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Call for Help – The Eyes of Tanzania – Book

Monday, August 17th, 2009

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Bloggers, Twitters and Friends,

I need your help! Help me spread the word about my book “The Eyes of Tanzania”.
The project has made donations to 4 schools and has helped fund a windmill for power in another school.

The impact is real!

I recently received a e-mail that gave me goose bumps reading, from one of the schools last week. The donation we made has impacted 12 children, giving them exercise books, pen, pencils, other reading books and has paid for the fees of the 3rd term of secondary school for one student. It is amazing!

Thanks to everyone who has done so much already!

So, Now I am in phase two.
I have just ordered a new batch of books and they are ready to be sold and I need your help to spread the word!
I would be happy to talk to anyone about the project or give a talk about it if any one is interested.
Just as a reminder – all profits go back to the groups that I visited in Tanzania and organizations supporting the growth and positive future of the African nations.

For you bloggers you can use these images for any posts about the project.

http://eoinvincent.com/media.html

If you need a PDF version of the book, for review, let me know.

The book is on sale and available online at

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24611806

It is also available at

Rockport Art Association
12 Main St
Rockport, MA 01966-1594
(978) 546-6604

Toad Hall Book Store
47 Main St
Rockport, MA 01966-1597
(978) 546-7323

You can always learn more at my blog

http://www.eoinvincent.com/tza/

Thanks

Eoin

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How many photos…

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

One of the keys of this trip is image storage. I decided early on that I was not going to bring my laptop and in one of my photography magazines I read of this great product call the photo safe. It is cost effective, simple and did one thing well, store images. So, early on I went out and got one, the 40 GB one.

40 GB, that’s a lot of images, 7000 with my Nikon currently, but if you break that out over 14 days (like I did a few nights ago) that’s 500 images a day. This scared me and honestly my fear was that this is not enough and that the storage might start censoring myself. That might sound funny, but I can shoot 120 images of a barn in a hour, put me in a orphanage in Tanzania and how many will I take. It really is a question I can not answer.

So, I have gone out and purchased another one. This way I can create some sort of back up and it will give me enough space to feel like I can be creative if I want to.

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it’s all about the glass

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

A few days ago I stop by the local camera  (the Camera Corner) store to pickup an extra lens cap for my Nikon. Carl has been a great help the last 6 months with some small projects so I fingered I would buy the lens cap from him. He was looking at my camera and exclaimed something to the effect, “great camera and very nice lens, but why are you destroying your image quality with the cheap UV lens filter”.

He was right I did have a cheap filter on the lens, but I never of it down grading my image quality, I always thought of the lens and never beyond it.

Good lens = good photo

Good lens, poor filter = ok photo

So, I left his shop with a new Rodenstock filter and a little wiser.

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Lets Go Solar

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Well, yesterday was a fantastic day when it can to new power solutions for my trip. My ASI rep from (Source 4) Ken stopped by with a small solar bag that Gemline has donated for my trip. I am ecstatic about this because my camera batteries will charge with this setup nicely.

He also had 3 crank flashlights for me to take with me. One of them has a USB power out on it and during my quick tests I was able to start charging my ipod from the crank…

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