Regehr Family Morocco Page

We (Dave, Judy, John, and Eric) lived in Settat, Morocco from the summer of 1984 through the summer of 1987, while Dave worked for the Dryland Farming Project. Eric was in 5th-7th grade and John was in 7th-9th grade. Settat is on the road between Casablanca and Marrakech, about an hour south of Casablanca; it's circled in red on this map.

I (John) took lots of pictures with an old Mamiya SLR; we had a large supply of black and white film that I developed in a makeshift darkroom in the basement. Unfortunately we didn't have an enlarger so generally all I saw were contact prints. This bothered me on and off until the fall of 1999 when I had around 300 negatives scanned to PhotoCD.

I've picked out some of the more interesting pictures and loosely categorized them; I plan to add captions as time permits. The pictures from Europe are from the same time period; we took a car ferry across the Straits of Gibraltar several times.

• A Street in Marrakech gives a good description of daily life in Morocco as seen by a foreigner.
• Those planning to visit Morocco should grab a Rough Guide or Lonely Planet.
• These negatives were scanned to PhotoCD by ADI; I'm very happy with the results. Conversion to jpeg was done using ImageMagick driven by a hacked version of a script by Phil Greenspun, which is available here. You can find the original script on this page, which contains a lot of good information about putting PhotoCD images on the web.

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Last modified: Fri Jan 5 11:30:47 2001