David Shankbone to go back to Israel for Wikimedia

Posted by David Shankbone at 7/31/2008 9:58 AM and is filed under Wikipedia
Last December I traveled to Israel where I had lunch with Yitzhak Apeloig, the president of their premiere university, the Technion, and interviewed their President and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Shimon Peres (photo, right).
David Shankbone and Shimon Peres
In the next few months I will be returning to the Holy Land for a week-long photography expedition.  From the students of Haifa to the dolphins of Eilat; from the vineyards of the Galillee to the Bedouins of The Negev; I will engage in a photographic documentary of the people and landscape of Israel.  The goal is to create a comprehensive body of images of the country that are licensed as free content, meaning my work will be available to everyone via Wikimedia for both commercial and non-commercial uses.

Watch this blog for updates.

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  • 7/31/2008 2:15 PM Steven Walling wrote:
    This is awesome but I want to play devil's advocate here for a minute...

    You've already photographed Israel once. Why go again? It already has a fairly strong community of Wikimedians to my understanding, so why not go to a more neglected country?
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    1. 7/31/2008 2:35 PM David Shankbone wrote:
      My last trip to Israel was not for photography, and my photos really suffered from the constant travel.  Many photographs that I uploaded were taken from a bus window in motion, such as the Judean Dessert and Dead Sea Lemon Orchard in the Galilee by David Shankbone photos.  The photo of a lemon orchard at the right was one of my favorites, but if you click on it and enlarge it, you can see that the grass at the bottom is blurred because it was shot from a bus.  It was  frustrating to take photographs that I loved, but that had major flaws.  This trip will correct that to a large extent.

      Last time I went it was a Wikinews trip where I wrote articles about the experience and published interviews.  This time it is strictly photography.  I might do an interview, and I will definitely blog while I am there.  Israel is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, and where the world's three largest organized religions converge.  Between the temples, mosques, churches, people, architecture and natural beauty, I barely blinked my lens at what there is to photograph. 

      Lastly, I go where I am invited, and the Israelis invited me back. 



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      1. 7/31/2008 3:30 PM Steven Walling wrote:
        Sounds great! I'll be looking forward to more coverage.
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    2. 8/1/2008 7:23 PM David Goodheart wrote:
      ........maybe because there are so many things to see in Israel, and the media doesn't show it........? Thanks to Wikimedia; we Wikimedians will be able to see real life in one of THE most reported on the globe !!

      I found this site where there are so many interesting stories about Israel: www.isrealli.org
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  • 7/31/2008 11:58 PM Andy wrote:
    Kudos Dave, your work is top notch, as I have said before. Sounds exciting.
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