Sidi Mansour vs Ma Baker

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Life in Kingston, Jamaica was sometimes like living in a war zone: occasional bursts of excitement — driving after dark through a ghetto zone, boarding up the windows as a hurricane approached — interspersed with long periods of boredom, for the city does not offer much in the way of amusement for a young family […]

On the road again, again

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Diptheria, tetanus & polio booster? — check!
Hepatitus A & B? — check!
Meningitis ACWY? — check!
Rabies I, II & III? — check!
Typhus fever? — check!
Mantoux test? — check!
TB — check!
Yellow fever? — check!
Malaria tablets? — check!
We feel like a family of pincushions after all the vaccinations we’ve had these last few weeks.
No, we’re not staying in […]

Photos in motion

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Here are a couple of examples of a very neat little program called Sqirlz, which makes water-related animations out of photos. In the first example, of Villa Sonsbeek in Arnhem, I tried to capture the slow swell of a breeze-blown lake. I’d give it 5/10.

In the second example, more appropriate for this time of […]

He’s coming!

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007