Site History for 2001
End of year statistics:
| 2001 | 2000 | |
| pages | 325 | 188 |
| regular photographs | 1769 | 1264 |
| wallpaper photographs | 184 | 0 |
| airshows and military museums | 39 | 0 |
| life on earth | 90 | 0 |
| travel | 37 | 0 |
| USA | 18 | 0 |
2001/12/21 Added a page showing some of the sights around and about Wellington.
2001/12/20 Added a page about the city of Wellington, capital of New Zealand, and a New Zealand cities photo gallery.
2001/12/15 Added photos to the nature wallpaper page of a leopard frog, a red-crowned parakeet, some variable oystercatchers and a seagull in flight.
2001/12/14 Added a photo of a great blue heron to the nature wallpaper page.
2001/12/13 Added a photo of a brown pelican to the nature wallpaper page.
2001/12/12 Added a photo of a green heron to the nature wallpaper page.
2001/12/11 Added a page about the inland sights of Tobago.
2001/12/07 Added a photography page and a page about the Pentax camera bodies MZ-M, MZ-5 and Z-1.
2001/12/08 Added a Solomon Islands Underwater page, a Solomon Island nudibranchs page and a Solomon Islands Underwater photo gallery.
2001/11/20 Added a page showing the inside of the USS Arizona memorial, added these photos to the Pearl Harbor photo gallery, and put one of these photos with the USS Arizona and the USS Missouri onto the military museum wallpaper page.
2001/11/19 Added a New Jersey page, and added a photo of a white-mouthed moray eel and two flamingo tongue shells to the nature wallpaper page.
2001/11/16 Added a photo of the USS Missouri to the aircraft wallpaper page, which was replaced on 2010/12/28 by a better photo of the USS Missouri, and a couple of photos of giant clams to the nature wallpaper page.
2001/11/14 Added a Pearl Harbor military museum page, together with a photo gallery, a page showing the outside of the USS Arizona memorial, and a wallpaper photo of the USS Arizona memorial, which was replaced on 2010/12/17 by a better photo of the USS Arizona memorial.
2001/11/13 Added some butterfly photographs to the nature wallpaper page: a great spangled fritillary, a blue triangle (which was replaced on 2011/02/18 with a better photo of a blue triangle), a monarch and a viceroy.
2001/11/12 Added a photo gallery for the Blue Angels displays at the Wilkes-Barre airshow of 2000.
2001/11/10 Added a page about Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
2001/11/09 Added a page about the Wilkes-Barre airshow of 2000, and a page for the Blue Angels two plane display at that show.
2001/11/08 Added photos to the airshow wallpaper page of the Blue Angels (which was later replaced by a much better photo of the same formation) an F-18C Hornet (which was replaced on 2006/01/12 by a much better photo of an F-18C Hornet) and an A-1 Skyraider.
2001/11/07 Added a New York city page and an Australian Bird photo gallery.
2001/11/02 Added to the travel wallpaper page various London scenes: Tower Bridge, the Tower of London (which was replaced on 2008/04/29 by a better photo of the Tower of London), a Tower of London crow, the Houses of Parliament, (which was replaced on 2006/04/16 by a better photo of the houses of parliament), a woman sitting on a Buckingham Palace statue, a guardsman at Buckingham Palace, soccer fans and a mounted guardsman and soccer fans on a Trafalgar Square lion.
2001/11/01 Added a Vanuatu page and a page about native dancing at Yaohnanen village.
2001/10/30 Added a reptiles page.
2001/10/29 create a page about the geothermal area centered around the New Zealand city of Rotorua, a page about Rotorua mud pools and a New Zealand North Island scenic photo gallery.
2001/10/26 created a London page, a Tower Bridge page and a Sights of London photo gallery.
2001/10/25 created a page showing Niagara Falls from the air, and a Niagara Falls photo gallery.
2001/10/24 created a page showing the Thunderbirds display team flying near the buildings of downtown Chicago, and added these photos to the Chicago Air and Water Show 2001 Thunderbirds photo gallery.
2001/10/19 created a page about the Air Force Thunderbirds team display at the Chicago Air and Water Show 2001, and added these photos to the Chicago Air and Water Show 2001 Thunderbirds photo gallery.
2001/10/18 Added photos to the travel wallpaper page of Red Beach in Guadalcanal, the hand-pulled San Pedro ferry in Belize, and the North Acropolis of the Maya city of Tikal, which was replaced on 2009/06/03 by a better photo of the North Acropolis of the Maya city of Tikal.
2001/10/17 Added photos to the travel wallpaper page of a Tobago sunset, Great Courland Bay, the sea floor at the World War Two seaplane base at Ghavutu in the Solomon Islands, a funny sign near North Cape in New Zealand, and a flock of sheep blocking a New Zealand road.
2001/10/16 Added photos to the aircraft wallpaper page of a banking F-117 "Nighthawk" stealth fighter, which was replaced on 2006/12/29 by a better photo of a banking F-117 "Nighthawk" stealth fighter, an XF-85 Golbin parasitic fighter, a B-47 Stratojet and a B-58 Hustler.
2001/10/13 Added a photo of an A-10 Warthog to the aircraft wallpaper page (this photo has now been superseded by a better one, which was itself replaced by an even better one on 2006/09/15).
2001/10/12 Added photos to the nature wallpaper page of a koala, a giant clam, a turkey vulture, an American toad, a Southern Pacific rattlesnake, a caiman and a golden tegu lizard.
2001/10/11 Added photos to the nature wallpaper page of a rufous-tailed jacamar, (which was replaced on 2010/01/26 by a better photo of a rufous-tailed jacamar), a Western grebe, a couple of festive tiger beetles, a Solomon Islands dragonfly, and a green darner dragonfly.
2001/10/10 Added photos to the aircraft wallpaper page of an F-18D Hornet taking off (which was replaced on 2006/01/17 by a better photo of an F-18D Hornet taking off); an F4F Wildcat (which was replaced on 2006/01/04 by a better photo of an F4F Wildcat); an F4U Corsair (which was replaced on 2004/09/30 by a better photo of the very same aircraft banking sharply, which was replaced on 2011/04/25 by a better photo of an F4U banking sharply); a P-51C Mustang taking off (which was replaced on 2014/04/21 by a better photo of a P-51C Mustang taking off) and a Sabrejet and MiG-15 flying together (which was later replaced by a better photo of the same aircraft in formation).
2001/10/09 Added photos to the nature wallpaper page of a green clearwing dragonfly, a white-lined sphinx moth, a hummingbird moth, a tree frog, an ocellated turkey (which was replaced on 2010/01/22 by a better photo of an ocellated turkey), a white-necked jacobin hummingbird and a leopard sea cucumber.
2001/10/06 Added another photo of a monarch butterfly caterpillar to the nature wallpaper page.
2001/10/04 Added a photo of the Statue of Liberty to the USA wallpaper page.
2001/10/02 Added a photo of a hovering AV-8B Harrier to the aircraft wallpaper page and a photo of the town of Flores in Guatemala to the travel wallpaper page.
2001/10/01 Added a photo of a spinecheek anemonefish to the nature wallpaper page, which was replaced on 2010/02/15 by a better photo of a spinecheek anemonefish.
2001/09/26 Added a photo of a vulture at Maracas Bay in Trinidad to the travel wallpaper page and photos of an A-10 Warthog, a PV-2 Harpoon (which was replaced on 2011/05/11 by a better photo of a PV-2 Harpoon) and a pair of F-104 Starfighters in formation (which was replaced on 2014/04/24 by a better photo of an F-104 Starfighter) to the aircraft wallpaper page.
2001/09/25 Added a photo of Trinidad's Pitch Lake to the travel wallpaper page.
2001/09/24 Added a photo of Blanding's turtle to the nature wallpaper page.
2001/09/23 split the wallpaper page into four sections, and added to the aircraft wallpaper page a photo of two B-17 Flying Fortresses flying in formation.
2001/09/21 Added a Chicago Air and Water Show 2001 photo gallery and a page showing the Thunderbirds diamond formation at the Chicago Air and Water Show 2001.
2001/09/16 Added some photos of some extraordinary looking caterpillars and a flying white-lined sphinx moth to the wallpaper page.
2001/09/13 Added a photo of a B-1B Lancer bomber to the wallpaper page [this photo has been superseded by a better photo].
2001/09/12 Added a photo of an Anna's Hummingbird to the wallpaper page.
2001/09/11 Added photos of lower Manhattan to the wallpaper page.
2001/09/09 Added a photo of a roseate spoonbill to the wallpaper page.
2001/09/06 Added a page about the B-1B Lancer bombers flying at the Chicago Air and Water Show 2001.
2001/09/05 Added a photo of a black mangrove buckeye butterfly to the wallpaper page.
2001/09/04 Added a Chicago Air and Water Show 2001 Thunderbirds photo gallery, and a photo of the navy Blue Angels display team in tight formation, which was later replaced by a better photo of the team in the same diamond formation.
2001/09/03 Added an F-14 Tomcat to the naval aircraft wallpaper page, which was replaced on 2005/12/29 by a much better F-14 Tomcat photo.
2001/09/02 Added a Chicago Air and Water Show 2001 page and a page about solo Thunderbird displays at the show.
2001/08/30 Added a photo of two members of the USAF Thunderbirds display team to the wallpaper page.
2001/08/27 Added a photo of a violaceous trogon to the wallpaper page.
2001/08/24 Added a photo of Niagara Falls page.
2001/08/22 Added a photo of a coatimundi and the Hiroshima atomic bomb dome to the wallpaper page.
2001/08/21 Added to the wallpaper page a photo of the Temple of the Grand Jaguar in the Maya city of Tikal in present-day Guatemala, which was replaced on 2009/05/26 by a better photo of the Temple of the Grand Jaguar.
2001/08/16 Added a photo of a Flying Fortress to the wallpaper page, which was replaced in April of 2004 by a better photo of the same aircraft.
2001/08/15 Added a photo of Clark's Grebe to the wallpaper page.
2001/08/14 Added photos to the wallpaper page of a Supermarine Spitfire flying at the Oshkosh 2001 airshow and a spicebush swallowtail butterfly.
2001/08/13 Added a photo to the wallpaper page of a British Sea Venom naval fighter plane flying at the Oshkosh 2001 airshow.
2001/08/12 at long last, created a New Zealand page, and added a photo of a monarch butterfly caterpillar to the wallpaper page.
2001/08/11 Added photos to the wallpaper page of a great blue heron, of one jumping spider holding another, a polyphemus moth caterpillar, a mourning cloak butterfly (which was replaced on 2006/03/02 by a better photo of a mourning cloak butterfly), and a great spangled fritillary butterfly.
2001/08/10 created a Delaware Water Gap Fall Foliage photo gallery, and added a photo of the Chion-in temple bell in Kyoto, Japan to the wallpaper page.
2001/08/09 Added a page about weird and wonderful aircraft at the USAF museum, and added these photos to a newly created USAF museum misc aircraft photo gallery.
2001/08/08 Added a photo of an F-82 Twin Mustang fighter plane at the USAF Air Force museum to the wallpaper page.
2001/08/06 Added photos of tube worms and a snowflake moray eel to the wallpaper page, and created a new page for the USAF museum in Dayton, Ohio.
2001/08/05 Added a page about the beached American World War 2 tank landing ship LST 342 and a Solomon Islands photo gallery.
2001/08/03 Added another photo of a beached American World War 2 tank landing ship in the Solomon Islands to the wallpaper page.
2001/08/01 Added a page about the Solomon Islands to the travel section.
2001/07/31 Added a photo of a beached American World War 2 tank landing ship in the Solomon Islands to the wallpaper page.
2001/07/30 Added a photo of clownfish on a wreck to the wallpaper page.
2001/07/25 Added a photo of a black and white spiky caterpillar to the wallpaper page.
2001/07/25 Added photos to the wallpaper page of a Virginia Ctenuchid moth, six-spotted tiger beetle and a dragonfly.
2001/07/23 created a page about gannet behavior in the Muriwai beach gannet colony, and also added a gannet photo gallery.
2001/07/19 Added a page about New Zealand birds.
2001/07/18 Added photos of whooping cranes and a siberian crane chick to the wallpaper page.
2001/07/17 Added a page about the Australasian gannet colony at Muriwai beach in New Zealand.
2001/07/13 Added a photo of an Australian brolga crane to the wallpaper page.
2001/07/07 Added a photo of nesting Australasian gannets to the wallpaper page.
2001/07/05 Added a photo of an Australasian gannet to the wallpaper page.
2001/07/03 Added a photos of a kea and a tui to the wallpaper page.
2001/07/01 Added photos to the wallpaper page of a six-spotted tiger beetle facing forwards and an F-15 Eagle fighter jet flying in formation with a P-51D Mustang, which was replaced on 2007/02/22 by a better photo of an F-15 Eagle flying in formation with a P-51D Mustang.
2001/06/30 Added a photo of a wing walker on top of a jet-powered Waco biplane at the Oshkosh airshow to the wallpaper page.
2001/06/29 Added photos to the wallpaper page of an F-15 Eagle fighter jet doing a very tight bank at very low altitude, and a dolphin jumping out of the water off the Big Island of Hawaii.
2001/06/28 Added photo of a turtle to the wallpaper page.
2001/06/27 Added photos to the wallpaper page of Bowen Falls in New Zealand's Milford Sound, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, two photos of a B-2 bomber flying, the Blue Angels' C-130 Hercules support plane doing a rocket-assisted take off, a Blue Angels F-18 Hornet doing a very steep climb straight off the runway, and a World War Two era Heinkel He111 bomber.
2001/06/26 Added photos to the wallpaper page of New Zealand scenes: Sandfly Point in Milford Sound, Mitre Peak in Milford Sound and kayaking in Abel Tasman National Park.
2001/06/25 Added photos to the wallpaper page of a New Zealand kea bird, Sandfly Point in New Zealand's Milford Sound, and a Royal New Zealand Air Force C130 Hercules doing a crazy maneuver at an air show.
2001/06/24 Added an American Seasons and Celebrations page, an article about people being killed in Chicago by icicles falling from skyscrapers (which I later removed because it was a copyright violation), and a page about Fall foliage around the lakes of the Delaware Water Gap.
2001/06/22 Added 2 photos of American Fall Foliage to the wallpaper page.
2001/06/21 Added a page about a juvenile sandhill crane I saw in Illinois, and added photos of it to the wading birds of the USA photo gallery, and created a page about krill in New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds, with accompanying photos in the New Zealand Underwater photo gallery, and a large image on the wallpaper page.
2001/06/20 Added a New Zealand Underwater page.
2001/06/19 Added New Zealand's Mt Cook, a bubbling mud pool at Rotorua, and a New Zealand fur seal basking in the sun to the wallpaper page.
2001/06/12 created an Insects of the USA page, a page about Caterpillars of Chain O' Lakes park and an American Caterpillars photo gallery.
2001/06/06 Added 4 macro photos of caterpillars at Chain O' Lakes park (Illinois, USA) to the wallpaper page.
2001/06/05 Added a page of links to Lizard and Reptile websites.
2001/06/02 Added a page of links to insect websites.
2001/05/28 Added pages of links to other websites: travel website links, underwater life website links, USA places website links.
2001/05/26 created an airshow photo gallery, aircraft museum photo gallery and USA cities photo gallery.
2001/05/24 Added pages of links to other websites: airshow website links, aircraft museum website links, bird website links, and USA cities website links.
2001/05/13 Added a page about Birds of the USA, a wading birds of the USA photo gallery, a page about adult sandhill cranes, and added some of these photos to the wallpaper page.
2001/04/05 create a page with photos of a Heinkel He111 bomber flying at the Frederick airshow 2000, and added these photos to a newly created Frederick airshow 2000 Axis aircraft photo gallery.
2001/04/04 Added B-2 stealth bomber photos to the Frederick airshow 2000 modern aircraft photo galleries, and to the wallpaper page.
2001/04/03 Added a page about the Frederick airshow of 2000, a page of B-2 stealth bomber flypast photos and a page of B-2 stealth bomber closeups.
2001/04/01 Added a page about Life in America, with links to a page of differences between American and New Zealand vocabulary, a page of differences between the American and the New Zealand accent, and a page of American phrases.
2001/03/28 Added photos of the Comet dive bomber to the Yasukuni-jinja war museum photo gallery.
2001/03/27 Added a page about the Yasukuni-jinja war museum in Tokyo, a right-wing article (in English) from the museum's website, and a page about the Comet dive bomber displayed in the museum.
2001/03/22 Added Pitch Lake photos to a newly created Trinidad thumbnail gallery, and combined all of the Belize underwater thumbnail galleries into a single Belize underwater thumbnail gallery.
2001/03/21 Added a Trinidad and Tobago page, a page of funny signs from Trinidad and Tobago, and added the funny signs to a newly created Trinidad and Tobago thumbnail gallery.
2001/03/18 Added a page about red-billed tropicbirds on Little Tobago, added a red-billed tropicbird picture to the wallpaper page, and created a Tobago bird thumbnail gallery and a Trinidad bird thumbnail gallery.
2001/02/20 Added a page about my father, and added these photos to my family thumbnail gallery.
2001/02/19 Added a page of signs which use English because it's fashionable, but mess it up, and added these photos to the miscellaneous Japanese topics thumbnail gallery.
2001/02/16 Added a page about Japanese restaurants, and added these photos to the miscellaneous Japanese topics thumbnail gallery.
2001/02/04 Added a page about Japanese toilets, and added these photos to the miscellaneous Japanese topics thumbnail gallery.
2001/02/01 Added a page of hilarious English mistranslations and mis-spellings in Japan, and added these photos to the miscellaneous Japanese topics thumbnail gallery.
2001/01/29 Added an extraordinary photograph of an airliner passing across the face of the sun to the miscellaneous photos page.
2001/01/24 Added another photo of Himeji Castle to the wallpaper page.
2001/01/23 Added a page about the city of Himeji, a page with exterior views of Himeji castle, and a Himeji thumbnail gallery.
2001/01/22 Added Japan's Himeji Castle to the wallpaper page.
2001/01/22 moved this website from http://members.nbci.com/r_seaman/ to www.richard-seaman.com.
2001/01/21 updated the Giant Wood Spider page with interesting information, and added a photo of lava from Kilauea volcano reaching the ocean to the wallpaper page.
2001/01/20 Added five photos of San Francisco to the wallpaper page, and a page about the extremely beautiful Japanese Tiger Beetle, which I also added to the Japanese Insects and Spiders thumbnail gallery.
2001/01/17 Added a page of surfers doing cutbacks and top turns on Oahu's North Shore.
2001/01/15 Added a page of classic surfing moves on Oahu's North Shore, and made additions to the wallpaper page: Kinkaku-ji, The Golden Pavilion (two photos), and a surfer in the tube at the Banzai Pipeline.
2001/01/14 Added a page about the Surfing Lifestyle on Oahu's North Shore.
2001/01/13 Added Hawaii's Kualoa Point and a surfer on Oahu's North Shore to the wallpaper page.
2001/01/11 Added the Great Buddha statue from Todai-ji temple to the wallpaper page. Also created a miscellaneous photos page and added pictures of a hummingbird which was caught and killed by a praying mantis.
2001/01/10 Added three pictures of Giant Wood spiders from the Japanese island of Okinawa to the wallpaper page.
2001/01/07 Added a page about boogie boarders riding huge waves on Oahu's North Shore, and added this page to the North Shore thumbnail gallery, relocated and revamped the "about me" page to include a link to a page about my family, and a contact details page, and added a wallpaper page (along with a description of PC wallpaper ) to allow people to download large versions of the photos on the website. I put pictures from the boogie boarder page I added today onto the wallpaper page, as well as wallpaper of Niagara Falls.
2001/01/04 Added a page about surfing on Oahu's North Shore, a page showing surfers doing aerials on Oahu's North Shore, and a North Shore thumbnail gallery.
2001/01/01 Added an Insects and Spiders page, a Japanese Insects and Spiders page, a page about some enormous Giant Wood Spiders on Okinawa, and a Japanese Insects and Spiders thumbnail gallery.