What is the Island Images Website?
 
Island Images
Manxland
 All pictures on this website are  © Jon Wornham
 
Welcome to the 'about the site & me' page, really just a little history of how it all started, what it is now and a brief bio to let you know who I am.
 
My name's Jon Wornham and I work as an Air Traffic Controller at Ronaldsway Airport. 
I'm married to Georgie and we live in Onchan. Before moving to the Isle of Man in 1990 we lived in Ayrshire, Scotland and I worked at Prestwick Airport.
I'm originally from Hertfordshire, England and Georgie from Rutherglen, Scotland.
 
I first produced an IOM site  back in January 1998, really just as an experiment to see if I could put a simple website together. When I started receiving emails from around the world I realized that there was a lot of interest in pictures of my adopted homeland.  Initially it was intended to be an illustrated guide to the Isle of Man, but things have changed a bit over the years. Indeed things have now come full circle and as a result of 'Island Images' some of my pictures appear in a printed guidebook to the Isle of Man, published by Landmark.
Buy the guide at Amazon UK
 
Since those early days it has grown massively and it's now a photographic site for some of my Isle of Man pictures.  

The camera equipment I use has improved hugely since the early days enabling me to post larger and better quality pictures.  

The picture on the left was one of the first on the site and is in its original size. Taken using the Fuji DS7 camera, this really was the full size of picture that the camera took!
 
For 2007, the Isle of Man Scenic pictures have  appeared in a monthly format and are now linked so that you can move from one picture to the next. Trains, Aircraft & Ships remain in their own sections. There are also some other specialist sections - see the Alphabetical Site Guide. 
 
Pictures from 2007 onwards also still have the Exif photo data attached, so if you want to know technical details of the picture you can use a suitable program to decode it.
Most of the later Scenic pictures have links  to map extracts taken from the 
IOM Govt Outdoor Leisure Map.
 
 
I've been interested in photography for many years, but it's only with the coming of affordable digital cameras that I was able to indulge my hobby to the extent I would like without bankrupting myself! 

I have used a variety of digital cameras since 1998 to produce the site, see the page linked below for details. Until about 2000/2001 I used film as well but although still possessing a couple of film cameras including the wondeful but weighty Canon T90, I haven't used them since then. 

Digital Cameras used past and present for Island Images
 
All the pictures are post processed to some extent using Paint Shop Pro - a brilliant program at a fraction of the cost of Photoshop. I started with version 4 and now use both versions 9 & 10. I also use Bibble for processing RAW images, Dynamic Photo HDR for the HDR pics and PTgui for stitching together panoramas.

 The site is produced using Netscape Composer - old and basic but it suits me. I originally used a screen resolution of 1280x1024 so things are really scaled for at least this size, - 1024x768 is OK and you can just about get away with 800x600. To see the pictures at their best you also need the colour set to 32 bit. If you don't know how to do this you can e-mail me.
 
If you are a 'WORNHAM, WARNHAM, WERNHAM, WIRDNAM, or any other similar sounding surname' yourself you may be interested to look at my brother's family history pages at: www.wornham.info
 
Cheers!
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