Water Bottle Baseball
Baseball, the passion of the D.R. You can find a game everywhere, including in the streets of Piedra Blanca where kids use a water bottle if they have no baseball.
Photos from recent shoot in Dominican Republic for Floresta.
Baseball, the passion of the D.R. You can find a game everywhere, including in the streets of Piedra Blanca where kids use a water bottle if they have no baseball.
If things were different, this could be your neighbor. A man in Piedra Blanca works on an addition to his castle. Its an awful fine piece of timber in contrast to his current existing building.
A lumber microenterprise project involves selective harvesting of timber, and processing into lumber.
Carlos, director of Domnican Republic Floresta mans the reflector disc for this interivew with farmers.
Maria makes brooms from recycled plastic strapping, one of many Floresta microenterprise projects.
First shoot location in the D.R., at a community tree nursery. I'm shooting a portrait style shot with fish eye lens.
From Proverbs, the Message translation: Like a gold ring in the snout of a pig, is a beautiful face on an empty head.
The pig farmer needs a micro loan to buy the appropriate feed that will grow the pigs bigger.
Breaktime means a cold coke. Somehow it tastes better in the tropics. Is it the heat? The glass bottle? Use of real cane sugar in the recipe instead of corn syrup?
Shooting an interview on the hillside suffering from soil erosion. Armando Osorio conducts interview and Floresta Agricultural Technician Durbil mans the reflector disc.
25 children raced around, planting several hundred seedlings in less than 30 minutes.
This dynamo of a woman served me the best coffee I've ever had (apologies to Batdorf and Cafe Aroma). Hand-picked and hand-made, all organic, served in a shot style cup.
A back room in the now-empty old Floresta office was the location of last resort for a series of staff interviews. I had no lighting kit - too heavy to carry and I prefer to do the interviews outside anyway. But we were stuck in the city, and it way too loud (and rainy) outside. The bare concrete walls and floors created a bad echo sound, so we draped sheets and blankets on the floors and walls to absorb sound. I opened the two windows behind and beside the camera for a soft key and fill lighting. At the other end of the room, I closed all the windows to darken the light green walls, and positioned the subjects in front of a open window in the back, creating a soft backlight. Since it was a long room, the rear window was pulled out of focus creating an interesting abstract background texture. See part 2 for a sample frame of end result.
Apiarist and honey-producer shows a few hundred of his 80,000 bees. Somehow nobody got stung. Except Scotty.
Later he fed us chunks of comb loaded with fresh honey.
Yet another Floresta sponsored microenterprise in the D.R.
Sometimes I would flip my LCD viewfinder around so the children could see themselves while they were being filmed, and it always seemed to delight them.
