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Check Out my Entries for the B&H Wilderness Photo Contest!
B&H Photo (I really should own stock in that company, as much money as I send them) is hosting a Wilderness Photo Competition – and the grand prize(s) are safari trips to Namibia and Botswana. Â Yes, I’m sending mainly wildlife photos from Namibia – the irony is not lost on me. Â It wouldn’t do me
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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 on as a source, because the author was able to get more detailed information on
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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. Â This is the first “real” video I’ve done in some time – a short documentary film as opposed to some hastily thrown together clips. Â It’s based on our trip to the Malaysian
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Found Film Friday: An Airman in Syracuse
It’s “Found Film Friday” again! When I share a roll of film that has been found and rescued from oblivion. No one has seen these photos before – not the people who took them, not the people on them. And now you get to see them… Before I go into this week’s roll, I wonder
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A Story Behind Every Picture
They say every picture is worth 1,000 words. Â In the best case, a good picture tells a story. Â Sometimes the picture itself is the story. Â This is one of the cool things about photography. Take the photo below, for instance. Â Not a very good picture – out of focus, not well-framed, and the subject