Stories of faith, hope and encouragement

VJ Bootcamp – TOP TEN LIST

Just back from the 2010 Visual Journalist Bootcamp in Langley, WA.  Here’s the skinny. TOP TEN LIST OF VJ GEMS TO REMEMBER (MediaStorm): 70% of video production is audio Ask paired questions, then shut up. (use the Dumb Dog look for clarification) Let the motion happen (lock on tripod, reduce pans/tilts/zooms) Let each piece “breath” […]

Emperor of all things electronic

  There’s a lot of discussion these days over the fate of editorial writers and photographers.  Much of the buzz surrounds the fact that gobs of information already exist online – paid professionals must now compete with free, mass-produced content. But follow me on this bit of crowd-sourced optimism, if you will. Over at an […]

By their fruit you shall know them

We’ve been hanging out with twenty kids at the Ban San Faan Home outside of Chiang Mai, Thailand who despite the absence of birth parents will capture your heart and challenge your faith with the reality of their Heavenly Father. Photo: Abbey and Daniel enjoy the fruit of their labor after picking lychee. During my […]

Songkran: Thai New Year

WATER FIGHT!!! What began centuries ago as a traditional celebration of the Thai astrological new year has devolved into a friendly national water fight geared to stave off the hottest days of the Thai year. A hundred years ago, younger Thais would travel to their parent’s place to give gifts to the beloved elders and […]

Don't feed the animals

Now halfway into a short-term tour of SE Asia; it’s time for a family break to debrief and unwind from the constant cultural adjustments that we’ve been making since arriving here almost 2 months ago. We decide to work with a tour guide for a couple of days as we settle into Tagbilarin, Bohol and […]

Can you dig it?

Had the chance to join writer Mike Gingrich on assignment for Jeepney magazine… a fledgling street mag geared to help the urban poor get a leg up on life. The Pinoy term Mangangalakal can mean entrepreneur, but in the relocated squatter community of Tansa 1, it refers to individuals with a salvage lisence for the […]

Manila by Night

Click to view a panoramic night-view of metro-Manila from Antipolo, Philippines.

Death to dust bunnies

Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s a dust bunny! In fact a flyin’ burrow of them. You’re looking at 1500 identical pixels from the CMOS chip of a Canon 5D dSLR – cropped from two separate images of a blank piece of paper. On the left is the crud-studded photo sensor prior to […]

Photo opportunity or opportunism?

Phone rang the other day… photo desk of national newspaper asks if I can accompany a writer to Big White ski resort, 90 minutes south of here. “Cool,” says I. “What’s the story?” “That Aussie, Leigh Barnier, that was killed in the avalanche…?,” says the PE, probing my reaction. “A reporter is doing a story […]