Through the Lens of My Eye; Adventures of a Documentary Cameraman eBook Michael Boland
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WARNING This is NOT a ‘How-to-be-a-documentary-cameraman’ book. Rather, this is a non-fiction book where I take the reader on different journeys throughout the world as I practiced my craft of 35 years – filming and making documentaries. The stories I chose to tell are filled with the most diverse group of characters in some of the remotest parts of the planet. Most of these assignments were extreme, involving risk and they could have been fatal but fortunately, I hope you’ll agree, I survived to write about these adventures for all to share and enjoy. Every chapter is one of discovery, of new friends, of strange occurrences or odd-ball characters – from Greenland to Mt. Everest, the Congo, Peru and Brazil, Sumba in Indonesia, war-ravaged Afghanistan and the Middle East conundrum of Israel and Palestine. My job as a cinematographer was to capture the visual elements required to tell the story. There were inherent challenges to address and overcome, some hard and some, impossible. I tried to keep the technical aspects to a minimum but in some instances those technical details were intrinsic to the story. I made some wonderful friends and resourceful enemies. In many instances the locales were extremely remote and therefore off any tourist grid. The world of documentary filming allows a few of us to experience that.
The trip down the coast of East Greenland became death-defying although we were initially lulled into a guise of beauty and tranquility; that was until a hurricane capsized our support yacht leaving us adrift and rudderless at the mercy of a violent Mother Nature. Death-defying could also be applied to attempting to film gorillas in the N’Doki rainforest of the Congo. Accompanied by ten Bembemgele pygmies and traipsing through one of the most remote locations on the planet, one faced an almost instantaneously fatal snake bite, a flash flood or a murderous charge by a camera-shy male gorilla. I was well aware of the potential dangers but the thrill and allure of the assignments was too great. They all drew me like a magnet. It was much the same in Afghanistan except a misstep could trigger off an IED (improvised explosive device). As for the chapter on Mt. Everest, I was walking in the footsteps of my great friend Blair Griffiths who died in the Khumbu Ice Fields on the ‘82 Canadian Expedition, crushed by an avalanche of ice blocks the size of school buses. There’s a chapter on the Wodaabe Nomads of northern Niger, our eager hosts, that’s as exotic and sexual as tribal society can get.
So why did I continue on these travels, some narrowly skirting disaster? The answer is simple; it’s an all-consuming business that allows me to push myself to the absolute limit. It provides an outlet for my creative side and intrinsically I’m a storyteller. I share their overwhelming curiousity for the planet and its inhabitants. Like them I have a need to tell those stories. Serendipity has carried me down this path. I never planned it this way but it’s been, I hope you agree, a most intriguing life and one to share.
Through the Lens of My Eye; Adventures of a Documentary Cameraman eBook Michael Boland
Simply put, this is a wonderful book. A real page turner. Good stories told very very well.These stories are intriguing and often astonishing. The characters are solid; present. The situations are real. Reading it was like "being there".
An adventure book. This book brings us adventures in collaboration; adventures in communication; adventures in planning; adventures in patience; adventures in hope, courage, confidence, and perseverance. It's a book about people, places and things. It is a book about situations, actions, and reactions.
It is ultimately, a book about "playing well with others".
I enjoyed this book very much.
Highly recommended.
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Through the Lens of My Eye; Adventures of a Documentary Cameraman eBook Michael Boland Reviews
Earl de Blonville, in his review appearing below, refers to a chapter in Boland's book about an expedition to Greenland that de Blonville led. And he fails to reveal that he is the self-published author of a competing version of events describing the 1986 Greenland Expedition. His book, Seventh Journey, in which he stars as the hero, never made it to so there is little chance for comparison with Michael Boland's book. De Blonville's book, ironically, also lacked "a wise editor". Boland, on the other hand, has made his work available for the enjoyment and scrutiny of millions and very reasonably priced. Having read Boland's chapter on the Greenland kayaking expedition and most of the relevant parts from Seventh Journey I would have to say Boland's perspective is the more believable just from the tone and the fact that he has made a profession of recording events.
In any case, the expedition in question, which arrived in Greenland far too late in the season to imagine completing the objective and which stayed on past prudent judgement as winter approached (mostly to have some kind of film footage to calm restless investors) succeeded mainly in the sense that everyone got home alive (barely). And Earl de Blonville was the leader of that ill-fated expedition, a detail he has let no one in hearing range forget for the ensuing 27 years. (sarcasm alert) In a remarkable display of alchemy, Earl has turned an expedition characterized by poor timing, misjudgement and fractious relations into a crucible from which he alone emerged triumphant as a self-declared guru of modern leadership theory, Australia's gift to rudderless captains of industry worldwide. A couple of quotes from Earl may capture his essence for the reader
"Leading this apparently doomed venture is a charismatic young man. But behind his urbane style lies an iron determination to succeed whatever the odds, or costs, or die in the attempt. He has stipulated that should he be killed, he is to be buried on the shore and the group must continue." From "Seventh Journey' (written by Earl de Blonville Bloomfield FRGS about himself)
And this summation of why CEO's in need of leadership growth should pay Earl thousands of dollars daily to holystone his decks at [...] "Embarking on your voyage of Postformal Leadership represents a freedom to develop as a leader at your own pace within an enhanced consciousness of your own emergence."
Boland's book, which ranges around the world through genuine adventures in a variety of cultures, rings true and is a very enjoyable read.
In case Earl's review should be lost in the ether, I'll reproduce it here
1.0 out of 5 stars Needs some truth surgery, October 13, 2013
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Earl de Blonville
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This review is from Through the Lens of My Eye; Adventures of a Documentary Cameraman ( Edition)
Mike Boland is one of life's great characters, and a wonderful guy to travel with. He is also a fearless and creative cameraman whose early life in professional in hockey equipped him well for the wild adventures he has filmed. However, based solely on a reading of his Greenland chapter, I think the author needs to rethink this book as it does not serve him or his readers well. A wise editor would be a great help in rescuing this book from its infamy.
This book is defamatory, shallow and lacks the mature insight the reader deserves into the people he tries to introduce. He maligns his travelling companions and in particular makes a wholly unwarranted attack on his employer, offering untrue information and motivations which he has simply, and possibly maliciously, invented - as in many cases he describes scenarios at which he was not present. In expedition circles this kind of schoolgirl sniping is regarded as extremely poor form and renders a work of no merit, historically. In the case of Greenland, this work has more typos than Tolstoy and far too many factual errors and misinformation. It is badly researched, if it is researched at all.
It is a great pity that the author did not think this work though, because in other ways he has given the world so much that is is beautiful. This book is not how we should remember his considerable cinematic achievements.
Pretty great insider stories of the documentary film industry.
Simply put, this is a wonderful book. A real page turner. Good stories told very very well.
These stories are intriguing and often astonishing. The characters are solid; present. The situations are real. Reading it was like "being there".
An adventure book. This book brings us adventures in collaboration; adventures in communication; adventures in planning; adventures in patience; adventures in hope, courage, confidence, and perseverance. It's a book about people, places and things. It is a book about situations, actions, and reactions.
It is ultimately, a book about "playing well with others".
I enjoyed this book very much.
Highly recommended.
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