Visit to Fairytale land

While in Lisbon for the Volvo Ocean Race my wife and I took Sunday off and visited the world heritage town of Sintra...

Venice re-visited

It has been more than twenty years since I first visited Venice as deck hand on the yacht Joss. We stopped at the end of a month long charter on the then Yugoslav coast. The boat was in Venice for two weeks. I would take every opportunity to go exploring and took many photos. Though in those days I was shooting film and not earning much so I was quite economical with my film. I have regretted that and so have vowed to use any spare time during the America's Cup World Series Regatta to get out and make up for those lost shots.

Here are a few I've made so far.

 

Sightseeing in Naples

A wet and cold week in Naples for the America's Cup World Series regatta.
Flying out late the Monday after the regatta finished left an opportunity to do a little sight seeing...

Nat Geo fantasies realised

I always loved flicking through National Geographic magazines as a kid. Imagining myself shooting amazing things in exotic locations.

 While this was only for an afternoon it was a very nice reminder of those fantasies.

A busy year

2011 has been an awesome year for me.
So much going on. Not only with Emirates Team New Zealand doing both the CAMPER VOR campaign and the America's Cup World Series but also with other clients. Barcelona World Race in February, a few Yacht beauty shoots and continued work on a few books. Here is a taste of the images I can make public.

2011 roundup - Images by Chris Cameron

Power Octopus

One of the main impetus for my inventions is saving weight and volume of the gear I need when traveling to regattas around the world.
At the moment I am traveling with two camera battery chargers, an AA charger and the adapter / charger for my MacBook Pro (Another plus side to running an iPhone was no charger).
This requires several cables and hence requires adapters for the different sockets encountered around the world.
The Apple charger has a very nifty system of inter-changable slide in adapters to easily convert the charger from one socket type to another. This system uses the standard figure 8 style socket in the charger so it will also take any of the small computer / jug style cords supplied with most hardware.


The little octopus (Tritopus?) I have made is three male jug cord ends into one female jug cord socket.
So now all I need to travel with is two or three Apple plugs and the Octopus.

 I couldn't find a socket at any of the electronics or electrical supply stores at home so ended up recycling a socket from an obsolete appliance.
A bit of careful soldering and Voila. The rubber cover over the socket was a lucky find in the local electrical supply store, not entirely sure what it was meant for but it works perfectly here.


On a safety note. If you intend to copy this idea, I take no responsibility for any damage to you, your equipment or you burning down a hotel / home etc.
All the appliances I plug in will take 110/115 or 220/240 volts and draw less than 500mA.