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Found ‘Round the Web… David Alan Harvey
August 27th, 2010Besides sharing my first and middle name, Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey is seemingly as camera bag-obsessed as I am. His collection exceeds my own, but I’m catching up!
Bag World from Stephen Alvarez on Vimeo.
WordPress Wankers…
August 24th, 2010
Well, my inbox has been taking a beating as once again there are a new round of hackers trying to create Admin accounts. This happened to me and other WordPressers almost exactly one year ago. I posted about it last September, after a few weeks of new users popping up at a time when my page views were at their lowest. I made a list and it seemed to be helpful for others, so I will post a new list and add to them as they come into my website.
There appear to be a few Russian email addresses, not unusual in the world if hacking. I’ve also recently noticed a large influx of referrals from Russian casino website which may have something to with this latest set of attacks. What is the new surprise is that another WordPress-based site I visit regularly, Nikonrumors.com, is also referring these attacks. As before, you need to be concerned with these subscriber accounts as they are designed to be a proverbial foot in the door for hackers to convert them into administrator accounts. Of course, some of it is simply forum/blog registration spam. Either way you don’t want them on your site. You can read about many others who have caught these attacks in time, and some after it was too late, by searching for “WordPress hackers.” One way to help filter out these scumbags is to Google any suspicious email addresses. Some are so fishy that they don’t need to be looked up at all. So far we have these uninvited guests:
I’m still here
July 6th, 2010A minor site update for the few who are still paying attention.
Back in the Pack
December 13th, 2009Clearly I have been severely neglecting this website. The “Asides” note below is the sole reason beside my lack of traveling due to surgery repairing a knee injury (torn ACL, torn meniscus, fractured patella). In my downtime I have been formulating the next big thing that I have been none too subtly hinting at on this site. I’ve visited Costa Rica a few times before, the first was with my boarding school way back in 1994, but this visit last April was the first time I got to experience the lesser-known Caribbean coast. There I met some noteworthy characters down there including Tom Snyder and John Brickel, a pair better known through their own non-profit organization – Project Green Jungle.
After many years of formulating, John and Tom, accompanied by input from Jungle Brothers & Sisters like James Opdhal, Heather Trott, Jim Obert, Melissa Soro, and now myself, have conjured up a master plan to benefit the unrepresented and overlooked indigenous tribes of southern Costa Rica collectively known as the Bribri, all while furthering their own zoological goals. A result of living off the radar and suffering less governmental protection than the Costa Rican wildlife, the Bribri’s living conditions are extremely poor. Due to not being accounted for in official census statistics, the overall Bribri population estimates seem to range from ten to thirty thousand, with only a few thousand who still speak their native tongue.
So what does all of this have to do with me and the Packcamera website?
Well, after my return from Costa Rica six months ago, I began pondering if I could offer a workshop that emphasized backcountry and expedition skills alongside photographic instruction. I have lectured before on various subjects, consulted with individuals and small groups and disseminated what knowledge I’ve amassed, but always in small doses. So I had an array of thoughts banging around my head when Tom emailed me with this message:
John Brickel and friend
Just wanted to stop by and say hey. Thought I would let you know we are planning our September trip to Costa Rica. Looking like a 2 week stay in Hitoy Cerere. Let me know if you wanna come, man I guarantee you of some stuff you have never seen before. If you cant make it in September, let me know what time of year is good for you and we will try to make the next trip then. Really think you would enjoy the trip.
Hope things are going well. We got a formal request from the government of Costa Rica to come back for the September trip so that is good. Also working on a pretty big article on the water quality stuff. Let me know how you are doing man…keep in touch,
Pura Vida,
It all went downhill after that…
I began conferencing and workshopping ideas with Tom and quickly realized my goals and their own could easily merge for our mutual benefits. We began outlining different expeditions that could be operated and organized by myself and Project Green Jungle, who were already well established in Costa Rica. Ultimately, these excursions aim to promote and fund PGJ’s social and ecological conservation efforts while utilizing several like-minded and eco-conscious experts in an genre of photography that is fairly under-appreciated. Collectively, we can establish a niche in the over-saturated photo workshop arena, that is unique and difficult to reproduce.
So without further prefacing, I would like to introduce GreenPhotoTours a collaboration with Project Green Jungle and myself. We aim to start offering expeditions, workshops and tours in late 2010 with some early trial runs in the spring of 2010.
I hope to have the website finalized with the full itinerary offerings outlined sometime in January. Finding a web developer on a limited budget is rather difficult. Green Jungle and I will be cross posting on each other sites from time to time, and together we will have some exciting collaborations planned including a raffle that will include a position on one of our springtime so-called ‘guinea pig’ tours, exclusive and limited-edition artwork, and rare indigenous Bribri artifacts.
So, essentially this is an announcement to proclaim ‘I’m back,’ and I will be kicking things off with an article which epitomizes what this site is really all about. So bookmark all our sites, subscribe to our feeds, and enjoy.
Digital Nikonos?
September 21st, 2009
The Nikonos was the underwater camera for decades. I owned a Nikonos II that was well known for being able to survive a flooding or two. I the days of film, more advanced divers and watersport photographers would invest in a housing for their SLRs, while the vacationer usually had a waterproof disposable camera or a basic waterproof underwater camera to choose from. But the mid range was dominated by Nikonos, and the sales of these cameras dwarfed the high- and low-end underwater/waterproof markets. Judging by the plethora of Nikonoses still in circulation on eBay, there is still a viable market to be addressed.
An Off-Topic Rant (first of many to come)
September 3rd, 2009
I was born into an analog world. Fortunately the peak of my photographic career overlapped with the advent of digital, so I have been gifted with a strong foundation in both worlds. So much so, that my personal workflow generally mixes the use of film and a computer for even the simplest of projects. I am very much of the mindset that there is a right tool for every job and it is my imperative to understand not only which is which, but how to utilize that tool as well. That being understood may lay a foundation for the rant to follow.
Warning to WordPressers
September 2nd, 2009
This is a warning to my fellow WordPress users… over the past few days there have been some hackers taking over our sites via accounts setup for new users. The attacks seem to be centered in Europe, Germany primarily, by registering users with Gmail acounts. I have received three over the past three days which after a quick Google search on the email address netted several sites with the same warning.
So I will promote the advice by another savvy and alert WordPresser who caught one of the same addresses registering at his site. Don’t use the default admin user name ( I never did in the first place), and change your password just in case (that I just did).
I am joining in the network of those posting about this hack/attack in order to warn others. I am going to post the names and emails of the attack accounts I have been contacted by below. This is by no way complete as there do seem to be several others out there. Feel free to comment or contact me with any you may have encountered.
September 2
Sepember 1
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Esoteric Slowdown
June 11th, 2009
Since my return from Costa Rica, I have been a wee-bit flaky. As such, side projects like this site have become somewhat neglected. As I have hinted before, I have something big up my sleeve for this site and in the meantime, it is rapidly taking shape in the background. This site will have some pretty interesting exclusives and become a great resource for adventurous imagemakers. So be patient – it will be worth it.
So in the meantime, feel free to contact me with any site or topic suggestions – david at packcamera dot com (sorry for not including a direct link but I am bombarded by enough bot-fed spam).
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