Today is day 1 of 9 of a project I am working on with The Paradigm Project. Today we walked about 11 miles… starting at Sea World and ending on the beautiful UCSD campus. The idea behind this event is to raise awareness about what over a billion people are doing all over the world just to collect firewood. 12 hour hikes, 3 times a week, just to collect firewood and cook are not uncommon.
On top of that, most families are cooking inside a hut which quickly fills with smoke. We are in the middle of a cooking demonstration inside a custom built hut to share with people what it’s like during cooking… These demonstrations are happening RIGHT NOW!
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UPDATE: Thanks for all your responses! After hearing from everyone from fellow fotogs to meteorologists… we’ve concluded this is a prime example of a Circumhorizontal Arc. Wikipedia explains it’s an ice-halo formed by plate shaped ice crystals in high level cirrus clouds. Apparently, a circumhorizontal arc can sometimes be an indicator of an earthquake in the very near future… one was seen just minutes before the Sichuan earthquake in Central China in 2008: Earthquake Lights.
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A couple of days ago, Esther Havens and I were working in Gondar in Northern Ethiopia… we got out of the car and looked up to see
this incredible cloud structure overhead…
Time stood still as we sat there with eyes fixed upward, watching this irridescent orb slowly transform from one beauty to the next and
I remain in awe at this display of the mystique of His Splendor.
The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.
Psalm Nineteen
A few images from an afternoon hiking around Gertrude Saddle…one of my favorite days in all my time in that beautiful country. On my way up there, I shot a handful of different B&Ws… the sheer magnitude of these rocks & mountains is just impossible to capture. It may look like it’s a 10 minute walk away but it ends up being 1-2 hours, unreal.
After I finally got to the top, it was completely foggy. I had been told the top was a great vantage point to see the Milford Sound, so I decided to wait a bit, have a snack, and see if it cleared up. Fortunately about 45 minutes later, they did.
July’s desktop comes from a six hour day hike I took near the southern tip of the south island in New Zealand. It was a super rewarding day photographically and emotionally. So great to just get out and hike completely alone for hours. I ended up hiking around the hill you see on the left, and up around the top ridge where there were alpine lakes and waterfalls. More images from this day following shortly…
Enjoy!
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Have had the privilege of working with The Paradigm Project a good bit during this last year… I love what the folks are doing at this org, they have a super unique model and from what I can tell it’s making a really neat impact. We have been shooting a whole series of little motion pieces that they are using as part of marketing campaign. Many more episodes to come, but for now, here’s the trailer:
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