After a long yet productive and rewarding weekend consumed by the “Developing People (HR) in Social Change Organizations“ workshop taught by Alfredo Ortiz, Zuzana and I went for drive down the coast toward Big Sur to take a few pictures and get outdoors for a little while.
These are the first photos i’ve shot in black and white with my 7d and I am very impressed with the monocrome settings. I will definitely be shooting more in black and white in the future! Click on images to enlarge them via picasa lightbox!
Somewhere between Carmel and Big Sur. Photo taken on Sunday, February 7th, 2010 with a Canon EOS 7d.
A wood carving at the Nepenthe restaurant and bar in Big Sur, CA.
Team Monterey in El Salvador – A Photographic Exhibition
I’m very proud to announce Team Monterey El Salvador’s upcoming photography exhibition which will be held at the Pacific Grove Art Center in Pacific Grove, CA. The exhibition will feature a few photos that I am still in the process of selecting as well as photos by the esteemed Lucy Jodlowska and other members of Team Monterey El Salvador 2010.
This event will be a great opportunity to give Team Monterey some exposure to a wider audience and will hopefully result in some positive publicity and networking for the sustainability of the practicum. I’m very nervous about having my work shown in an exhibition, I’ve only as of late started shooting and hope that my work will be up to the test!
Below is an event flyer that I created based on an iWork Pages template in which I have incorporated two photos that I took just a few weeks ago. Hope to see you at the exhibition. Saludos.
Nohe Reyes on the Political Situation in El Salvador
Nohé Reyes, a great friend and man of many talents (the former presidente/mayor of Ciudad Romero, lawyer, musician and community organizer) met with us one night at the dormitory in Ciudad Romero to discuss his new role as assistant to the Diputado of Usulutan, Aristides Valencia of the FMLN party. He went on to discuss how El Salvador has changed since Mauricio Funes has become president, migration, trade and violence.
Thanks to the Monterey InstituteDigital Media Commons, we were able to record the audio of this talk using a MicroTrack II audio recorder. Adele Negro, our program director and language faculty put our two interpreters Deborah Radilla and Hilda Diaz to work by having them consecutively interpret her opening and closing remarks. Fantastic stuff… Below is an unedited version of the entire talk. When time permits a cleaner edit with the most essential components of the discussion will be posted.
Here’s another photo from my recent trip to El Salvador with the Team Monterey El Salvador development practicum. I will be continually updating photos as I get around to editing them. We are very excited to announce that Team Monterey will be featured at the Pacific Grove Arts Center for 6 week starting in a few weeks with all of the photos that we’ve taken. More details on this exciting event soon.
Crossing the Lempa River in the Papaya with don Jacobo. A teddy bear from don Jacobo's daughter, FMLN, Futbol Club Barca and Salvadoran flags adorn the cockpit of the microbus.
I captured this piece near the surf town of La Libertad in El Salvador on our way back to the Bajo Lempa from the El Imposible National Park which was the second of our two weekend excursions. Shot with the Canon EOS 7d, built in mic and 50mm f/1.8 EF lens. I think I am going to re-correct it to give it a little bit more of a warm feeling.
Lyrics – La Negra Tomasa:
Estoy tan enamorado de la negra tomasa
que cuando se va de casa triste me pongo
estoy tan enamorado de la negra tomasa
que cuando se va de casa triste me pongo
Estoy tan enamorado de mi negra preciosa
que cuando se va de casa triste me pongo
estoy tan enamorado de mi negra preciosa
que cuando se va de casa triste me pongo
Ay! ay! ay!
Esa negra linda que me tiene loco
que me come poquito a poco
esa negra linda que me tiene loco
que me come poquito a poco
Estoy tan enamorado de la negra tomasa
que cuando se va de casa, triste me pongo
estoy tan enamorado de mi negra preciosa
que cuando se va de casa triste me pongo
Ay! ay! ay!
Esa negra linda que me tiene loco
que me come poquito a poco
esa negra linda que me tiene loco que me come poquito a poco
mi negra linda nunca me dejes
hay mi negra linda nunca me dejes
Day 9: In the spirit of developing capacity, Rocío Corona and I met with the Coordinators and “técnicos” of Asociación Mangle’s Organic Agriculture Production Program to discuss their information management needs and possible uses of technology to overcome their challenges. We initiated our session with an introduction and demonstration of etherpad for the facilitation of our needs assessment. The specific needs of the Production Program includes the management of the following:
Carpeta común, documentos comunes para todos, documentos de afuera
Documentos creados por el programa
Publicar el esfuerzo
Comunicación interno, comunicaciones externos
Elaboracion de base de datos, mander documentos grandes, mandar carpeta… muchos documentos
Ingresas documentos dentro de google, documentos privados
Topics that were covered included creating shared google calendars, sharing documents and folders via google docs, google maps, and wordle. In another session we plan on helping the program set up a blog and jump into the world of embedding (incrustar) various digital content.
Juan Luna, Armando and Roberto of Asociación Mangle's Production Program enjoying themselves at the Cloud Computing and Google Apps workshop.
Rocio Corona (MPA 2010), facilitates a discussion at the Computación en Nube and Google Apps workshop in San Nicolas, El Salvador.
The Capacity Development Team (consisting of Rocío Corona and yours truly) accompanied the Environment Team to the market of Usulután to do some investigative work in seeking out the illicit sale of turtle eggs. Although the Ministry of Environment instituted an outright ban (veda total) on the sale and collection of turtle eggs, we found two stalls that sold them for $4.50 and $5 a dozen respectively. The Environment Team will build up on their project from last year which developed a profile on the “tortugeros” that collected the eggs. This year, the team will take their analysis to another level in studying the socioeconomic impacts that the ban has had on the population of tortugueros in the region. The Ministry of Environment has expressed interest in reviewing the findings of the Environment Team in the hopes of establishing a regime for providing economic alternatives to those that have depended on turtle eggs for generations.
Amy Holste and Andrew Volkman inspect the illicit turtle eggs that were found at the market of Usulután.
