Posts in Category: travel photos
I give…
Flattery will get you everywhere. After like a gazillion (ok, maybe 4) emails, I give in. Here is the picture I’m using at the top of the pages on my blog. I’ve uploaded a large size file, so those who asked for a desktop pic size have it. Thanks for the beautiful words about this shot MM, JK, and KC.
site
Rebel XT
55mm
market going
Did not get out to shoot today, so it’s a post from the past. I did, however, find a review of the camera I used to shoot this picture – the Sony Mavica FD-71. Back in the day? Decent camera considering you didn’t need film. Now? Laughable. Oh, it was digital… at 640×480 and saved files to a floppy disk. I should’ve shot film.
Just outside of Dakar, along the main road, I took this as folks were heading home from a day at the market. I haven’t been to Dakar in over a year now and am starting to get itchy feet to go. Anybody want to go to Dakar with me this summer?
market going
red
Was hanging out after dinner – enjoying a great sunset across the Indian Ocean – when this brazen dude came to see what I was doing. His eyes startled me a bit, but he was kind enough while he visited. He got some of my bread as a treat for staying to get in the shot.
redCanon Rebel XT55mmbuilt-in flash wrapped in available cocktail napkin for softer fill light… a bit softer anyway
towers
Had just gotten off the elevator, was waiting in line for the next one, and saw the orange sunset on the steel out of the corner of my eye.
towers
Canon Rebel XT
ISO 400 at 60
55mm
a few months later
Same truck as posted before – same back road about 20mi W of St. Ignace, MI. Just a few months later.
underneath
market boys
The market was closing for the day – meetings ran long, couldn’t find film… But I still got a few shots in.
market boys
parade
In town to work with the District Six Museum, other participants, and to conduct some interviews during a conference a few years back…An impressive neighborhood band led a parade after the banner painting and storytelling one evening. As the band warming up pretty much put an end to our video interviews, we had a great time talking to the band, listening… fun evening.
parade
citrus
Looking over the pictures I’ve posted recently – they reek of dark winter. Tis the season, but the blog at least should have more color. This one took some digging into the old files but I had him in my mind to post. David sells citrus fruit at a market in Cape Town, where I’ve been buying fresh fruit from him for years. He has one of the more interesting faces I’ve seen.The charms on the post behind him? They keep dark spirits from decaying the fruit – so you now it’s good. Turns out I like my fruit without decaying darkness.
good citrusRebl XTISO 100 at 400
seeking
Wouldn’t mind being here right now. I remember it was cooler, but not cold. Warm sun occasionally trickled through.
aspire
Rebel XT
55mm
