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Photographer Tony Paiva talks to Sam Cornwall about how he got into shooting at night, the tools he uses to create his images, and his run-in with a Black Widow.
This article has been contributed from the Fall 2010 issue of Resource Magazine, courtesy of the publisher. To subscribe to the magazine and explore Resource's online features, visit the Resource Magazine website.
Photograph by Troy Paiva. (View the PDF to see the full image.)
Where are you from?
I was born in New York and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when I was five. Aside from a few short, failed experiments, I've lived here ever since.
Did you go to school for photography?
No I didn't. My training is in graphic design and illustration. Night photography started out as a hobby, a way of creating personal art, without having art direction and outside influence. Over the last twenty years, it's really become an obsession.
When and why did you start shooting abandoned night shots?
I've explored abandonments and been a high desert ghost-towner since I was a teenager in the 1970s. In 1989 my brother was getting a photo degree at a SF-based art college. One of his classes was in night photography, taught by Steve Harper. He told me, "You're gonna love this." So I tagged along to a few lectures and field trips to the industrial sections of SF to shoot. A few people were waving flashlights around to fill shadow areas during the time exposures and I immediately saw the potential of using these techniques to shoot the abandon ments I had been visiting my whole life. I bought some cheap 35mm gear, hit the desert during the next full moon, and never looked back.
Please describe what this shot was for.
All my light-painted, full moonlit, night photography, is personal work. It's intentionally noncommercial—a pure art project. I gladly license my photography for commercial use, but that's not my intention when I shoot this stuff.
How did this shot come about?
Did you have the location/angle/timing planned prior to the shoot? No, not really. My trips for shooting are very loose and freewheeling. While I may have a region, stretch of bypassed road, or town in mind, I never know exactly what I'm going to shoot. Because it's not client-based work, I can be totally flexible and open to shooting whatever the locations give me.
Where was this shot taken?
This was a roadside food stand in Yermo, California, a small highway-town East of Barstow. It was bypassed by Interstate 15 and has been a half ghost town since the 1960s. It's about a seven-hour drive from my home.
Was this a new spot for you or had you shot there before?
I've been through Yermo many times over the years and shot the abandoned gas stations on the opposite side of town, but this was the first time I shot this building.
What type of lights did you use?
This was lit with a hand-held, yellow-gelled, Vivitar 285. The rest of the light is ambient sodium vapor streetlights and full moonlight.
What camera did you use?
I shoot with a Canon 20D and a 12-24 Tokina lens.
What specific equipment do you use to be able to shoot in full-moon conditions?
For digital, you need a DSLR with a CMOS sensor. For film you need a fully manual camera that doesn't use a battery to drive the shutter. You need a tripod and remote release too. That's really all you need to get started. If you want to add light during the time exposure, you can use a flash that can be fired manually, or simple flashlights. It really can be done with a minimum of gear and on a shoestring budget.
How long did you spend preparing this shoot?
Well, aside from the seven-hour drive, virtually none. It was one of those "Hey, that's a cool building, I'll shoot that" as I drove by kind of moments.
How long did the shooting take?
The exposure itself was two minutes long, but I did a couple of takes. Maybe fifteen minutes total at the site.
Did you run across any special obstacles?
When I walked through one of the interior doorways, I felt a tugging on my pants at my ankles and up across my shoulder. I knew immediately it was a big spider web. Shivering with revulsion, I quickly did my yellow flashpop and staggered outside. Shining a flashlight on my leg I found a Black Widow as big as my thumb making its way up my pant leg. A quick flick and stomp and it was over, but my skin still crawls whenever I think about it.
Was there any retouching involved? If so, to what the extent?
This particular image is a combination of two exposures. When I bolted out of the building with the spider on me, I closed the shutter too soon. The interior was lit properly, but the exterior was too underexposed (even for me). So I did another frame that I left open for the full two minutes, but I refused to go back in there and re-light! I stacked them in Photoshop and used the "lighten" layer effect to let the yellow light appear. Most of my images are SOOC with minimal post-production, but occasionally, I've got to resort to techniques like this to get the image.
Why are you going back to film, if only occasionally?
Film night work has a cross-processed look, as the grain pops, contrast increases due to reciprocity failure, and the color temps of the ambient lights wreak havoc. My old film night work has a Holga-esque, skronky quality that many people find endearing. Still, I moved to digital in 2005 and never looked back. I occasionally shoot film during my workshops to illustrate that making sixty-minute exposures with massively long star trails can't be done with a DSLR (because the sensor overheats)—but even that can be simulated with consecutive, stacked images in Photoshop.
Do you have a favorite film you always rely on? Are there any new films you are experimenting with?
Back in the film era, I used almost exclusively Kodak 160T, a now discontinued, tungsten balanced chrome film. In the early days of Hollywood, tungsten film, with its strong blue cast, was used to create a "day for night" look—shoot during the day, underexpose by 2-3 stops and you'd have images that look like they're bathed in cool, blue moonlight. If I shoot film today it usually ends up being Kodak 100VS. The color saturation with that film really complements my colored light painting.
How has your technique evolved?
Digital changed everything. The ability to chimp the shot on the back of your DSLR before you ever pick up the tripod revolutionized night photography. In the film era, I would set up, do the shot and hope I got it right. With digital, I just keep reviewing the image on the back of the camera and reshoot it until I get exactly what I want. This allows me to attempt much more complex and sophisticated lighting set ups.
Where has the pursuit of the next shot taken you? All over the West?
Yeah, I've done this work in every state West of the Rockies.
Is there any one spot on your dream list that you haven't made it to or found yet?
No, not very much. I love the lonely, wide-open spaces and lack of man-made ambient light that exists in the desert. Last year I traveled to England to give a lecture on my technique and managed to get three nights of shooting in the UK—at a WWII POW camp, a train junkyard, and a plane bone yard, all under typically British, socked in and rainy skies. The entire country seems to be bathed in sodium vapor light. I was happy with the work, but shooting in these conditions is a very different aesthetic. There's interesting abandoned locations everywhere, but I'll take shooting in the warm, quiet deserts of California, Nevada and Arizona any day.
How do you research and track down new locations?
So much of it is just heading out to the desert and driving around on the forgotten local roads. I get ideas from old road maps too. I have a fifty-year-old Shell Oil map of Nevada and it's covered with little towns that don't even appear on modern maps. I also use the Internet—Google Earth has become invaluable for assessing locations. I get a lot of word of mouth recommendations too.
Do you have particular locales or ghost towns that continue to draw you back?
I always come back to the aircraft bone yards. The sight of a 747 with its nose and wings clipped off, sitting on its belly, weeping hydraulic fluid in the sand is an incredibly evocative sight. These locations are virtually impossible to access without paying astronomical fees anymore, but I have a connection that keeps coming through for me.
How many times has Johnny Law thought you were a terrorist?
Not a terrorist specifically, but I've been questioned by every kind of cop imaginable, countless times. Dealing with authorities and property owners is a complex dance that you have to master to do this kind of photography. My standard three-point tip: Always carry samples of your work to show them, because they will be skeptical that you're "taking pictures . . . at night?" Plus showing them interesting pictures calms them and changes the conversation from "You're trespassing and I'm going to bust you" to "Wow, that's cool, how did you do that?" Don't run. If you make them chase you, you're only admitting guilt and they'll hate you for making them sweat. If they catch you, nothing you can do from that point on will make them treat you well.Understand the ramifications of trespassing in the location you're shooting. Sneaking into an abandoned gas station or warehouse has less potential for problems with authorities than sneaking into functioning infrastructure. If you get caught shooting on the tarmac of a functioning airport, don't expect to be released with a simple warning.
Any good stories about your run-ins with cops, property owners or security guards?
One time I was shooting an old pet cemetery outside of Ajo, Arizona, about seventy-five miles from the Mexican border. A very quiet, isolated spot. After shooting for about an hour, I noticed a Cessna slowly circling overhead. A few minutes later, two cars, blue and red lights blazing on their roofs, approached on the highway from both the North and South at about 100mph. They careened into the parking lot in a dramatic cloud of dust. At the same time, a Jeep came bouncing out of the gully to the West. I was simultaneously hit by spotlights coming from three different directions. Moments later, several more cars showed up. Before I knew what was happening, I was surrounded by over fifteen very serious and heavily armed Border Patrol agents. Even though the site was public with no hours posted, they threw me out "for my own safety" because "the surrounding hills are filled with desperate fugitives that wouldn't think twice about sticking a knife in your neck and stealing your car." That was the biggest, most ridiculous bust I've ever experienced.
Do you ever pursue the history of these locations? What they were? Who owned them or worked or lived there?
Sure, all the time. I've done two books (Lost America: The Abandoned Roadside West, 2003, MBI Publishing, and Night Vision: The Art of Urban Exploration, 2008, Chronicle Books) and the publishers required a lot of historical data about the locations. The historical aspect enhances the images, but my intention is to create imagery that can stand alone, without written explanation.
When and why did you start sharing your knowledge through teaching?
I've always been very open about what I'm doing. The Technique page on my website is as long as your arm and lays out my process in great detail. I teach workshops in an abandoned high desert car junkyard a couple times a year, too. This kind of photography is an adventure. Every trip is filled with peak experiences. It's extremely gratifying when you come away with a great image, because night shooting and light painting are so difficult to master. I enjoy sharing that because I want more people to go out and have these bizarre and exciting experiences.
Is there any advice you'd give to a young photographer working on night projects?
Light painting is about practice, so set up in your house or garage and light paint mundane objects like your water heater or washer, so that you understand what works and what doesn't. That way you're more prepared when you actually get out in the field to shoot real subjects. Just get out there and shoot. The hardest part of doing this is dragging yourself out of your warm home on a cold night.
After twenty years of night photography, two books, numerous workshops and a countless amount of images, how do you keep it fresh and your interest piqued?
I still simply love the act of doing it. You know the awe that most normal people feel when they visit Yosemite Valley or the Grand Canyon? I get that same feeling standing, alone, under a full moon, in the middle of a ghost town, an abandoned military complex or a junkyard filled with airliners and locomotives. These sites have always been powerfully evocative and thrilling for me, and I really get off on capturing that feeling with my camera. And because these sites come and go and are constantly evolving, it's always a new experience. I don't expect I'll ever really tire of it or run out of new locations to explore.


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Coach of the Super Eagles Gernot Rohr has granted permission to four players to skip the Super Eagles training camp in France, Owngoalnigeria.com can exclusively reveal.
The players include three players who are going to be involved in the English FA Cup final in Wembley with Chelsea taking on Arsenal on the 27th of May, a day after the Super Eagles clash against Island of Corsica.
Ola Aina, Victor Moses and Alex Iwobi have all been excused from the camp in France, with Rohr ordering the trio to join the rest of their teammate in Uyo for the Super Eagles AFCON 2019 Qualifiers against South Africa.
Aside the trio, Daniel Akpeyi have also been excused from the team camp in France due to club commitments with his South African side Chippa United on the 25th of May.
" We have to consider their clubs as well. So the four players won't be joining us in France, but they have been directed to report to the camp in Nigeria before the game against South Africa on the 10th of June", a member of the technical crew told Owngoalnigeria.com.
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I know these two are princes and should command some respect and all but I tried watching the aforementioned Matt Burns interview these characters and I couldn't understand one goddamn word they said.
I think I caught something about a concert. Next time we interview these clowns can I get subtitles. Nevermind actually, I'll just change the channel, easier for the producers and less pain for me.
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Work in progress
I have come to a sort-of conclusion that maybe knitting is not for me. I love it, I really do - but nothing I have made this year has turned out right at all. It's very disheartening.
Crochet, on the other hand, is much better. It grows quickly and in the blanket pattern I'm using I only have to count up to four, and even I can manage that.
So why, in my little pile of works-in-progress, do I have two knitting and two crochet?
The knitting is down to sizing issues. Neither of those pieces are finished and I already know one is going to be too big and the other too small. I am too close to the end to give up completely, but my motivation for finishing them is distinctly lacking at the moment.
The crochet is all down to colour. There is some incredible inspiration on the internet, and when it comes to choosing my own colour combinations I get overwhelmed and then keep second-guessing myself. These are the remains of two blankets that I started, decided I didn't like, and have left in the pile because I couldn't bear to frog them all.
The good news is that I have started a third blanket. I finally decided that I had to STOP looking at other people's work, pick my colours from my stash and stop buying more yarn, make a plan and get on with it. And remember that the 'look' of the blanket changes with each row...I've just done two rows in purple, but the overall look will not be very purple at all. I've done about 16 colours so far (two rows of each) and without wanting to tempt fate, it's coming along nicely. Fingers crossed this one might actually progress to being a finished item.
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Board members in a Condo Association come in many varieties, but at the end of the day, they're either bad at their job, good at their job, or great at their job. Today we'll cover the major archetypes of Board members, what their behaviors are, and how they fit into the Association. If you're a Board member and wondering how you fit in, this article will be great for a little self-reflection. If you're an Owner or Management who knows your Board well, you'll be able to categorize your Board very quickly after this.
The Bad Board Member
The Bad Board Member is what you'd expect. They don't create any output in terms of the Association; instead, they detract from operations. They may not have all of these characteristics, but they will exhibit a majority of them:
- A Bad Board Member does not actually understand the Condo's Bylaws or rules.
- A Bad Board Member does not read important Condo documents – like financials, bids, or management reports – in a timely fashion.
- A Bad Board Member will continually indicate they are unhappy about decisions, documents, or whatever, but will not indicate a path to satisfaction and instead continually move the goalposts.
- A Bad Board Member does not take into account Owner feedback.
- A Bad Board Member is disrespectful or rude to others, be it Management, other Board members or Owners.
- A Bad Board Member may be unethical and seek to use Board status to gain personal advantage.
Bad Board Members must be identified and dealt with accordingly. You need to aggressively manage them (link) to ensure that they don't turn your whole Board toxic. A Bad Board Member, left unchecked, can have significant derogatory impact to your Association. Two or more will lead to breaking bad (link).
The Good Board Member
The Good Board Member is your bedrock. They get things done, they move the ball forward, and they generally keep drama low. They exhibit some or all of the following characteristics:
- A Good Board Member understands the Bylaws and rules of an Association – they know what can and can't be done.
- A Good Board Member is up-to-date on relevant documents and has formulated opinions on them – for example, if there's a project out for bid, they will have read the documents and formed an opinion.
- A Good Board Member provides constructive feedback on issues; generally they form an opinion and will articulate issues.
- A Good Board Member will listen to Owners and engage in a positive manner.
- A Good Board Member will happily work on projects when directed by others, and occasionally will proactively volunteer.
- A Good Board Member is polite and respectful to others.
Good Board Members are what most people end up being. They won't lead, but they will follow and they will get things done. The biggest difference between a Good and Great Board Member is that the Good Board Member isn't as likely to stir the pot – for example, they may be less inclined to stand up to a Bad Board Member.
The Great Board Member
Great Board Members are the rock stars. They lead the charge and get things done. They take on the dirty jobs, they talk to Owners, they work with Management, and they build a positive working environment. Some of the characteristics of these hard-charging individuals are:
- A Great Board Member takes ownership of issues, but does so without dominating them and excluding feedback from others.
- A Great Board Member comes up with new ideas to improve the Association, and then leads the charge. He or she does not make work for others.
- A Great Board Member not only listens to Owner feedback, but solicits it without being overbearing.
- A Great Board Member actively engages other Board members for their input and mentors Bad Board Members to try to salvage them.
- A Great Board Member actively encourages a culture of respect in the Association, making sure that Bad Board Members are called out.
Somewhat counter-intuitively, you actually don't want too many Great Board Members on your Board, as there isn't always enough room for these super type-A individuals. One or two is enough, and with a good bench of Good Board Members supporting them, your Association is in great shape. Great Board Members can often burn out after a term or two because of the energy they put in.
The Unhealthy Board Member
The Unhealthy Board Member is a condition that can affect any type of Board member. This is when someone starts using Board work as an unhealthy proxy for other issues in their life. It might be that they're intense people who always give everything 120%, or maybe they're lonely and the Board is their only social outlet. Some signs of an Unhealthy Board Member include:
- An Unhealthy Board Member commits all documents to memory; while helpful in meetings, this is a little concerning and borderline obsessive-compulsive.
- An Unhealthy Board Member is constantly pinging Board members for their feedback, even if everyone just received the documents hours ago.
- An Unhealthy Board Member wants to meet in person for extra meetings constantly and does not want to do work over phone or email.
- An Unhealthy Board Member often hangs around Management and building staff in a codependent-like fashion, micro-managing operations.
The best way to handle an Unhealthy Board Member is to set polite, but firm boundaries. If you're comfortable doing so, you can also try to help regulate their intensity and help them find life beyond the Association, but that may entail a host of challenges and drama.
Making Sense of it All
Just like people, Boards come in all shapes, sizes, and types. Take stock of your Board and figure out how you can be better for your Association. Whether it's dialing back unhealthy behaviors, coaching up a Bad Board Member, or making the leap from Good to Great, there's always opportunity to improve.


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Duration: 2-3 days.
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Purpose: to provide the basic skills and knowledge on the tactics of small groups in armed conflict, the threat of bandits, technogenic catastrophes, natural disasters.
Tactical training seminar is conducted in the form of a campaign for a few days with full staying autonomously from civilization.
– The basic elements of the movement, acrobatics, falls, self-insurance.
Civil training:
– Basic bivouac tourist skills, wanderings of different areas.
– Fundamentals of the topography and orientation.
– Fundamentals of Regional Studies.
– Special pre-medical assistance in the conditions of the campaign, in particular in wounds.
– Medicinal plants\ Herbs\.
– Elements of the survival of the group during the campaign in case of a limited equipment, food, water.
– Equipment.
– Footprint-studying.
– Fundamentals of the shooting.
– Dealing with weapons.
– The technique of grip and aiming and firing.
– Shooting in statics and dynamics, shooting at night.
– Arrangement of the firing positions.
– Weapon-studying.
– Principles of the movement of group in the ranks. Management of individual members of the group.
– The main tactics of movement.
– Division on the march. Surveillance. Standing.
– Tactics of actions in different natural and anthropogenic conditions.
– Ways of overcoming barriers (debris, water, etc.)
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Senior class misfits Tom and Dan want to participate in their school's Battle of the Bands. Dan plays a mean bass, and Tom is a whiz on both guitar and keyboard—but two people, unfortunately, don't a band make. They still need a drummer and at least one more guitarist if they want a chance at beating the competition. That's when Tom reaches out to Mark, a former friend and now star athlete, for his mad guitar skills. Later, they're joined by exchange student Jacoby, who proves to be formidable on the drums. And so is born a new band, the "Stereotypical Freaks." As the night of the competition draws close, the four boys revel in their awesome new sound—until one of them comes forward with a heartbreaking secret. Will misunderstanding and tragedy unmoor their new-found sense of comradery? Or will it bring them closer together?
Oh, where to begin? The thing I liked most about this graphic novel were the lists of suggested songs at the beginning of each chapter. Since I was reading this as a galley on my computer, I was able to go to YouTube and listen to the songs as I read, which was really a nice touch. Supporters of the We Need Diverse Books movement will also be pleased by the inclusion of minority characters as key players in the story. Mark is black and has two mothers, while Jacoby is Inuit. However, that's where my praise ends. Although it's a nice, well-meaning story with an important message, it also tends to suffer from preachiness and lack of subtlety. When the boys are discussing possibilities for their new band name, Tom muses:
"The name should be unique to us...who we are, what we are. And when people look at us I think they see four, I guess for lack of a better word, stereotypes… We have a brainiac, a goof with zero social skills […], an African-American football star and a tiny and very shy foreign exchange student… To them, that is who we are. The truth is, we're not the stereotypes they define us as. In a way we are freaks...because we're not who we're perceived as."This is where, as a writer, I'm going to on my creativity high horse and point out that in a good story, readers should be able to pick up on themes by themselves. If a story requires direct intervention by the writer, then the story isn't as strong as it could be. And unfortunately, I think that's the case here. Recommended for older teens, ages 16-Up.


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Great guest post by Andrew Keogh, who we interviewed here. See more about Andrew's company Aristo.ie here.
Speaking in public is the number one fear, rated above death in numerous surveys over the years.
We have all met the so-called experts who are happy to give advice to people who speak in public or who are about to speak in public, in spite of the fact that they would never do so themselves.
The advice proffered by these so-called experts is usually negative e.g. slowdown, speed up, speak up, don't mumble, stop moving or start moving.
They call this constructive criticism which is criticism with the word constructive in front of it; in my experience coaches and trainers are as guilty of this type of advice as anybody else.
My Advice
My first piece of advice to anybody about to speak at an important event, be it a business meeting or a family occasion, is to prepare well in advance with the support of someone who has previously spoken at important events and can provide you with good common sense guidance.
This is my job as a consultant who advises senior Executives on how to prepare their message and deliver it with confidence, whether the audience is 1, 5, 50 or 500.
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Who is your audience?
The first and most important preparation is to decide who is your audience? Whether the audience is five or 500, choose the one person in the audience you would wish to listen to you and to understand the message you wish to deliver. e.g.
Business audience: Is it the person who signs the cheque?
Father of the bride speech: Are you speaking to the groom or your daughter?
Who am I talking to in this blog?
A person who is very good at their job but whose career is being restricted because of their lack of confidence to speak up on important occasions? Is this you?
Purpose of TALK
What is the purpose of the talk? I want you to think of your talk as a conversation, not a speech, presentation, lecture or sermon (churches are empty because no one wants to be sermonised to).
When preparing your talk ask yourself which one of the following would you want your talk to do?
Inform the mind?
Touch the emotions?
Change the will?
Also all talks should entertain, I do not necessarily mean funny ha! ha! I am sure you would agree that most business talks you hear are boring. Speakers should remember the old joke, if you haven't struck oil after 10 minutes, stop boring!
The Basics
Sports people are always talking about getting the basics right and are continually practising the basics in training. Successful speakers also need to train.
Here are the basics for presenting which need to be prepared and practised if you wish to be recognised as an engaging and entertaining speaker.
Get your audience's attention in the first twenty words or seven seconds.
Body of Talk:
Demonstrate that you have EARNED the right to speak on this subject.
Show that you are EXCITED and EAGER to speak on this subject.
Close the Talk:
Deliver one final message clarifying how the audience will be better as a result of taking your advice.
Then CLOSE with a very specific call to action.
"A good speaker (like a good maître d') does not deliver a menu, he advises on what is best for you on the menu."
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At 11 pm, around 20 rappels later, we were at the Brecha de los Italianos. We had a five-course supper (1 cracker = 1 course) and tested the concept of one sleeping bag and one matress for two, sitting instead of lying down because of the lack of space. We experienced the feeling of being so tired that we only thought of sleeping but being prevented from it by the cold and the discomfort of the position.
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Fitz Roy: Do. Or Not Do. There Is No Try.
Post-Rock Trip Piedra Parada
Sometimes the environmental conditions make that one has to fight hard to be able to climb, sometimes the conditions are just ideal, so that one can focus entirely on the difficulty of the climb and forget about frozen fingers, wet and overgrown cracks, bad protection, the weather forecast and nasty "tabano" flies confounding one's nose with a runway.
Coming back from Cochamó we felt that we needed a cosy place like that and after all with the weather models forecasting rain and storm for Patagonian mountains till end of December, the Patagonian "meseta" seemed a nice and almost dry place to be.
The "meseta" is part of the most extensive desertic region of Argentina and was subject to intensive geological movements of elevation and lowering giving place to a stair-like landscape. The high geologic activity in this region has also given place to a fantastical rock formation, the Piedra Parada, a more than 200 meter high freestanding monolith, whose story began 65Mio years ago. If one wants to go for the technical term the Piedra Parada is the most important "volcanic-piroclastic complex" in the region of the Chubut river. It is the leftover of a gigantic volcano with a caldera diameter of about 25km, and was active before the Andes were created. The many colors of the stones that can be found in its vicinity are witnesses of the agitaded past. During the last eruption the volcano collapsed and the lava in the chiminea cooled down and formed what is known as the Piedra Parada when the softer stone around the chiminea eroded.
The Buitrera canyon lies near the Piedra Parada and is a product of erosion. Its colors and the strange rock formations must have fascinated early populations since the oldest proof of human dwellings in the region (between 5'000 and 10'000 years ago) can be found at the entrance of the canyon.
More recently a new form of live could be found in the canyon: climbers. A definite climax of the population was to be found during the Petzl Rock trip in November 2012, when more than 1600 climbers were queueing for 200+ routes in the steep and richely featured rock walls of the canyon. When we arrived three weeks later, there was hardly a trace of the overpopulation, except for the brand new car of Don Mario, the owner of the camping ground.
We immediately made acquaintance of the "local" climber tribe, climbers from France (Tchen and Thibaut), Chile (Antoine), Argentina (Maria and Walter), all of them spending several weeks/months in the Buitrera.
After all the trad climbing and long approches we had done lately, Louis and I had a hard time getting used to the hard sport climbing, but we learnt quickly that we could rely on the bolts and climb until you fall. Inspired by the insistence of the others we also started to work harder routes, meaning that we tried a route several times up to the moment we were able to climb it without falling.
Apart from small showers we stayed dry, the wind was more than bearable, the temperatures were agreeable, we had a swim in the river Chubut every day, sat down by the fire at night sharing our exploits of the day. We finally again felt mentally prepared for a harsher environment and during our stay the weather situation had improved in Patagonia, nothing could contain us now from heading to El Chalten!
More pictures can be found here.
Camel Trophy Cochamo
Three years ago, very little time after Marius had left Europe for Valdivia, he had sent me a mail with pictures of high granit cliffs rising above lush forests. In his mail Marius was praising the climbing in Cochamó valley, a place with a name sounding like an North-American indian tribe and only a few hours away from his new hometown by car, and hoping that we could explore it together one day.
"So much untouched rock, it's so inspiring!" that was what a British guy met in Huaraz and intending to open new routes in Cochamó had once told us. During our trip, Cochamó was often a subject to discussion with other climbers : with Egon in Tuzgle; he had brought 80 spits with bolts from Switzerland to set a new route there, with Adrien and Gaël in Arenales; they were determined to avoid rainy Cochamó as much as windy Chalten.
Thus when we crossed the Chilean border and the rain drops started hitting the bus window, we were well informed about Cochamó: about its spectacular, multi-pitch routes, crack climbing routes that won it the comparison with Yosemite but also about its world record precipitation rate (it rains 20 days per month in average). We were aware that we would have to be patient in order to climb and to enjoy climbing in Cochamó. In Valdivia it was raining heavily every day. But even when Marius told us that the weather in Cochamo was always worse than in Valdivia and that no good weather window was in sight we did not discourage and enjoyed the life in Valdivia. At the university the semester was coming to an end and Marius was giving the last exams to his students. Since he was keen to accompany us to Cochamó we were not in a hurry. Five days after our arrival in Valdivia, a three days good weather window was forecasted. We bought plastic boots, printed topos and loaded up Marius Kangoo: we were ready.
We entered a new world as we hiked up the 20 km long valley to "Refugio Cochamó" through rain forest. The trail spanned over countless mud puddles, followed deep mossy trenches, crossed rivers over fords, slippery tree trunks or tyroleans. Even though the sun was shining we were walking in half-light, the canopy hung like a thick curtain above our heads.
We took a break at "Refugio Cochamó", a charming wooden house on a small hill overlooking the "La Junta" camping grounds, and in the afternoon we hiked up another three hours to the "Selknam" camp at the foot of the Anfiteatro. The steep trail had been cut with machetes through dense bamboo woods, zigzagging between cliffs, waterfalls and centenary "alerces" (similar to redwood trees). The camp was set up around a massive boulder overhanging on one side and it had been newly fitted out with chairs, tables, fireplace and toilets by the "Club Andino" of Puerto Montt. On the next day and second day of good weather, we scrambled an hour and a half up an adventurous river bed and a steep gully to the start of the route. At 10am we were climbing the first pitch, at 8pm we were standing on the summit of the "Espejo", at 1am we finished rappelling a neighbouring route and at 3am we were cooking risotto at the "Selknam" camp. We had a long day in the route "Cinco Estrellas" (also rated five stars in the topo…) for many reasons: many mossy and wet cracks when not completely clogged with earth and shrubs, difficult route finding (very few belays in place, minimalist topo), unprotectable slabs, sustained difficulties not reflected by the grading, unknown rappelling line at night (one stuck rope, two missed belays) …
On the third day and last day of good weather we slept late, walked down to the "Refugio Cochamó", swam in the emerald green river, met the occupants of "La Junta" and watched dark grey clouds drawing close and gathering above the valley. The next morning it was raining. We were running out of food and white gas and Marius had to return to Valdivia. We left part of our equipment at "La Junta" expecting a two days good weather window later that week (the staff of the "Refugio" has a satellite internet connection and provides a daily weather forecast to climbers).
We walked down in pouring rain and high wind, the gusts dumping additional water from the trees foliage. We opted for different strategies with respect to clothing: Marius put on tights plus bathing suit as bottom and gore-tex jacket plus shirt as top whereas Stephan and I only wore underwear as bottom, not to forget the two vital bamboo sticks. As a result Stephan and I were emptying our plastic boots every half an hour. For the three of us the water retained by the backpack belt passed through the gore-tex barrier and slowly soaked in upwards. Worse, the repeated friction of the boots upper edges with our calves left bleeding wounds that have been imperishable reminders of that day up to now.
We spent two days in the touristic but cosy and lovely Puerto Varas on the Llanquihue lake side forgetting about weather issues in cafés and cake shops. The weather forecast indeed changed in the meantime, shortening the good weather window to one single day. The day before it, we took a bus to Cochamó village, hired a jeep to drive us to the end of the road 12 km away and hiked up to "La Junta" in stormy weather, speeding up in despair. It kept raining the whole night and on the good weather day the rock faces were all wet, draining the last days precipitations. We joined four beardy, long-haired American guys from Oregon (their precipitation rates compete with the ones of Cochamó) to "Pared Seca", the only sport and always dry climbing sector (the route bottoms are wet though). In the evening rain returned and on the next morning we escaped that liquid hell, wet from top to bottom, shivering from cold, putting one muddy foot in front of the other and thinking with envy of our next destination: Piedra Parada in the desert.
We climbed: Cerro Espejo/Anfiteatro (1700m), "Cinco estrellas", 450m, 6b+
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Taking a Load Off at Marius' Place
Since August Louis and I have been on the road or let us say on the rock, we tried not to spend more than 2-3 days in cities or to travel and to climb the rest of the time. This resulted in a tight schedule, since everytime that we were in a city, we needed to find out how to get to the next climbing spot, to buy the provisions for a week, to wash our clothes, to sort the photos and actually to travel. Once at the climbing spot life was more relaxed and we were only bothering about climbing, eating and painful fingers and toes.
However, at some point, we felt that we needed a break. Moreover we had been longing to visit our friend Marius in Valdivia who was part of our team in the Cordillera Blanca (Peru).
For the time of a week we again had a real home (thanks Paola and Marius!), did some sedentary activities like going to the movies, having our hair cut or going to the local boulder gym that Marius recently founded with some friends. At "La Gruta" we also had the opportunity to make a presentation of our trip and to show some of our pictures to the local climbers community.
In order to maintain a certain connection with nature, we also spent a day rock climbing in Llifen that offers a bunch of sport climbing routes in basaltic stone that is located in the backyard of Valdivia (given the distances in South America it was still a 2 hours drive). On top of all these relaxing activities we visited some rudementary hot springs near Llifen.
After this relaxing stopover in Valdivia we had the very much required strength to undertake our next quest, the Yosemite of South America, the mythic Cochamo Valley.
Some more pictures can be found here.
Bittersweet Frey
Frey sounds like Swiss chocolate and the truth is not so far away. It is a group of granit spires planted on a dome shaped and snow covered mountain up above Bariloche but from the city the famous climbing spot may very well look like a goblet of ice cream topped with Chantilly cream and sprinkled with chocolate chips.
We had returned from Valle Encantado on Saturday and we spent Sunday afternoon at Esteban and Silvia's lovely house situated on the heights of Bariloche. Esteban is the son of a cousin of my grandmother whose father emigrated to Argentina in the beginning of the 20th century… They had very kindly invited us for a "domingo asado" (Sunday barbecue), a traditional and popular activity very much part of the Argentinean culture. Their wooden house is nestled in a large and lush garden at that time of the south hemisphere spring: high dark pines framing the Nahuel Huapi lake, blooming fruit trees standing alongside dense bushes and beds of aromatic herbs lined up along house.
That afternoon we were introduced to the technology of self-built, portable solar ovens, we admired Silvia's art of stained glass, we commented on the Higgs boson discovery and the "faster than light neutrinos" (they both worked at CERN), we tasted their home-made yoghurt and bread as well as mint tea and candied peaches from the garden and we were told about the story of an Austrian mad-doctor, friend of the president of Argentina who was working on atomic fusion on a uninhabited island of the Nahuel Hapi lake after World War II.
On Monday morning we left Bariloche for the second time. We took a bus to Catedral, the town main ski resort and hiked up to "Refugio Frey" with food for five days. The Frey hut is very well located at a pass dropping on one side to a small lake (and our daily bathtube) and on the other side to the access valley covered by deep, enchanted forests. The bivy places set up with small stone walls against wind are spreaded over a gentle slope above the hut whereas on the opposite slope stands the "Aguja Frey", the nearest spire with the largest number of routes. The Frey hut is well visited by backpackers undertaking the three days Jakob trek around Bariloche.
At the Frey hut we came across a swedish guy met ten days earlier in a bus and passionate about paleontology. We got to know Alan, the friendly hut warden and climber, willing to buy any climbing gear since imported goods are unaffordable in Argentina. We also met a bunch of climbers coming from the Petzl Rock Trip: two Brasilean boulderers not afraid of long approches, the famous Daniel du Lac and his girlfriend, a group of cheerful Argentinean climbers returning at night from their climbs (we are not yet generalizing…) convinced of having spotted Adam Ondra in Piedra Parada; after investigation it seems that they are the only ones (however it results that pro climbers in general are smaller and skinnier than expected by their fans and Daniel du Lac is the exception that proves the rule since he is taller than me).
Our climbs:
– Aguja Frey (1850m), "Diedro de Jim", 50m, 5b
– Aguja Principal (2410m), "Ruta normal", 150m, 6a
– Aguja El Abuelo (???), route mix: "Conflicto de generaciones" and "Anonimo Yankee", 100m, 6b+
– Aguja M2 (2000m), route mix: "Llegando al cielo sin morir" and "El fin de los dias", 45m, 6b
– Campanilo Esloveno (???), "Fonrouge-Bertoncelj", 120m, 6b
– Aguja Frey (1920m), "Lost fingers", 120m, 6b
More pictures can be found here.
Video – Jammin' the Crack, Atacama Style
Taking photographs in the mountains is an exciting activity. With every step you take in these great spaces, the surrounding transforms itself. The angles, the lights, the shadows, the depth, the action are in constant evolution and the work of the photographer is to put them into a relation that reflects his experience.
The effects one wants to create depend very much on the terrain. In mountaineering, where the slopes are generally lower angled, the photographer wants to capture the scenic ambiance in which the subject is moving.
In contrast in rock climbing, where the walls are vertical or overhanging, the photographer wants to emphasize the climber, the adrenaline, the void.
After all, these two categories often merge, opening up the way for the photographer to bring in his own creativity.
However in most of the professional pictures of rock climbing, the photographer is not part of the team, i.e. he takes the role of an outside narrator.
In our case this is hardly possible, since we're only two to climb (and not soloing our routes). Therefore the two possible views are either from the bottom or the top belay, showing either the climber's feet or head, which is very limiting.
In our latest video we tried to overcome the constricting composition of our photographs by using a technology called timelapse, a programmable trigger. Enjoy the result!
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Tuzgle – No Country For Old Men
On our first night in San Pedro de Atacama, on the valuable advice of a local climber met at the tourist information, we had had the best meal since we were in Chile. At the "Estrella Negra", a small vegetarian restaurant, we had been served a colourful and tasty menu (I do not remember what exactly) accompanied with home-made bread and lemon/ginger juice. As we had left the three half new age half rasta young people running the place, we were made up with Chilean cooking. In the next two weeks we passed by the "Estrella Negra" every time that we were back in San Pedro de Atacama hoping for a good supper and a stock of home-made bread but we always found the door closed. Looking back it seems that in our memory the repeated disappointments got the better of the delightful experience on the first night.
However we overcame it and the day after returning from Socaire we took a bus to Salta (Argentina). We got off at mid-way in Susques, the first town on the Argentinean side of the Jama pass and the starting point to Tuzgle, a crown of red tuff cliffs overlooking a "quebrada" at the foot of the "Cerro Tuzgle" volcano. The climbing potential in Tuzgle was publicized some years ago by a Petzl team in this movie.
In the bus we came across Julia and Egon, a couple of climbers (and route setters) from Ticino who we had shortly met on our first day in Socaire. After talking with us about the access to Tuzgle, they decided to join us without passing by Salta as they had initially planed.
In Susques we were dropped in front of the modest tourist office whose only and squinting employee turned out to be exceptionally helpful, efficient and honest. He organized a car and driver for the next day to transport us to the 75 km away canyon and answered very professionally to the dozen of practical questions that we asked (in South America you almost always get an answer to a question but it is often either incomplete or false since people prefer to invent answers than not to give any). He also proposed to look after our luggage during our time in Tuzgle and to personally check that the driver would pick us up five days later. We spent the evening in Susques trying to make unfriendly grocers smile, drinking warm beer and discussing average speed and road gradient with a lonely french biker linking up Tierra del Fuego to Alaska. The next five days we were cut off from the human world (except for three or four cars or motorbikes per day passing on the road) climbing in the shade, burning up in the sun, freezing at night, looking at blazing stars, cooking sheltered by boulders, taping, jamming, panting for air, stumbling into chinchilla tunnels, listening to the slamming of our tents in the desert wind.
Since the water of the small river flowing down from the volcano was not drinkable, we had taken all our water with us. We drank or cooked our 18.5 l to the last straw whereas Julia and Egon survived with 16 l.
Egon showed a big interest in creating a topo of the discovered routes and with our common effort we ended up with this proposition:
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It is so difficult sometimes to understand yourself, to realize all the difference with other people and understand what is really so much missing. Sometimes problems and an attempt to understand yourself leads to the fact that there is a desire to do something irreparable, in an attempt to get rid of a strange feeling. And something inside suggests that this will help to deal with everything and put an end to everything. But will it really be like that? Such doubts tormented Mirai Kuriyama and led her to the roof of a high-rise building. The girl felt like she is in despair and in that state was even willing to make the same fatal step.however, Akihito Kanbar, who at first glance seemed to be the most ordinary person, did not allow her to jump off. But in reality it was not so. He possessed a special power that was not accepted in this world, and the inhabitants of the other world were not going to accept. It also led to internal conflict, but just so the guy didn't even think to give up. He was sure that no doubt to cope with all that lay on his shoulders and he wanted to help Mirai. He thought that together it would be easier for them to understand what was happening to them and why they were so different from the others. But will they be able to find answers to all their questions or will the number of questions only increase?
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"The N Word" Series Part 3: Why People are Against and Don't Use of the "N" Word
*Disclaimer, in this hub there is a quote that has the "N word", I chose to include it. This is the only time the "N word" is used and written out in this hub.*
How can a 6 letter, sometimes 5 letter word, stir up many reactions and opinions? Some people are forbidden from uttering this word, it is downright offensive to some, while some view it as more neutral or even endearing. In this hub I will go over: Why People are Against and Don't Use of the "N" Word. I will also go over arguments against the use of the "N word".
As in my previous hub, the general rule is peoples of Caucasian/ European descent cannot say the "N word".
Most Common Reason People Don't Support the use of the "N" Word
The "N word" represents pain and is a reminder, a wound of our long sad past.
The unhealed wounds of slavery, the bittersweet pain of the civil rights movement, and the frustration of the passive racism of modern society. Imagine someone being called a "N word" before being lynched to death by an angry mob. Many have died for this word and/or what it represents. It's an insult to your ancestors who have died and suffered for this word. It's an insult to Martin Luther King Jr and other civil rights activists who fought for the rights of blacks and whose were insulted and killed by the hatred behind this word. Respect yourself, the past and your ancestors. Don't use the "N word".
As Langston Hughes in his memoir The Big Sea, 1940 stated:
""[t]he word nigger to colored people is like a red rag to a bull. Used rightly or wrongly, ironically or seriously, of necessity for the sake of realism, or impishly for the sake of comedy, it doesn't matter. Negroes do not like it in any book or play whatsoever, be the book or play ever so sympathetic in its treatment of the basic problems of the race. Even though the book or play is written by a Negro, they still do not like it. The word nigger, you see, sums up for us who are colored all the bitter years of insult and struggle in America."
Langston Hughes describes the "N word" as a human stain of American culture. He views it as a pejorative and insulting reminder of the African-American Struggle. He does not care if it is being used in comedy or in realism, the "N word is offensive.
Arguments against the use of the "N word"
These are common arguments against the Usage of the "N word"
No one should use it
Some people think the "N word" should be banned and killed off the human language. No group has rights for the word, no group owns the word, and so it should not be used. On both sides.
It sets black people back centuries and further stereotypes them
This is in the tune with hip hop/gangster rap/modern mainstream rap culture. A lot of rap songs uses this word in their lyrics. In turn many believe hip hop and rap promote negative behavior and stereotypes of black peoples. People who use it think they are bad and gangsta when they say it, which further internalize negative stereotypes against blacks. This is because the "N word is forever associated with black people/peoples of color.
It gives more power to whites/the oppressive class.
Saying the word gives power to whites/the oppressive class. It represents the negative, white oppressive hegemony (power) and using that word further promotes it. Saying the "N word, puts it in our consciousness and spreads the negativity around.
Arguments against the use of the "N word" (cont'd.)
The word is negative and offensive plain and simple.
Just like the word Bitch is offensive to women, the "N word is offensive. No matter how much you turn it around and claim it is positive, it is inherently not. It's ugly, vile, with a tragic history. It can not be positive. The sooner people will accept that the sooner people will stop saying it.
The Rules of "N word" usage is hypocritical, unfair and confusing.
The rules of the "N word" usage is just too hypocritical, unfair and confusing. There has to either been a common uniformed approach to who gets to say it. Or no rules at all and not one gets to say it. This is an argument because blacks don't operate as a sole entity and some don't even agree among themselves on who gets to say it. Some blacks don't even say the "N word" at all. Not to mention there is a "unfair" double standard (one group can say while others can't). Isn't that confusing? Might as well keep it simple and forbid anyone from saying it at all.
Lack of Respect
Using the "N word shows a lack of respect to black people. Someone should respect you enough not to say it. Just as you won't say the K word to someone who is Jewish, the S word for someone who is of Hispanic descent, the F word for someone who is gay, and the T word for someone who is transgendered. Why would (white people) want to use the word anyway? Some people view it as a sign of disrespect towards people who are eager to defend their right to say it.
Who gets to use the "N word" ?
Whether you are for, against or don't have an opinion at all; I hope if you are reading these series, that you learned something. I have given you the history of the word, and both sides of the argument so what do you think?
- "The N Word" Series Part 1: A Brief History of the Most Hated Word in America
The first part of my three part "N word" Series for Black History Month. This hub focuses on the Etymology and history of the "N word." Also the General Unspoken Rules for saying the "N" Word." USA.
- "The N Word" Series Part 2: Why Some People Support and Use the "N" Word
The second part of my three part "N word" Series for Black History Month. This hub focuses on "The N Word" Series Part 2: Why Some People Support and Use the "N" Word, common meanings of the N word.
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The government should instead let a francophone university run the medical program in the predominantly French-speaking region, say the heads of the Société Saint-Jean Baptiste (SSJB), Impératif français and the Mouvement Québec français.
Jean-Paul Perreault, president of Impératif français, claimed that McGill will provide instruction in English only to mainly francophone students for the first 18 months of the four-year undergraduate medical program.
"This doesn't make any sense," Perreault told reporters Tuesday at the SSJB's headquarters on Sherbrooke St.
"It's humiliating and insulting," he added.
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David Eidelman, dean of medicine at McGill, disputed the claim that courses will be taught only in English for the first year and a half.
"As it stands, only the morning portion of the first 18 months of the undergraduate medical curriculum would be delivered by videoconference in English," Eidelman said by email. "Afternoons would be in French, as would the rest of their studies in the region — undergraduate and residency.
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