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Bektour in America
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4 minutes and 25 seconds
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Turkey
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English
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Video Blog
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David Sasaki
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David Sasaki
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Posted by:
oso on Dec 1, 2009
Bektour Iskender is a veteran blogger from Kyrgyzstan who recently traveled throughout the United States.
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- Bektour in America
- Hello my name is Bektour Iskender. I am from Kyrgyzstan.
- There are really many buses going around
- because we are in what is probably one of the busiest parts of Istanbul, in Turkey.
- Another bus. But I'm not going to talk about Turkey today.
- I am going to talk about the USA.
- The country in the western hemisphere
- in North America
- to the north of Jamaica, which I visited this year
- and where I spent three weeks as part of the journalism program organized by the Department of State.
- ♫♫♫♫♫♫
- The first impression was about meeting Bob Woodward.
- Because he is like one of my heroes.
- For quite a long time he's been my real hero.
- And suddenly I found out that he actually exists.
- He's not a fairy tale person.
- And I met him in Washington DC. And for the first time in my life I was behaving like a teenager
- who came to a rock concert. Because before then
- I had already met several famous people.
- But I usually didn't ask for any autographs. I thought that it would
- be ridiculous to behave like this.
- It would show that I'm lower than them in some parameters.
- That would show something that I really didn't want to show about myself.
- But, suddenly this time, it was a person who I admire a lot.
- And I got really crazy.
- He came into the auditorium where we had a meeting with him
- and I started taking dozens of pictures.
- From the same angle maybe.
- And maybe it was not justified, but I just couldn't stop doing it.
- I was shocked that I was seeing Bob Woodward live.
- ♫♫♫♫♫
- Milwaukee was a mystery for me before I was going there
- because I really didn't know anything about this city.
- I thought that we would come to a typical American city
- which would mean that it would be just skyscrapers of steel and glass
- and things like this. And then suddenly I came to Milwaukee and found out that it's actually a very interesting city
- built by Germans in the 19th century mostly.
- And it has many old churches, which is just amazing.
- And I took pictures of them. Many, many pictures of them.
- But my mistake was to go and take pictures of Milwaukee when it was Sunday.
- And that's where the real America was
- because in America you have downtown and then you have residential areas.
- Which means that on Sunday you basically have no people [downtown].
- So I have all these beautiful pictures of Milwaukee
- with old German-style buildings, but no people around.
- So Milwaukee in my pictures looks like really a ghost town.
- Like Chernobyl probably.
- ♫♫♫♫♫
- I like taking pictures of birds, but we don't have that many big birds in my country -
- we are too far from the sea probably.
- And, when we came to the pacific ocean in San Diego,
- I suddenly saw many many sea gulls at once place
- I really wanted to take pictures of them because sea gulls are something really exotic for me.
- But then I found out that they are moving too fast and are not willing to be photographed by me.
- And I was thinking, how would it be better to make it in such a way that they would fly.
- And at the same time I would make really good and sharp pictures of them.
- One idea was to kill them so that they would not move.
- But I thought that animal rights activists would be against that.
- Then I found out that the wind was blowing from the ocean and it was quite strong
- so I started running like crazy on the beach
- and frightening these poor little birds
- so they would start flying, but they would start flying in the direction against the wind.
- And then they would just hang in the air
- trying to move, but they were basically not moving because the wind was strong.
- And that's how I managed to take several pictures where they are sharp, and I think those pictures are quite good.
- ♫♫ See Bektour's photos and follow his blog at ♫♫


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