Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> I enjoyed the scenes from smoking and preserving the fish, Philippe. > I'd like to hear more about it if you remember any details. The men fish sardines, and the women 'smoke' them: they put the sardines circlewise on the beach, cover them with rubbish (paper, plastic etc: the city is full of it) and set fire to it. After a while, when the rubbish doesn't burn anymore, they 'clean' the fish (peel off the skin) and cover it with self produced salt. These with salt covered 'smoked' fish are put on rosters in the sun to dry, after which they are ready to be consumed/sold. It says a lot about poverty if people have to survive this way. An anecdote: these people received material to build real ovens from a charity organisation. It only turned out that the bricks delivered didn't withstand the smoking temperatures. So these ovens stand there without any use. I suspect there are a lot of comparable bad thought through initiatives in Africa, hence a lot of badly spent money through the drain. That is why the organisation I went with doesn't work directly in Senegal, but through local organisations managed by local people. This is the only way things work. > > This shot ... it's the little things ... > > http://www.fullflavor.be/photography/senegal/slides/A_DSC0911.html > > People drinking Coca Cola ... people who probably never drink it > otherwise. > > Tells you something about the water supply and quality :-( > Visitors from the West are terrorized/thoroughly informed about infected water and food, true. So nobody takes the risk of drinking of a bottle/can that hasn't been opened in front of them. But I wondered: the bottles and cans were cooled in large barrels filled with tap water and ice made of tap water. So even if you open the can yourself: there's always some tapwater you'll get in when drinking. Hence contamination risk. A diminished one, true. But nevertheless a risk. I think it's all about common sense, no? If you're bound to be infected, you will be anyway... > Daniel > > > On 6/4/06, Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote: >> For folks with some time: >> >> www.fullflavor.be/photography/senegal >> >> Not everything (a selection of 150 photos of which I think some 65 >> are OK: they are preceded with an *) got downloaded: my webspace is >> overfull. So pages 6, part of 7 and 15 are empty. >> >> But t gives you an idea of the fun/experience I had. >> >> Comments very welcome and >> thanks for looking, >> >> Philippe >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >