When I went on a safari several years ago some folks in my group were disappointed that we didn’t experience a kill. I was happy enough that we didn’t, especially since it seemed to be a time of year with lots of babies.
Babies at Masai Mara
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Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2019-Week 35
A PHOTO CHALLENGE OF PLACES WE SIT…OR MIGHT SIT…OR ART ABOUT SITTING
Welcome to week 35 of the Pull up a Seat Challenge in 2019.
Take a load off and share a favorite perch by linking your post to this one, either with a comment or ping-back. For more detailed directions go to Pull Up a Seat page.
It is always fun to see the variety of ideas.
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Lions…oh my!
One of the awesome, actually awesome, things about my trip to Masai Mara several years ago was that our little safari group saw so many lions that we didn’t get excited about them anymore. Looking back, I wonder how I could ever have gotten to that point since I was only there three days!
Building Kwa Muema
Kwa Muema means “Good Place”, but I can’t remember if it is Swahili or Kikamba. It was the name of the secondary school under construction in these pictures.
One of my various projects these past few months has been to learn more about post-processing. Cee’s challenge this week gives me a chance to try out some vintage black and white techniques in LightRoom. I thought they suited the classic nature of the subject: these pictures could have been taken almost any time in the last hundred years.
These are pictures taken on my first trip to Africa. We went as part of a “mission trip” (not a good description, but I may never be able to fully process the trip and find words for what it actually was). We were planning to help with construction of a new classroom for the secondary school. But, for the most part, our help wasn’t really wanted (it took paying jobs away, but there was also some political weirdness).
For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Construction Related
Is the road going forward? or back?
I’ve been working with old photos lately. Here are some ways from a visit to Masai Mara National Park in Kenya in 2012.
Posted for Son of a Beach’s Which Way Photo Challenge
African women at work
Pull up a seat Photo Challenge-week 2
Welcome to week 2 of Pull up a Seat. Take a load off and share a favorite perch by linking your post to this one, either with a comment or pingback. For more detailed directions go to Pull Up a Seat page.
Thank you to everyone who is participating. It is really fun to see all the different ideas conjured up by the theme.
- Na’ama Yahuda
- Teleporting Weena
- Highways and byways of my life
- The 59 Club
- Cee’s Photography
- Chronicles of an AngloSwiss
- Nut House Central
- Morepeth Road
- Wanderlust and Merriment
- That Little Voice
- Q’s Place
Here are my photos for this week. These were taken several years ago in the Kitui area of Kenya, most in the village of Mulundi.
Men sitting:
My son visting with a new friend on a day so hot the dogs barely twitched.
Three generations.
Women sitting (notice the difference?)
Seamstress in Kitui market town.
Shelling peas and shooing chickens.
Making mandazi.
Making mandazi.
Finally a rest: Working hard all week makes Sundays extra special. The worship services are a real celebration with a lot of singing and dancing. These catholic ladies are wearing choir clothes, so they probably earned a rest. I saw them perform at a village function and they are really wonderful. I smile just remembering.
Over to you. Add a link to your post in the comment section.
They’re everywhere: Fences from here and there
In Japan
Unusual bamboo fence where the bamboo was split and unrolled. They must have steamed it flat.
Fences around lantern in Toyama.
In Ireland:
In Africa:
Rift Valley Viewpoint
Rift Valley Viewpoint
Monkeys on the fence at Lake Nakuru
Fence at Kichwa Tembo Airstrip
In China:
Weifang park
Mount Tai
Eye of the Tortoise at Mount Tai.
Prayer ribbons on a temple fence at Mount Tai.
Decorative fence at Shibao temple on the Yangtze.
White Emperor City on the Yangtze.
In Montana:
Wind fence.
East Glacier Lodge.
In Missouri:
I was surprised at how many fence pictures I have. After going through my archives looking specifically for fences I realized that I have a tendency t use them as framing elements in photos.
Giraffes
One of my favorite animals!
They seem so improbable.
Going through my pictures to find these made me once again aware how very fortunate I am to have been able to see them in their natural environment…
Free range mothers
Happy mother’s day!
Once my son told me that his co-teachers expressed concern that I was left on my own while he worked (I assume this was at least in part due to their recognizing how poor my Chinese language skills are). At the time the term “free range children” was in vogue, so I told him to say that he believed in free range mothers. I wonder how that would translate.
Just for fun here are some truly wild mamas.
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