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2010Score
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Roasted in the Namib
A Road Trip Through Southern Africa
By Vincent Mounier
Roasted in the Namib
A Road Trip Through Southern Africa
By Vincent Mounier
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Nervous Brooklyn snapshots
This will probably be the last - or next to last - post before wheels up. With suspense and stress levels hovering around critical, we've been taking walks around Brooklyn to relax our nerves. Both Marie and I hide very well behind a camera. Notice we took the same shots. Funny how a single interview can carry the weight of an entire life path. With so much at stake, perspective is skewed and elusive. So my finger pressing the shutter has more to do with a spasm than a concerted effort. These are but snapshots of what one sees when glancing around while surfing down the giant wave of fate. At this stage, greater care is given to avoid wiping out than to framing the shots. The crest is near, white foam all around, will this be a back or a record breaker?
Coriolistic Anachronisms, already a little dazed by winter's numbing caress, is going to slow down even further while Marie and I escape across the Atlantic Ocean to Africa. For the two months to come, I will only be posting brief and sporadic teasers from the road. I will, however, be taking photos like crazy and should have a lot to write about once we get back. My goal this year is to concentrate on large scale panoramas and HDR. The new Manfrotto tripod and its ballhead will follow me everywhere. Going to extremes, I have rigged a makeshift panoramic head in the form of a $10 Nikon bracket that I attach at an angle between the sideways ballhead and the camera and which approximate the advantages of the $400 real thing, correcting parallax by making the camera rotate roughly around the lens' entrance pupil. The 3 panos posted in a previous entry were taken using that rig but I have since then improved the design. Furthermore, they were shot in sub-freezing temperatures with numb fingers and little time to calculate and prepare. South Africa, in comparison, will be bliss... Until next time, then.
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“Vert comme l’espérance” murmura Pierrot la marmite ;)
How funny, no matter how well I remember it all, I had to Google that one. I couldn’t remember his character. And the funniest part, I found the reference on an English site:
http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/langelot2.html
Unreal! The English site on Langelot!!!
Quant à avoir oublié Masque vert et Pierrot… tsk tsk tsk… of course the fact that I’ve had them and reread them all those years might give me a slight advantage… Still! For shame! Your classics!