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  • Spider: 3 Views

    I happened to catch this interesting spider on a glass door, and snapped a couple of different photos.  I believe it’s Selenopidae, or the wall crab spider.  Because it’s so flat, depth of field/focus issues are not as much a problem as with ordinary macro photography.  Because the spider is about an inch across, not…

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  • Running Barefoot for Charity in Namibia

    Last weekend, I joined a hundred or so other runners in Windhoek’s northern township, Katutura – which means “place we do not want to live” – to run as many laps as possible for charity.  As I wrote in a previous post, the event was “Namibia Runs for Charity”; and as a barefoot runner since…

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  • Video: 24 Hours at Etosha

    Along the southern fringes of Etosha National Park, Namibia’s flagship park, are scattered a handful of camps and watering holes. The oldest of these is Okaukuejo, 18 km from Anderson gate in the southwest corner of the park. At Okaukuejo, the “bush chalets” are oriented around the watering hole in a westward-facing orientation, which makes…

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  • Document One Day On Earth

    There’s a wonderful project called One Day on Earth where they are asking for help in documenting just that.  If you happened to catch some video on 11.11.11 (sorry for the late notice!) you can sign up at the site and contribute your content for consideration in a feature film.  The same was done on 10.10.10…

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  • Zuccotti Park with a Touch of Irony

    Love this video I found on The Atlantic’s website, in which documentary filmmaker Casey Neistat sets footage of the raid on Zucotti Park in the wee hours of November 15, to Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York. Sometimes the right music can make all the difference.

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