On the 28th of February 2001, Buck and Luciene moved to the Amazon Basin of Brazil. We lived in Macapá, right on the equator. Why would a web designer give up his career and take his family from their comfortable life in Columbus, Ohio, USA, to live on the Amazon River? We came with a vision to save the Amazon, to tell people about Jesus, and plant a Vineyard church. We have planted a church, and we are turning it over to the national leaders, heading back to the States in Sept. 2009.

 
Man, I just ran across a Chinese photographer, Zhou Hai, really awesome images. He uses a Leica. I traded all my fancy Nikon equipment for one manual Leica, and I am still trying to figure out if that was a good move, or one of the stupidest things I have ever done :-) It is definately a change.

Zhou Hai's work kind of reminds me of one of my heroes, Sabastiao Salgado, a Brazilian photographer.

It has kind of encouraged me, I am feeling my photography juices flowing again. I have been shooting with the digital some, but that is about it. I haven't really been shooting so much conventional, I have about 6 rolls to develop already. It is really hard to find the Black and White stuff here in Macapá. I may have to order it all from São Paulo or something.
posted by Eduardo Buck at Monday, August 04, 2003