So I need to just drool a bit at the preview for a documentary I just saw. Before I start, I should preface this post by asserting that I am not, in the least bit, pregnant.
The film by Thomas Barnes, “Babies”, is described on his site as: “Capturing on film the earliest stages of the journey of humanity that are at once unique and universal to us all.”
It follows the 1st year of 4 children living in very different societies and from the 2.5 minute preview the photography alone made me coo… Then there are the cute babies.
from around the world, from Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo.
See the preview for yourself! Some of the films photography is just exquisite.
Archive for March, 2010
Mar
13
2010
Movie I would have loved to make
Mar
08
2010
What I could use right now
As I sit at my desk ready to plunge into some wedding album designs. My mind has been wandering towards a coffee break. As in the kind I had in Costa Rica after a tour of the Finca Rosa Blanca Coffee Plantation and Inn. It was a really fascinating look into the world of organic, shade grown, micro coffee production. Most of the coffee had already been picked but there was a few beans left on the plants as we walked through. Organic farming is really quite an undertaking.
Below is a short clip about the Coffee Plantation that aired on the Live Well HD Network.
Mar
04
2010
Braulio Carrillo National Park, Costa Rica
A few rainy-ish hours is not nearly enough time to capture an area, but here is my attempt. We had an amazing guide named, Jose, who delivered the entire tour in Spanish and some bird calls thrown in for good measure. He was actually able to call over some birds that he heard off in the distance, who who flew over to check out our little group. The bird below is a Violaceous-Trogon. Yes, I had to look that up when I returned. My Spanish is a bit lacking.
After a bit of a walk up through the forest, we took a aerial tram through the trees to gain a different vantage point. From up above we were able to see a rather small and unassuming looking snake that we were told was an eyelash pit viper. They are typically yellow and very poisonous, but this one was a juvenile, brownish-gray and impossible to get a photo of while we were on a moving tram shooting into the dark under-canopy below. So you will just have to take my word for it that we barely escaped with our lives…
Let me make a bit of a note about traveling with photo gear. Packing for a trip that offeres photo oportunites, but not much time to spend actually setting up shots, is ridiculously hard for me. Sort of like packing for a trip with my real children, starting in the snow and moving to a warm climate. And making sure all of the items I bring with me will fit in a carry-on. Parents of young children out there will understand this dilemma.
So this is the type of trip when having a really fast lens makes all the difference. Also one with a bit of a zoom. I brought 2 with me on our trip. My Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L, and I opted to take my smaller, but longer, Canon EF Zoom lens 70 mm-300 mm, F/4.0-5.6, which I find disappointing because of the flatness of the images it produces and lack of control I have over light with such a slow lens. But it beats carrying around my far nicer, but much heavier Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8. I think in retrospect I should have sucked it up, but, what can you do? My poor friend, T, already had to stand there in the middle of the rain while I switched from my short to long lens so that I could go from capturing an orchid to the sloth that was hanging around up above.
