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Chennai’s Republic Day Parade
Today was a pretty special day in India – even President Obama agreed, as he spent the better part of the day with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, having been invited as Chief Guest for the annual Republic Day Parade. President … Continue reading
Posted in Life in India, Uncategorized
Tagged Chennai, India, pageantry, parade, Republic Day
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Found Film: Trips to the Zoo and to Montreal
This is another post in the series on the photos taken by Raymond Albert in and around Rumford, Maine in the late 1940s and early 1950s (see “Introducing the Alberts”). In this post, I share two rolls of film, in … Continue reading
Posted in Found Film
Tagged black and white, Cathedral, Maine, Mary, Mont Royal, Montreal, Oratoire Saint Joseph, Queen of the World, rumford, vintage, zoo
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Processing Your Own Film
I recently had a query from someone on whether I would teach him how to process his own film. Unfortunately I’ve only been at it for about 9 months, far too short to be in any position to teach on … Continue reading
Posted in film processing
Tagged black and white, C-41, color, film photography, film processing, photo equipment, process
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Found Film: Korea, 1946 – Part 3
This is the third installment (in what will eventually be 4) in a series of posts about a fascinating project I have been working on. Rather than the usual “found film” which I find undeveloped, this is a set of … Continue reading
Found: Michelle’s Fisheye Film
It’s “Found Film” Friday, and this week’s “found” roll comes to us from the same place as last week’s roll – but appears to be from a different photographer. Among that set of different 35mm rolls, none of which appeared … Continue reading
It’s always hardest cutting your own video…
Why, other than a few hardcore fans, is a film’s director the only one who likes the “Director’s Cut” better than the movie that was released to the public? It’s hard to delete the footage you worked so hard to … Continue reading
The Best Chowkidar in the Universe
Way back in 2007, on one of my earliest tours in Afghanistan, I was responsible for writing these weekly situation reports, and I recall there was an open source report being published in the UK that I would regularly rely … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Good Causes
Tagged Afghanistan, chowkidar, fix Ibrahim, FixIbrahim
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Photowalk in Georgetown (Chennai, India): Poses
This is the second in a multi-part series about a recent photowalk in Georgetown, one of the most dense parts of Chennai, and virtually the only area to retain its colonial identifier. In a couple of days I hope to … Continue reading
Posted in Life in India, Photowalks
Tagged candid, Chennai, Georgetown, India, photowalk, posed photos, street photography
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From the Township to the Championship: The Amazing Story Behind One Photo
This is Sofia Simon, a fifteen-year-old, in Giza, Egypt. She’s on a layover in Cairo, on her way to compete in the World Biathle Championships in Cyprus. Never heard of biathle? Eighteen months ago, neither had Sofia. Eighteen months ago, … Continue reading
Posted in Random Thoughts, Observations and Weird Stuff
Tagged Biathle, championships, Cyprus, Katutura, Namibia, pentathlon, Sofia, swimming, township
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Found Film
One of the things I enjoy doing is developing pictures that someone took long ago, and at some point, lost track of and forgot to develop. Years later, it was found, wound its way into my hands, and was developed. … Continue reading
Reflecting on Afghanistan, 2006
Today, September 11, was a day of service to the local community. A group of Americans and Indians did some cleanup, painting, and entertaining of children at a local school for the mentally handicapped. The idea was to get out … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Random Thoughts, Observations and Weird Stuff
Tagged 2006, 9/11, Afghanistan
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Afghanistan: The Power of Photography
Free and open media are at the heart of maintaining a free and democratic state. This is especially applicable to photojournalism, due to the power of photographs to convey emotion and meaning often eluding other media forms. This was a … Continue reading
Final Stop in the Great Western States Odyssey: Crater Lake
In our continuing Western States Odyssey in a rented 31-foot RV, our final stop was a return to the place we had originally intended to be our first stop: Crater Lake. Unfortunately, we had gotten a late start and ultimately … Continue reading
Found Film: Check out my Hat
Here’s a fun thing to do. Well, I think it’s fun. Most people I talk to just give me an odd look when I tell them about “found film”. Occasionally on eBay you’ll see a listing for “exposed film” from … Continue reading
Posted in Found Film, Vintage cameras
Tagged agfa b2 cadet, ansco, black and white, found film
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Namibia’s Dwindling Historical Archives
At 23 years and 8 days old, Namibia is starting to face the very real possibility that its historical archives – the artifacts and memories documenting the country’s long fight to achieve nationhood and defeat apartheid – may be lost … Continue reading
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Tagged archives, historical, history, independence memorial museum, Namibia
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Joining the Lomography Bandwagon: Agfa Billy
A few years ago, I picked up a vintage camera in really good shape at a flea market in Europe. I think it cost like 30 bucks and I picked it from a tale with at least a dozen other … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage cameras
Tagged 120 film, Agfa, Agfa Billy, analog, lomo, vintage camera
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Recording Live Concert Footage
When I was a kid, often you couldn’t take a camera into a music concert – probably they wanted to make sure they had the market cornered on posters and publicity photos back then. Now, in the days of ubiquitous … Continue reading
Posted in Tips and Tricks, Video Editing
Tagged concert, filming, live, Music for Video
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Things to do on a Plane
So I spent a couple of days flying around in a plane for no reason (don’t ask). The not-to-be named airline which ferries Dutch troops back and forth to Kandahar go out of their way to spend pretty much … Continue reading
Posted in Random Thoughts, Observations and Weird Stuff
Tagged airplane, clouds, Music for Video, PSP
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Weather Stop-Motion “how-to”, vol 2
You’ve all seen it on Survivor: someone takes an interesting weather feature, such as moving clouds or a sunset, and either uses stop-motion techniques or radically speeds up the footage to create an interesting effect. It’s a fun technique that can make for a useful clip to use as an intro, outro, scene-setter or transition. The big-time moviemakers probably use something fancier than what I’m about to describe here, but virtually anyone can do this with consumer video-editing software. As I found out, however, it’s a little tricker than I thought. Continue reading
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Tagged clouds, how-to, stop-motion, sunrise, time lapse, time shift, weather
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Two More Contest Entries
I’ve re-tooled an old video from Washington DC – in fact, this is the video that inspired me to start this site (with some friendly encouragement) – and entered it into Lonely Planet’s video contest. Also, my video joins at least two others in a quest for a $1500 prize in Reel Insights’ monthly contest – this one is “A Family Struggles with Going Green.” Continue reading
eCompliments Contest Winner
Well, the smoke cleared and…the TAZM Pictures entry on the eCompliments video contest ended up in 12th place. Things were going well; just as it looked like we would drop off the bottom (the lowest-ranked video was dropping off the … Continue reading
A Video Contest to Support the Troops!
After some recent small successes, we’re taking a shot at the eCompliments video contest offers a grand prize of $10,000 for the highest-rated video (as voted by the public) that compliments any person, place, thing, business, organization…you get the picture. … Continue reading