WELCOME GOOD PEOPLE!

UPDATE July 2025

My sites are optimized for fast broadband or 5G cellular to showcase higher resolution photos and video MULTIMEDIA. This may give slow Internet loading issues.

I migrated my personal websites over to new https SSL secure encrypted hosting servers -- and hit hundreds of anomalies in my Daverj Force Frame coding -- it doesn't play well with SSL.

I have most of them fixed, but you will notice I open a lot more pages in NEW WINDOWS or NEW TABS to ensure they open -- you will need to use your BACK BUTTON a lot more, and close windows to return.

IF YOU ARE STILL LOOKING AT MY STUFF -- THANK YOU!

IF YOU ARE NEW TO MY NETWORK -- WELCOME!

My sites have logged over 2,000,000,000 HITS to date.

And it is STILL my honor to serve the Good People of the World with the fruits of my labor.

GARY BALLARD






This is way old:

Our high-resolution photos and video movies may have problems loading on slow Internet connections — the solution is to give the pictures time to load or get broadband (cable, satellite or DSL). We are hosted with godaddy.com in Arizona (USA). Any problems may be temporary anomalies with hosting servers or data routes between your computer and Arizona.

MOVIES AND AUDIO DON'T PLAY?

Apple cancelled QuickTime support and all my movies and audio fils stopped working in newer web browsers (they still work fine in macOS 10.6.8) -- I CONVERTED SOME FAVORITES TO .mp4 and inserted manual links to play the movies -- you will need to look for them...

Our large movies will REQUIRE the Apple® QuickTime® player DOWNLOAD FREE for Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista.

Also:

• If you want your picture removed, or
• If you want to add text or links to your pictures, or
• If you want to correct errors, misrepresentations, omissions in the webmaster's writing.

After reading our USER AGREEMENT please visit the http://www.kumeyaay.info and the www.gballard.net websites.

If you need further help or want to comment, please EMAIL the webmaster, Gary G. Ballard, directly.

If you are using a Mac computer (and my pictures look washed out), your monitor is profiled at 1.8 gamma — the fix is to set your monitor gamma to 2.2.

If my pictures look super saturated, especially in the REDS), you are using a wide-gamut monitor — here is the problem explained and how to fix.

I publish only sRGB on the Web and embed ICC profiles in very few images — if you are opening photos off my websites in Photoshop® the correct move will be to ASSIGN sRGB profile to see my professional true color.

I RECOMMEND USING FIREFOX and setting its FULL COLOR MANAGEMENT Value 1 for the best color experience.

FIREFOX - MOZILLA has intermittent BUG problems with custom actions used in this portfolio.

If you get "CONTENT ENCODING ERROR The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression" please report the error to FireFox, then use any other Web browser like SAFARI (Mac & Windows), GOOGLE CHROME (Windows & Mac OS-X), CAMINO (Mac), OPERA (Mac OSX, Windows, Solaris, O/S2, Linux, FreeBSD i386, BeOS), and of course Microsoft EXPLORER (PC). This BUG is specific to FIREFOX and is discussed HERE on adobe.com.