singapore, Australia and the USA in the womb, so we're sure it will like to travel. This site has been produced single handedly by me, the guy typing. I shot twice in Delhi, once for a week and once for two weeks as we were on a trip to Bir, near Dharamsala where we stayed for 2 months. The scanning, stitching, programming, creating, marketing and sales have taken several more months full time.
If you are wondering about the technology behind this, look at the How it Works page on The Tibet Game to see how the panoramas are made.
Panoramas use IBM Hotmedia, a Java based solution.
Image sequences and MP3 audio use Macromedia Flash 4.
Cameras were Olympus OM-2s bodies with Zuiko lenses. Film was Fuji Provia, Astia and Reala. Processing was done mostly at ProfoLab, an excellent little place in Jamrudpur, New Delhi.
Another Peter Danford site:
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