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Kantega and Thamserku Ama Dablam Everest sunset from Gokyo Ri Matterhorn
Porthcurno Beach, Cornwall Young Dudettes, Annapurna Circuit The Matthew, Bristol Churchill, Bristol Balloon Fiesta
Tiger Temple, Kanchanaburi Tengboche Monastery, Nepal Everest from Kala Patthar Tengboche Monastery, Nepal
Churchill, Bristol Balloon Fiesta Royal York Crescent, Bristol Swan, Bristol Harbour Fireworks, Clifton Suspension Bridge (150 years since it opened, 7 Dec 2014)
Blaise Castle Estate, Bristol Iguazu Falls Porthcurno Beach, Cornwall Young Dudes, Manang
Wastwater, Lake District Bristol Harbour Pendle Hill, Lancashire Clevedon Pier, sunset
The Potala, Lhasa Ganden Monastery, 4500m, Tibet Boudhanath Stupa, Kathmandu Grand Palace, Bangkok

Dave Gott

Hello! I'm a retired IT Consultant based in Bristol, UK.

I enjoy hiking, mountains, travel and landscape photography and creating the occasional website - some of which are illustrated below (and bit out of date now).

The websites are designed for a bigger-than-mobile-phone screen and need (as usual) javascript and cookies enabled in your browser.





Images

Some of my travel photos eg. Nepal, Alps, South America, Bristol etc.

Images


davegott.com/yourlife

The Story of Your Life from Pre-Conception to Death - key events from history, technology, sport, film and music juxtaposed on Your Personal Timeline, and your Lifeometer (according to the Office of National Statistics, based on your DOB and gender). Click an Album or Film image for details in context (in the context of my Music or Film websites - details below). If you have a Spotify account you can click on an album to listen to it. Alas Netflix, Amazon etc don't have an API so you can't click on a film to watch it.

Example:   davegott.com/yourlife/index.html?dob=1968-01-01


Your Life - Summary


davegott.com/music

Features 1200 artists and 22000 albums chosen by a wide range of critics as amongst the best ever. Click on an album or playlist to listen via Spotify (if you have a Spotify account). Includes Artist's Bio, album covers, reviews and links, and links to related artists within the website. This website was inspired by Robert Dimery's book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". Reading his excellent book I thought "If only this was a website I could ...".

Examples:   Uncut Magazine: Best 75 Albums of 2018   David Bowie


Music



davegott.com/films

This website began with a simple question "How do I write some code to identify the best films currently showing in Bristol?". The website also figures out the best ever films by Genre, Actor, Director and Year, the best films currently showing in the UK by town / city (for up to 600 towns) and the best Actors and Directors for every decade since 1915, and of all time. Each category offers List, Poster and Detail views.

Examples:
Best 500 Action Films   Best Films now showing in London   Best Alfred Hitchcock Films   Best Films of 2018   Best Actors by decade   Best Directors by decade   Best Clint Eastwood (Actor) Films - Detail View

Films

Image Transitions Slideshow


SlideShow Aspect 16:9

     

SlideShow Aspect 3:2

Some of my photos using image transitions from WOW Slider. Can take a few seconds to get going properly (especially on a slow connection).


Slideshow 1C



davegott.com/nobel-prize-winners

View Images and Biographies of all Nobel Prize Winners filtered by Category, Country, Year, Gender or name. Choose from 4 lengths of biography for each winner and 9 font sizes!


Nobel Prize Winners



Remote Control Bristol Harbour Camera

This project involved mounting a full frame digital SLR on my bathroom window sill, 2 storeys up, with a view along Bristol Harbour to the M-shed Museum and Prince Street Bridge. The camera could be triggered remotely via email, manually from a local computer or automatically driven by a timetable linked to sunrise times. Click the above link for a slide show from some of the resulting images.


iot_camera_examples.jpg

slides_bristol_harbour.jpg



Beautiful Interactive Graphs Website

This was amazing. Far better than sliced bread. But Java support has been dropped by all browsers now so all you can do is gaze forlornly at the static images below.

This was a project to try the Java language and to animate some of the beautiful graphs in a fabulous book by Jean-Paul Delahaye, Professeur, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille : "Geometric and Artistic Graphics - Design Generation with Microcomputers", MacMillan 1986. For this I converted the original Basic programs to Java and added colour, detail, rotation, animation and an interactive website.

Interactive Graphs Interactive Graphs Graphs



Copyright and image use

All images on these websites are copyright Dave Gott. They may be downloaded for personal non-profit use or for promoting Bristol - if so please credit the source : "davegott.com".



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