FROM JUBA TO ZIM - MAY 2014

FROM JUBA TO ZIM

well, had a successful shoot in Juba, South Sudan, and now i'm of to Zimbabwe to watch a friend race in the Harare Derby! should be a fun 5 days! gone june 5-10! then need to add more pages to US passport! out of clean pages for country Visas that eat up a whole page!

here are some pics from the Juba mission. Juba is a frontier town. kinda scary. lots of military. not allowed to shoot much with video or stills. but had a good week there. an interesting place for sure! and civil unrest under your breath. but juba is relatively mild civil war wise. but lots of VIPs and expensive Toyotas!

here we go...

nice screen shot of Oscar from my Canon 5D with the 50mm prime

a nice screen grab from my GoPro 3 at 150 feet high! i climbed the tower and had instant street
cred!!

hearse, casket, and funeral party all in one in Kenya! they pack em in. they spend a fortune on funerals! and go in debt. 

the trusty feline, Paka-paka, he will be missed when i finally move.

incredible sky in nairobi during the wet season. sunset here at a rugby field

up at dawn for an early flight to juba

walking the gangway down to the planes at JKIA.

African Airlines. why not?

the internet cafe at the old Logali House in Juba. an old colonial feel to the place.

the shoot was an internet communication company in Juba. here's the tower i climbed.

my camera assistant and driver for the week....mathew.

juba airport filled with planes from the UN and giant choppers.
Juba is full of NGO's and Aid workers. it's the youngest nation in the world...and has oil.
lots of do-gooders there.

watched this storm from tower. it's rainy season in South Sudan thankfully so it was relatively cool
the rain come down hard just as i got down on the ground.

view from above.

the top.

juba is full of sketchy housing. and places cost a fortune. i upgraded from this rubber
ducky shower curtain motel to the Logali House. ahhh!

morning commuters. playing chicken with the oncoming traffic.

Al Jezeera TV on 24-7, like CNN.

Juba feels like the wild west. wide open.

in our digital world redundant hard drives back up every day's footage. impossible with film.

the crew working hard assembling the new satellite dishes for the low orbit low-latency internet sats.

the old mozzy net at logali house. always nice to have.

terrace at logali house at night. a busy place til the 8pm town curfew!

the rain and fresh potholes

sometimes with the mud you weren't sure if things were passable. on the way to the Nile.

container living

$3750 per month for a half a container on a secure compound by the Nile.

breakfast inclusive

not exactly homey, but no one is in Juba for more than a year or 2 contract.

pothole or sinkhole??

dawn over Juba.

the morning latte at Logali.

Logali terrace, ready to go to work. 50mm prime on the 5D. 32GB CF card for storage.

Juba, hot and dusty.

it was a 30 minute drive between sites.

dishes looking good. getting this shot was tight.

finally on my last day in the afternoon we did the time lapse shot. got it.

more beauty of towers and dishes. 

drive by shot in Juba.

Matthew overslept on sunday so i hopped a motorcycle-taxi to the airport...laptop bag over the left
shoulder, camera bag over the right shoulder, and the tripod around the neck down the back.
carry on bag on my driver's lap. but we made it.

semi empty plane left an open window seat in the back

time to look down and reflect this sunday morning on a 1000 days in africa.

the bus shuttle back at in NBO at JKIA

kenya airways. they have some very nice planes now.

african caterpillar at The Stable. don't touch!

my landlord's cool garden house with thatched roof. a nice haven.

my garden gecko. i see him regularly. here blending into the fence. next blog ZIM!