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I was walking in Wimbledon last night, and managed to get myself into a nice shower, which was cool ‘cos I had my brolly… Love walking in the rain when I’m not getting really wet.
Even cooler tho’, was the double rainbow that came out afterwards, which was totally awesome. I’ve seen a fair few rainbows in my time in Africa, but never a double one…
Here’s a photo for you:
_ Checkout the set if you wanna see more…
All shot with my trusty Nokia 6300 under the umbrella!
I’m sitting in the airport at Chicago and am just about to get on a plane back to London. Feeling more tired and whacked out than in a long time; probably the last SxSw…
Anyways, if you’re reading this and you like Kindo, give it a another look today - we’ve just added photo’s.
So, give it a whirl y’all and lemme know if you have any feedback - always appreciated!! 
More soon.
_ 2008 - Snowboarding trip to France’s 3 Valleys - a photoset on Flickr
As an African I’ve never seen so much snow or such expansive vistas before in my life, hope you enjoy
Long overdue post, check it out from Lebogang…
_ 75
75, is a daily collaborative photographic project.
It is an idea derived from Sinah Ntholi Nkoane, a photography - journal I have been running for five years or so.
During that time I realised, that I would actually like to see more day by day photography from other people, so I decided to build this here to allow for that.
So, I’ll invite a couple of people to do just that, and in turn, I get to see beautiful photography, well, we get to. In the end, they too, these initial, `graphers (also known as rock-stars), will invite whom-ever they want, and the circle grows bigger as time moves.
But, it’s only one photograph a day on every other day. Why one?
Well, my thinking is that, this induces a sense and appreciation of photography.
Word.
– lebogang nkoane
Great photography
_ Adam Shelton | Photographer
I’m an entrepreneur, technologist and environmentalist. I’m also passionate about Africa, Africans, photography, open source stuff, and the web. I play hockey for fun. I believe we’re at a critical juncture in human evolution. I try constantly to be more productive. This is my blog where I talk about all these things, some more than others.
Just thought I’d get that out that way - hate it when people put other people in boxes. Never really fitted into boxes.
So as a follow up to this post about being a Naked CEO, I’ve exercised my right to change my mind after more deliberation, and have decided that henceforth, this blog will be about my experiences and thoughts (dirty laundry will be aired here - iron fist). The Technovated blog will be about Technovated (velvet glove), the business I started and am now lucky enough to be a part of, and what we’re doing there. There’s going to be a lot to talk about there over the coming months…
So, next post is about a frustration I’m having…
Managed to get all my latest photo’s onto Flickr after getting them back from Jessops.
Here are all the new sets:
Hockey world cup in Germany
Summer holiday in Greece and Turkey:
Boat cruise
Lomography -> http://lomography.com/
Kas, Turkey
Fethiye, Turkey
Santorini to Rhodes
Santorini, Greece
Mykonos, Greece
Athens, Greece
Weekend in Bath and at Stonehenge
I’m totally lusting after the Nikon D80S (getting tired of staff at Jessops screwing up the scanning of phot’s onto cd’s, and the cost of it), but at £799 in the shops atm, it may be a bit more of a save than I expected! (the D70S is now £599)…
Added some photos to Flickr this morning, all from 2001 - some good wildlife shots, a solar eclipse taken from Johannesburg, some from the Otter Trail, a few from Graskop (nice old skool look), and from Pilgrims Rest (old mining town in SA).
Daniel’s photo’s are interesting.. I really liked the Chernobyl set, because it’s the last place one would think to take photo’s of…
Could do with a thumbnail gallery though
Check it out - love the saturation and simplicty of these photo’s..
http://gosu.co.za/.
Hat tip to Lebogang.
I’ve been watching Lebogang’s photography get better and better, and am finding myself going back often to see what he’s been up to…
Check it out:
http://sinah.org/
Last year I bought a Pentax MZ-6 and a Nikon F70 off eBay at roughly the same time. I had an old Pentax ME II Super and a Sigma 70-210 zoom lens that I used together, so I got the MZ-6 to use with the zoom lens. My intention was to try out the Pentax and the Nikon against each other to see which one I preferred.
I have to say, that after this weeken in Bath, I really do like the Nikon - it’s bigger (I have pretty large mitts so I need something that doesn’t feel like a plastic dinky toy), faster, more intuitive and now that I’ve read the manual, pretty easy to use. Added to which, in the future I can get the Nikon D70 knowing that whatever lenses I use with the F70 I can also use with the D70, which is great.
That said, I’m still going to take the Pentax for another test run to see how I feel about it - I don’t really want to get rid of it and the lens I bought with my hard earned cash.
Now, the only question is whether it’s worth getting a 35mm film and transparency scanner so that I don’t have to pay an arm and a leg each time to get film processed, developed and put onto a cd.
I’m the first to admit that I’m a workaholic. 12/16/18 hour days are no stranger to me, and to be honest it’s bad - the harder I work the more I think I’m doing, but this isn’t necessarily true. You only have to picture the lone worker in the stone quarry banging away with a rubber mallet to understand this. Somewhere in my past that was wired into my brain, but slowly I’m re-wiring it.
Being effective is far more important than working long hours.
And a part of being effective is taking the rest needed to re-charge worn batteries, motivation and relationships.
I spent this Easter weekend in Bath with my brother and my mum, and I had an absolutely wonderful time. So much so that I’m kicking myself for not doing it more often. I went away tired, stressed and a little burnt out, and I’ve come back rested, renewed and with more energy. I’ve not felt this relaxed about things in general for a while, and it’s all good. The highlights were seeing the Roman baths, hearty English breakfasts at the B’nB, watching two semi-naked acrobats in leapard skin thongs perform on the street, and getting to grips with the Nikon F70 (film SLR camera) I bought on eBay last year (and in the process taking some photo’s I’m really happy with).
In a lot of ways I’d forgotten how important these simple pleasures are, and now I’m determined to do that more often.
Anyways, I guess the take home is that unless I look after myself, I’m not going to make the long game, and it’s the long game that counts, doesn’t it?
What do you think?
Right, so I have about 600 photo’s from SxSW that I want to put up somewhere so that everyone can see them, but I’m not 100% sure that Flickr is the right place for them.
Sure, it has all the social stuff we’re all abuzz about, but does it justify the cost and will it work for me (assuming I pay the fee for the pro version which I don’t really mind doing) when I need to consider that I have about 600 MB (since 2000) of other photo’s that I want to put up in other groups?
My normal response would be yes, it’s better than any other open source apps out there right now (most are just plain bloated or overkill - I want clean, simple and easy to use), but Zen Photo is a very, very, very compelling option, and IMHO probably better than Flickr for me (at least near as I can see it).
Most of the photo’s I take are nature, architecture, landscapes, interesting things, shapes and things that I want to remember, so why put them on Flickr?
Anyone got any ideas / input / experiences they can share? I’m going to Bath this weekend, and when I get back I want to put them all up somewhere!
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