One of the most unfortunate aspects of being an overseas expat is the simple but inevitable fact that you must continually part ways with close friends. When you work in an expat situation and experience extreme highs and even more intense lows, these people become your surrogate family. Unlike other environments, rarely would you find a job where you’d find yourself stranded together because of massive flooding, and evacuated together in the back of a military truck. You’d scarcely findRead more
Posts tagged: #Indonesia
Low Light and Existing Light Photography: Lenses, ISO, Aperture, and SLRs
Morgan asked: “Just wondering how you are able to capture motion with so little light and not have the picture come out a blurry mess?” Low light photography is an area where most dSLRs triumph easily over point and shoot cameras. I won’t go into much detail but the sensor size of a dSLR is larger than a P&S, allowing a much cleaner image when in low light. This holds especially true as manufacturers cram more and more pixels intoRead more
Why do you blog?
A very nice communications student from Sweden wrote me, asking permission to ‘interview’ me with questions relating to blogging for her Masters thesis. I thought I’d share some of my answers. Please excuse the pretentious sounding answers. What factors determine whether something is worth blogging about for you? It completely depends upon my mood and the events surrounding me. Living in Indonesia, nothing is static for long. The culture, people, and environment are in a constant state of change. BloggingRead more
Kabar Magazine – my cover and article
Kabar Magazine (published throughout S.E. Asia) released their latest issue a couple of weeks ago. Sorry, it slipped my mind to post this. The cover is one of my photos from last year, and the article is something I wrote to accompany the soccer photos taken a couple months ago. For those of you living in Indonesia, it’s available at most bookstores.Read more
Is this site too slow to load?
Indcoup was kind enough to let me know that thejavajive.com is very slow to load via his connection. I realize many of you are on absurdly quick connections in other countries, but here in Indonesia we’re ecstatic with 128kbps for $60/month (since there are no other options in our area other than dial-up). I have a feeling the youtube videos I posted from the floods are slowing this site down for many of you. I can also limit the numberRead more
Posting more personal information
I’ve been toying with the idea of sharing more personal information with those of you who’d care to listen. However, due to the miracle of Google, I think I’ll password protect some of the posts. Does anyone know if Google can pick up the writing if it utilizes a password? At times this blog gets lonely cause I have way too many stories to share that simply aren’t appropriate for this site and some of those visiting for photography orRead more