Don’t Look Now

After watching the election last night I went back and looked at some coverage of Obama rallies I did over the last year. This has been a lonnnnnnng campaign. Anyways here are some sets from the archive:

California 2007 Rally
Missouri 2007 Rally

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A male model shows off his underwear to the eager press, part of a new design collection on display during Panama Fashion Week.

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Some fun pics from Panama Fashion Week. I tried some stuff like this shooting from the opposite end of the runway, pointing towards the photographers and into the studio lights. Some cool rim and halo lights….

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Some shots I liked from covering boxing the other night.

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Update Aug. 3, 2008:I discovered, which many of you may have known, that the Flash 9 plugin, which has a 95% penetration worldwide, can actually playback any video file encoded in H.264. That means it can playback any H.264 encoded .MOV, M4V, MP4, or FLV through the Flash video player!

In a nutshell, you dont need to waste time outputting your video file to flv anymore. You can upload any of these formats, point your flash video player plugin to it, and it will play it back. High quality, quick turn around. Problem solved!

If you liked the SoundSlides version, it can be found here
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p.s. apologies to the band. I love your music. Please don’t sue me….

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A young girl plays on the beach in Veracruz, a small fishing village ten minutes outside Panama City.

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Brazil is the biggest producer of soy in the world.

The farmers cut into the forest for soy and cattle.

Cleared jungle for cattle pasture. Demand for red meat continues to skyrocket.

Charred forest ready to convert to farmland.

These are some stills from my photo camera from a story I am working on about the global food and energy crisis, which actually a video piece. I took very few stills, but here they are. With HD, I can do frame grabs, which is the plan in the next few days.

In an nutshell, many are accusing Brazil of burning down the Amazon to convert it into high yield farmland to grow more food, animal feed, and crops for biodiesel and ethanol production. Begs the question about what is the environmental price we are willing to pay in order to have enough food and energy crops for the world. A complex and controversial issue.

The video is in the editing phase right now, and will post soon. Enjoy..

Note: I cropped to 16:9 aspect so I can put it in FCP. Some people like to add motion to the photos and move around it, but not me. I like it cropped how I want…

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Brazilian journalist and friend Ana Bianca Marin was in town for a few days. We took a day trip up the coast. Ana dreams of buying a French sailboat and seeing the world. I saw her looking out to sea, dreaming….

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Fuerte San Lorenzo, the ruins of a 16th Century Spanish fort on the Caribbean coast of Panama.

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—A few photos for a spec piece I may do about deforestation in Panama.

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I went on a hike with my photog buddy Ruben Parra for a little photo trek. Nice change to just play with light and shadow and whatnot….

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Music video shoot.

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