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Just Like Riding a Bike
Sometimes it’s easy to take things for granted. Â Like learning how to ride a bike. Â Among other things, we teach sports at the Resource Center, an after-school program for kids under age 14, at the Jakob Marengo School in Katutura, the poor and predominantly black township in the northern edge of Windhoek, Namibia. Usually we
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US Army in Afghanistan Parodies “Call Me Maybe”
Here’s the latest effort by troops deployed overseas to blow off a little steam and connect with friends and family back home. Some may feel it’s inappropriate – but you have to come up with things like this to stay sane sometimes. This is their description: A cover of “Call Me Maybe” performed by US
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Photographing Victoria Falls
So you go to one of the most spectacular views in the world and you figure the photography is going to be child’s play – just hold the camera up in the right general direction and shoot. Not so in Victoria Falls. This is not for the lack of spots and sights. It’s just impossible
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Namibia: Strange Birds
Namibia has a number of different types of hornbills – some fairly common, but some a bit rarer. Â This fellow below – a southern ground hornbill, was spotted casually walking through the forest toward the road we were on, with about 5-6 of his colleagues / family. Â About the size of a small wild turkey,
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Sony’s NEX-EA50 NXCam – interchangeable lens camcorder
This just-released promotional video highlights Sony’s latest interchangeable-lens video camcorder. Once you get beyond the nonstandard English, it’s SHWEEET! It’s due out in October, and unlike the typical still camera that “also takes good video” this is a professional grade camcorder that “also takes good stills”. It’s got a 16 MP APS-C CMOS sensor along