Welcome to the photo area for the Big E 2000 Internet site

The work area provides a space for you to view images from the 2000 Big E as they become available. Over the course of the fair approximately 10,500 images were acquired by John Robison using two Nikon D1 digital camera systems. Now that the fair has ended we are in the process of identifying and naming each frame. Duplicate and unusable (out of focus, underexposed, etc) shots are being discarded. The remaining processed images will become available for viewing during October 2000.

All images here are posted in small size for ease of use. High quality files and prints are available to exhibitors— contact us for details. Note: these images are not available for general sale; they are only available to the owners of the property or business depicted.

Because this is a work area the pages have not been made pretty or optimized for speed in loading. If you have a slow Internet connection it may take several minutes to load the exhibitor index pages.

This site is for the use of employees and agents of the Eastern States Exposition and its exhibitors and their employees and agents. All material is copyrighted and may not be copied or used without permission. Selected photos appearing here will be used on www.thebigeonline.com and www.thebige.com during site upgrades this winter.

Index:

The Portfolio area contains assorted images of the exhibits, events, crowds, staff, and other people.

The exhibitor image area contains photos of Big E exhibitors grouped by area.

Other images will be posted as available. As of today they are:
Draft Horse show * includes a few other horses
Mardi Gras parade
Rides and other things on the midway
Big E People is a collection of people working at the fair * this gallery includes the after-show photos for JJ
Crowds
Grange
CraftAdventure
Storrowton
Mandy Moore performance as requested by JJ
Presentation and Presentation2 (2 different links) has frames for Wayne
Mo Rockin performance
Shriners on parade
See the crowds as they toss beads from the parade floats
See a few scenes from the Haunted Tunnel, sponsored by American Saw to benefit United Way

Note: many of these pictures appear dark because they have not been processed for Internet use. In most cases final images will be brighter.

Changes to this site:

October 14 - the galleries for draft horses (61 images), parade (210 images), rides (110 images), and Big E people (75 images) were put up.
October 15 - the crowd photos (27 images), CraftAdventure (25 images) and Grange (10 images) went up.
October 23 - Mo Rockin, Shriners, Presentations 1 and 2, Mandy Moore and Storrowton went up.
October 24 - the parade crowd photos went up
October 30 - the Haunted Tunnel went up

Note to Big E Exhibitors:  

We did our best to take flattering photographs of everyone. In some cases we took multiple photos. You can view these photos by location. Note — the index pages for each street, area, and building are large and may take a long time to load. If you don't see your booth don't be alarmed. Come back again soon — we are indexing and updating these pages regularly and we may not have posted your photos yet.

Contact our webmaster if you have chosen a photo from our pages for your site. Be sure to give us the complete name as shown in the index page.

If you chose to supply an image for your site on www.thebige.com you may supply it in one of two ways:
email a JPG or TIFF file to our webmaster (preferred);
mail a CD, floppy disk, slide or print to us at the following address:
Big E Images
C/O John Robison Photography
347 Page Boulevard
Springfield, MA 01104
Be sure to enclose a self addressed stamped envelope if you want image materials returned.

If you have other comment or requests direct those to the webmaster also.

Links:
www.robisonphoto.com
www.thebigeonline.com