function initImage() {

	image = document.getElementById('thephoto1');
	setOpacity(image, 100);
	
	image = document.getElementById('thephoto2');
	setOpacity(image, 0);
	
	image = document.getElementById('thephoto3');
	setOpacity(image, 0);
	
	image = document.getElementById('thephoto4');
	setOpacity(image, 0);
	
window.setTimeout('fader(2)', 6000);
}

function fadeIn(objId,opacity) {
	if (document.getElementById) {
		obj = document.getElementById(objId);
		var objnr = objId.substr(8,1);
		objnr -= 1;
		if (objnr == 0) objnr = 4;
		altobj = document.getElementById('thephoto' + objnr);
		
		if (opacity <= 100) {
			setOpacity(obj, opacity);
			var altopacity = 100 - opacity;
			setOpacity(altobj, altopacity);
			opacity += 1;
			window.setTimeout("fadeIn('"+objId+"',"+opacity+")", 1);
		}
	}
}

function setOpacity(obj, opacity) {
	opacity = (opacity == 100)?99.999:opacity;
	// IE/Win
	obj.style.filter = "alpha(opacity="+opacity+")";
	// Safari<1.2, Konqueror
	obj.style.KHTMLOpacity = opacity/100;
	// Older Mozilla and Firefox
	obj.style.MozOpacity = opacity/100;
	// Safari 1.2, newer Firefox and Mozilla, CSS3
	obj.style.opacity = opacity/100;
}

function fader(nr) {

imageId = "thephoto" + nr;
image = document.getElementById(imageId);
image.style.visibility = "visible";
fadeIn(imageId,0);

nr += 1;
if (nr == 5) nr = 1;

window.setTimeout("fader("+nr+")",7500);
}

window.onload = function () {initImage();};