OpenDir of PNG Pics
by Alex
Err…. I know that sounds like a bad pr0n site, but in fact there are two very cool OpenDirs of pictures from PNG that some random person (too long to explain who) has left open to the public. One is apparently from a trip he and his girlfriend made to “the Tolukuma Gold Mine”:http://dj.dynamo.online.fr/tolukuma/ while the other, shorter series, features spelunking around “Alotau”:http://dj.dynamo.online.fr/alotau/. There’s even a picture of them with Peter Ipatas! It looks like they took a side-trip to Ok Tedi and then stopped either at the Hides gas plant or at Ambua Lodge.
!http://alex.golub.name/pics/vacation.jpg!
These pictures are basically what fieldwork was like for me and it’s fascinating to see someone else’s photos of them. The gold pour they witnessed is, like all pictures of gold pours, not as interesting as being there. Additionally, they commit the sin of trying to take pictures during a helicopter trip. Please note: pictures from helicopters are never anywhere as NEAR fantastic as just going on a helicopter trip and convey nothing of the awesomeness of PNG’s terrain to the uninitiated. It just looks fuzzy. If you ever find yourself in a Longranger crossing a barrier range, don’t take a picture. Just soak it all in — it’ll last longer. Trust me.
Is this one of your photographs or theirs?
It’s a wonderful -fascinating- image
They are not mine. I just found them on the internet.
hi! why is potentially rich and powerful?
Oy. I still get occasional hits from this stupid comment.
I looked at the photographs and didn’t see this one so I assumed it was used for reference, and was taken by Alex Golub. Maybe I was drunk. I imagined it as an image of friendship between two subject/citizens of two different but equally absurd systems of social organization.
My mistake. The two people don’t know each other and maybe she might as well have been on vacation in Disneyland, and leaning on the shoulder of Mickey Mouse. And maybe he’s just smiling for the tourists. But I liked the expressions on their faces. I still hope I was right, but who knows?