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Lunch Box Flash – Surf Fins

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skeg03

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Using a bit of glass below to hold the BING / Fibre Glas Fin Co. Surf Fin and 2 lunch boxes with rice paper diffusers attached. The pattern below is the floor of the studio. The Donald Takayama below seems to be on a journey. 2 lunchbox and 1tube on the wall. And more…  Jacobs Signature [...]

Lunch Box Flash – Hotel Reception

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Montalivet - hotel le Marin

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As with all home-made kit, the first time that it is to be used for a commercial job, the nerves start to tingle! The commission was the  Hotel Le Marin’s rebuilt breakfast area, they only needed 1 image for their website, so it looked like a great opportunity to try out the latest LUNCH BOX. [...]

Jerusalem – street & ally – great opportunities

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street-ally

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Walking through the old city has to  many opportunities for the street photographer. Sit down on the corner of St Marks Street and wait, the passage of the tourist trade mixed with the daily life of the Holy City…. Drop into the nearest baker and pick up the trail…. Just Hang out… the light changing [...]

The Dead Sea and it’s sinking, stinking potholes

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DEAD SEA

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The level of the DEAD SEA has dropped over 30m since Cap. Claude Reignier Conder passed through the region but the light has not changed. A sunset giving the pastel reflections of the water edge mixed with the desert colours and contrasts diverging a light found at 300m below sea level. Watch out when you are [...]

Building your Lunch Box Flash DIFFUSER

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Lunch Box flash

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Your house is filled with all the kit and you will need: Lunch box and 2 covers Aluminium paper – reflective Rice paper – diffuser Sharp knife BUILDING STAGES Cut out a hole in the back of the lunch box (same size as your speed light flash head) Cover the inside of the box with [...]

Al-Aqsa Mosque

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Al-Aqsa mosque

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Al-Aqsa Mosque The third holiest site in Sunni Islam, located in the Old City. The Al-Aqsa Mosque occupies the south side of the Temple Mount and is oriented north to south. Destroyed twice by earthquakes and has been rebuilt at least five times.. Used as the royal palace of the Crusader kings, then as the [...]

Surf Tel Aviv-Jaffa

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Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel

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A view as the storm rolled in from the Mediterranean Sea. The beautiful Crusader fortress dominating the southern end of the beach to the north of Tel Aviv-Jaffa. The rain had just stopped, air temp was 6′C and the water was hitting 15′C. The beach break protected by the concrete wall protection was holding the [...]

Gates of Jerusalem

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Jaffa-gate

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Jaffa Gate: An entrance into the old city,  one of eight gates.  This is the only gate of the old city which is placed at 90′ to the walls. The gate has been sponsored by the South Africans and is being beautifully cleaned up. Damascus Gate: Found on the city’s northwest side.  Built in 1542 [...]

Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem

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Looking from Jerusalem to the Mount of Olives

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Early rise with strong South African coffee -  “milk and honey from the promised land” . The Entrance into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.  Ancient crosses carved into the stone. Check out the light from above on the French Priest in Chapel of St. Helen this place is holy. The size of the dome and [...]

Travel to Israel

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Old Crusader Castle over loooking sea

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Stepping out of the RER at Roissy Charles de Gaulle train station after passing a relaxed evening in Paris, I already had that little feeling that this journey would be one that I would remember for a few reasons. Almost straight away upon putting myself (and sac) 3 hours, before the departure time in the [...]