I occasionally mess around with some of my presentations on community building. I just pick and poke at them. And I’m always looking for new images to illustrate my points. Sometimes I go back and see what I’ve missed in my image archive, too. I found this nice image of Danese Cooper today. I remember shooting it but forgot about it so it was just sitting there unused. I love it. It’s in.
Almost lost another camera! This time with John Spurling from Twitter. This is the value of using a 24 mm lens. I don’t like the wide angle image, but at least the camera is really close so I can rescue it from danger — or in this case, the wind! I lost a camera in Dubai the previous year when someone crashed into it and knocked it over on to the concrete floor so that’s why I switched to a wide lens to keep the camera close. Back when I did videos on site like this I worked alone so I had to improvise with my equipment.
Here’s an out-take with Heli Helskyaho at Jfokus in 2020. Years ago when I went to events and did video interviews, I used a wide 24 mm lens so the camera was just a few feet away — but people STILL crossed through and ruined the shot! Notice the room behind us? It’s empty. It’s at the end of the event and still people find my camera. Why? I miss doing this work, though. I loved it. Oh, well.
Joi Ito sporting a massive Hasselblad at a local cafe in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo in 2007.
Here are my 120 images from the All India Oracle User Group (AIOUG) OCYatra in India in July 2023. We visited 6 cities over the span of two weeks. Really cool tour. Really brutal tour. I did a session contributing to Open Source projects. Also, here are more conference images from each city from AIOUG: Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad.
Jim Grisanzio at OCYatra 2023. Six city tour of India: Chennai, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Hyderabad. Photo by AIOUG.
Ōura Tenshudō was built in 1864 in Nagasaki and survived the nuclear bombing in 1945 and also 150 years of quakes. I spent a bit of time inside just sitting down and being in the space and thinking about all that history. What was it like to be there? After I took this image outside I had a fascinating conversation with an old man who grew up right there and who lived through it all. He was standing right by me as I shot the image. He was a kid in 1945. Later I went to his home and had some tea.
Oracle Code One 2018 in San Francisco. I hired a photographer to shoot our events at the conference so there was really no reason to pick up a camera. But I couldn’t help myself! I had a camera so I had to shoot. It’s the only thing I like to do, tbh. Anyway, the photographer shot me shooting the keynote, which had piles of Java developers from around the world. These events are all great fun.
Héctor García on a Creative Commons Photowalk in Shimokitazawa in November 2007.
