Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]We left our things at our camp in Maun, Botswana, and headed into the Okavango Delta. People were curious about us on the way and we got a lot of stares: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Botswana/img221a.jpg.html Sitting in our first Mokoro one of the polers decided we were a bit heavy (it might have been my three Leicas, laptop and twenty rolls of film) and needed to go in a deeper one: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Botswana/img231a.jpg.html Once we got going the mokoros were amazingly stable, but standing up did require some practice: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Botswana/img258a.jpg.html The view varied wildly, sometime you could hardly see anything above the grass: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Botswana/img881a.jpg.html (that line might be a kink where I bent the film, or it might be x-ray damage; this roll got scanned a lot of times, including several times at Maun airport, but that's another story). It was amazingly quiet, with only quiet conversation and the sound of the poles pushing through the water. The water was much clearer than I expected. This poler spotted a crocodile: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Botswana/img892a.jpg.html that swam right under our mokoro. Leica MP, 35/1.4 asph and 50/2 Hexanon, yellow filter, mix of Tri-X and Plus-X in Xtol 1+3. Comments etc appreciated. Marty