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See Tim Kemple’s previous photography tips >> Beginner and amateur photographers ask me often for photography tips. As image creators, we are always learning, but there is one piece of advice I always come back to. The biggest mistake I see amateur photographers make is photographing with the sun behind their backs. Gasp … I…
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This is part 3 of 4 in the Rios Libres video series. The goal of the series is to highlight four different aspects of the fight against five proposed dams in Chile’s Patagonia region. Each video is accompanied by articles written by experts in the field. A new video will launch each Monday in June.…
Alexandra Cousteau on Kilimanjaro, the Clean Water Crisis, and Transgender Fish
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 12, 2010 You’d expect someone who has spent most of her life at or below sea level to sweat a little harder hiking up 19,340-foot Kilimanjaro on the Summit on the Summit climb last January. Not so for Alexandra Cousteau, granddaughter of Jacques, lifelong water advocate, and a National Geographic emerging explorer. While she can’t explain why altitude sickness didn’t…
Jimmy Chin on Climbing Superstars Vs. Hollywood Stars
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 11, 2010 Climb with the world’s best alpinists and you’ll end up seeing the planet’s most beautiful, least visited places, such as China's Minya Konka massif. Climb with a bunch of actors and musicians on Kilimanjaro to draw attention to the global clean water crisis and you’re going to be number one on Twitter. Climber-photographer Jimmy Chin,…
Actors, Musicians, Explorers Climb Kilimanjaro for Clean Water – Documentary Airs on Sunday
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 11, 2010 
In January, a team of actors, musicians, and National Geographic explorers—Jimmy Chin and Alexandra Cousteau—set out to climb Africa’s tallest peak, 19,340-foot Kilimanjaro, to raise awareness about the global clean water crisis. (Read more from Chin and Cousteau in interviews we will post later today.) According to the United Nations' Millennium Water for Life initiative,…
CamelBak Gives Water Bottles to Bottle-Banning Australian Town
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on September 28, 2009 CamelBak Australia is donating 2,000 of its Better Bottles to Bundanoon, a tiny tourist town 90 miles southwest of Sydney, Australia, that voted in July to ban the sale of bottled water. The difference with the CamelBak bottles, of course, is that they won’t be pitched into the rubbish at the end of the day.…
Not a Drop to Drink: Flow Reviewed
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on September 15, 2008 Text by Andrew Burmon Flow, the new documentary by French filmmaker Irena Salina (watch the trailer), is not the first attempt to alert the international community to the looming worldwide water shortage … and it will not be the last. Over the last few years the debate over the future of water has begun to…
