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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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