Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Planning Your Vacation
The hot summer has arrived and most of you might be planning to go on vacation and escape from the hot sun. Especially the choices of places during this hot summer will be the colder regions. There are a number of sites which will help you to book tickets and hotel online. So now a days planning for vacation have mostly become online. But the toughest part is that we must have access to the internet if we are planning for vacation online. First we used the wired networks with the limitation that we cannot access while on the move. But with the advent of 4G networks it has become possible. These 4G Wireless Internet gives provision for us to book tickets online easily and the speed is also good. CLEAR in Houston, TX is one of the provider of the wireless 4G network. Experience the high speed internet in home and also on the move. The coverage is also good. Different types of Internet & Phone Bundles are available. Book your space on the CLEAR 4G. Plan your vacation without interruption using this high speed 4G network
Diego Vergés: The Mentawai
As I indicated in an earlier post on The Travel Photographer blog, Diego Vergés is back from his 4 months trip to Indonesia (and PNG) and its various islands, and is currently working feverishly on his inventory of images.
He tells me that he has so far edited and readied only one of his expected 8 or more photo essays on the various indigenous groups of Indonesia, and that's the gallery on the Mentawai. The images are spectacular, and I encourage you to view them as they provide a window into a culture which I suspect will soon vanish.
You'll notice Diego's characteristic lighting techniques from the above photographs, and which he told he learned from The Strobist. Photographing the Mentawai, he used off camera lighting, a reflector and a softbox. For cameras, Diego uses a Canon 5d and a 5d Mark II, with prime lenses (24mm f1.4 and 50mm f1.4).
The Mentawai are the native people of the Mentawai Islands, which is a chain of about seventy islands and islets off the western coast of Sumatra. They live a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the coastal and rain forest environments of the islands, and number about 64,000. They are known by their deep spirituality, body art and the tradition of sharpening their teeth for beautifying reasons.
The Mentawai practice traditional animism, and as with other indigenous cultures, are threatened by encroaching modernism.
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