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Hope of Good Hope gets a Sponsor
It seems that the “Home of Good Hope”, a local soup kitchen that feeds approximately 350 desperately poor children in a local township shantytown, has gotten a Dutch “gemeente” (roughly equivalent to a county) as an official sponsor. TAZM Pictures … Continue reading
Posted in Good Causes
Tagged charity, Dutch, Gilze en Rijen, home of good hope, Namibia, Netherlands
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Video: the Home of Good Hope
Every now and then I get an opportunity to take a break from filming bugs and upside down chins and silly stuff, to making a video with some social value. I heard there was a need to show overseas donors … Continue reading
Namibia
Kavango and Caprivi: Scenes from the Kavango – Photos from our trip to north Namibia. Caprivi is for the Birds – Birds photographed in Caprivi, Namibia’s “panhandle.” Scenes from the Caprivi: Nkasa Lupala Tented Lodge – An amazing lodge in the … Continue reading
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Fun with a Baby Brownie
Not long ago, I was looking for a way to cut down on the 7-week turnaround for black and white film processing I’ve had to deal with in Namibia (3 weeks to the U.S., 1 week for processing at Blue … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage cameras
Tagged antique, Baby Brownie Special, black and white, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, Kodak, vintage
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Holi in Bangladesh Part 2: the Ruined Roll
A bit of clicking around this site will reveal I’m a film photographer. And when I went to photograph the Holi celebration for my previous post, I took with me three rolls of film. Only two turned out as intended. … Continue reading
Posted in Bangladesh, film processing
Tagged Amber, D400, film, happy accident, holi, lomo purple
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A Few Words About My Father
At times like this, weird things come into your head. Like how I’ve never heard my Dad sleep for so many hours without snoring. Or how all life is sacred, and with the exception of mosquitoes, any animal in my … Continue reading
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Tagged eulogy, father, fundraiser, illness, Johan Brouns, memory, obituary
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Introducing Kids in Madagascar to Photography: Results (1)
I wrote last time about the youth center, Le Cameleon, we crowdfunded and built in Antananarivo, Madagascar, and the project we organized to introduce a half dozen interested kids to photography, using point-and-shoot film cameras from the 1980s and 90s. … Continue reading
Sharing our Passion: Kids in Madagascar Get a First Taste of Photography
A few years ago, I joined a couple of other folks with a passion for photography and an interest in doing something for the local community in Antananarivo, Madagascar. We collaborated to successfully crowdfund a small youth center that would … Continue reading
My Experience with Kodak AEROCHROME
A few months ago, I’d never heard of “Aerochrome” film. What is aerochrome? According to Kodak, “KODAK AEROCHROME III Infrared Film 1443 is an infrared-sensitive, false-color reversal film intended for various aerial photographic applications where infrared discriminations may yield practical … Continue reading
Posted in Film tests, Photography
Tagged Aerochrome, experimental, film, infrared, Kodak, Madagascar, Rolleiflex
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Twelve Months, Twelve Cameras, Twelve Decades…and One Film. #ATG365
In August 2017, the hosts of podcast Against the Grain discussed photographers’ tendency to immediately look at photos they’ve shot (chimping) and how film photography slows the process down, resulting in an increased emphasis on capturing the photo, without constantly worrying about … Continue reading
Posted in film processing, Photography, general, Vintage cameras
Tagged 365, 400, Against the Grain, antique, chimping, decades, film photography, Kodak, tri-x, vintage cameras
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Reviewing my Newest Addition: A Rolleiflex 2.8c
One of the most attractive and most iconic vintage cameras ever made, in my opinion, is the Rolleiflex Twin Lens Reflex (TLR) camera. Manufactured from 1929 until (in some form) 2015, the Rolleiflex was one of the longest-running camera models … Continue reading
Monsoons in Madagascar: a Blessing and a Curse
Madagascar’s rainy season normally runs from November-ish to February or March. Last year, we hardly even noticed it – beyond a handful of late-night, pretty intense, rainstorms, there was very little rain. And everyone was worried – rice yields were … Continue reading
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Tagged Antananarivo, cyclone, flooding, Madagascar, monsoon, rain, rainy season
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Let it Develop 365 Project
In August 2017, the hosts of podcast Against the Grain discussed photographers’ tendency to immediately look at photos they’ve shot (chimping) and how film photography slows the process down, resulting in an increased emphasis on capturing the photo, without constantly worrying about … Continue reading
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Puppies!!!!
We discovered these guys as 8-day-old pups being carried around (rather roughly) by a group of kids on the streets of Antananarivo. In broken Malagasy, we learned that they had been orphaned when their mom was killed by a car and … Continue reading
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Barefoot in the Malagasy Jungle: the Making of Onja’s Crowdfunding Video (part 3)
In the third and and final installment in this series I have written about a trip we took out to a remote village in Madagascar, to help film a crowdfunding video for a great cause, Onja. In this post I … Continue reading
Posted in Good Causes, Madagascar
Tagged Andovolalina, charity, crowdfunding, Madagascar, Onja, remote, rural, village life
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Barefoot in the Malagasy Jungle: the Making of Onja’s Crowdfunding Video (part 1)
It started back in July when I got an interesting item in my “Google Alerts” for Madagascar. A small NGO was looking for a filmmaker and a social media manager to support their project in eastern Madagascar. I quickly fired … Continue reading
Posted in Good Causes, Madagascar
Tagged Andovolalina, charity, crowdfunding, fundraising, hiking, Madagascar, Mahanoro, NGO, Onja, Project Livelihood, village life
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Children of the Street: Anjezika
“Zanaky Ny Lalana” is a group of street photographers that was brought together about a half year ago with the goal of highlighting the challenges faced by some of Madagascar’s most vulnerable inhabitants. I don’t exactly have much in the way of … Continue reading
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Madagascar’s Mantadia National Park: the Lemurs
Normally when we go on a trip somewhere, we end up with 6-10 really good photos worth sharing, which give an overall impression of the experience. But I have been stalling on this post because the number of close-up lemur … Continue reading
Posted in Madagascar, Wildlife and Nature
Tagged indri, lemur, Madagascar, Mantadia, primate, sifaka
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Flying Solo over the Shenandoah
When I first saw footage taken on DJI’s new consumer drone, my response was, “MUST HAVE.” I’m now on my second camera drone, the 3D Robotics Solo, and I’m still in search of the elusive magical footage – soaring over … Continue reading
Posted in Aerial photography/videography
Tagged 3D Robotics, 3DR, aerial, drone, flight, Shenandoah, snow, Solo, video
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Autumn
We haven’t really seen any real “autumn” to speak of for a number of years, so it has been refreshing to re-experience those surprisingly brisk mornings, doing those runs where the cold air tears at your lungs a little, and … Continue reading
Posted in Washington DC
Tagged analogue, Arlington, autumn, leaves, Ricoh, seasons, Washington
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Remembering Sierra Leone
Today Sierra Leone was officially declared “Ebola-free”, having successfully gone 42 days (two incubation periods) without a new case of Ebola. In neighboring Guinea, where the disease outbreak began, health workers continue to struggle for its eradication, working to save … Continue reading
Rediscovering America: Oregon
The last four years have been given us amazing travel opportunities. The world is full of interesting things to see; wonderful people to meet and get to know; and of course this all translates to great video and photo opportunities. Not … Continue reading
Posted in Home Leave in USA
Tagged coyote creek, Eugene, Fern Ridge, hiking, kayak, McKenzie, mountain bike trail, nature, Oregon, proxy falls, rafting, Takoda's, waldo lake, white water
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Birdwatching from the Hotel Pool
One of the highlights from our recent trip to Jaipur was the beautiful hotel pool. On our last day there, fed up with the heat, waiting for an evening flight, we arranged for a late checkout and decided to spend … Continue reading
Posted in Life in India, Photography, general, Wildlife and Nature
Tagged bee-eater, birds, bulbul, diving, high-speed photography, passerine, Photography, red-vented
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Jaipur, India: Street Photography Goldmine
I have done a few posts already about our trip to Jaipur, India. It was only a 4-day trip, but as I have been looking through our photos, it’s surprising the number and quality of interesting shots we were able … Continue reading
Posted in Life in India
Tagged Hawa Mahal, India, Jaipur, Jal Mahal, Rajasthan, rickshaw, street photography
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