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Dispatch From Sierra Leone: Sunset
Awful news from next door in Liberia in articles like this and this. Here in Freetown, we’ve gotten some relief from the rain, and (knocks on wood) the number of new ebola cases per day has slowed considerably. Â Let’s hope the break in bad weather continues. Yes, this last one is an HDR trick. Â More
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Breaking Rocks in Sierra Leone
This morning I woke up to a rare non-rainy August morning in Freetown. Â Saturday! Â So I grabbed my quadcopter and my camera and headed out to one of the highest-rated local beaches, River No. 2Â Beach, where the local community has collaborated to create a nice spot frequented by locals and foreigners alike. Â After an hour-long,
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Found Film Friday: Good Times for the “Smith” Family
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve gotten to know a family (dubbed “Smith” by me) via a pile of undeveloped film from the 1960s which ended up with me. The Smith family was primarily into photographing the kids, but also occasionally the grandparents turn up, during all of the major family events. Hence we
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Dispatch from Sierra Leone: Walking in Freetown
There are two seasons in Sierra Leone: Â the dry season…and the rainy season. Â Although there is some rain in the “dry” season, the vast majority of the 3Â meters of rain that fall on Freetown during a typical year occur between May and October, with an average of an inch a day in August. Â Some people
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Dispatch from Sierra Leone: Rain and Monkeys
It has been  an extremely challenging first week in Sierra Leone.  An ebola outbreak – the world’s worst to date – has stretched the country’s already limited medical capacity to the limit.  Although the epidemic has been going on since May, for some reason the media chose the last week or so to spin this