nature

  • South African Safari – Addo Elephant Park

    I previously posted about Ironman South Africa last April.  Well, naturally you don’t go all the way to South Africa for a sporting event and then go back home.  Nope – safari time! There are a number of parks and reserves in and around Port Elizabeth, South Africa. To be honest, you don’t even have

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  • Rediscovering America: Shenandoah

    In a long(er) blog post in October, I wrote about the benefits of a career that takes you all over the world, and highlighted the fact that being away often helps us better appreciate the natural beauty of our own country – which, ironically, we don’t get to experience all that much. After spending some

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  • 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 only have we been able to experience the vast deserts, wilderness and wildlife of Namibia, but

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  • Guindy National Park

    Smack in the middle of Chennai is a 2.8 square-kilometer national park – one of India’s smallest – which is an extension of the Tamil Nadu Governor’s residence. Along its fringes can be found the Snake Park, which I’ve posted about previously, and the Childrens’ Park, which on most days is filled with uniformed schoolchildren

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  • Short Film: Kinabatangan

    I’ve been talking a lot about photography and vintage cameras on this blog, but originally this was all about video editing and production.  This is the first “real” video I’ve done in some time – a short documentary film as opposed to some hastily thrown together clips.  It’s based on our trip to the Malaysian

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  • Victoria Falls at Dusk

    Awhile back we visited Victoria Falls, on the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia.  They’re not the biggest falls in the world, but at a mile wide and 110 meters deep, they are up there.  I thought the footage went wonderfully with Philip Glass’s “Anthem” from Powaqqatsi.  Thankfully, YouTube allowed it, albeit with ads.

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  • Photo: Bug Eats Millipede

    I snapped this interesting photo the other day as I was experimenting with some screw-in macro lenses I had gotten in the mail.  Here in Namibia, there are millions of millipedes coiled up under rocks, soil, everyplace you dig.  So in the course of gardening there are bound to be a few casualties.  So this

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  • TAZM Pictures is moving to Africa!

    The countdown is on. Three weeks until I’m cruising down the runway, bound for Namibia for a couple of years. What I’m hoping to experience: Okaukuejo [in Etosha National Park] has become world-famous.  it is conveniently situated on the edge of the rest camp, separated only by a stone wall and overlooked by a paved

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