Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, Great set of pictures, I like very much the B&W and the pictures of these people, as they work... a great document Saludos Lluis El 06/12/2010, a las 22:09, John Beeching escribi?: > Dear All, > > This summer I spent four weeks in Colombia, one week working and the > remainder visiting the extended family or travelling with my immediate > family - wife, eight year old son and father-in-law. Photographic > opportunities were not abundant as security concerns restrict the > kind of > street photography I normally do. However, in Amazonas we were able > to be a > bit freer. As a plant scientis,t with research interests in > cassava, I was > delighted to come across the local production of farinha. Of more > general > interest, we were invited by an indian community leader, Gustavo, to > visit > his maloca in the forest. Getting there was quite an adventure as our > driver dropped us where the 4x4 could get no further and we had to > wait for > a guide to lead us through to the maloca - an enormous communal > house in a > clearing. There after being refreshed with some home made chicha we > were > taken to the river, during the walk Gustavo waxed lyrical about > plants, the > indian's relationship with nature and the destructive nature of the > white > man - in his enthusiasm he kept slipping out of Spanish into his own > language, which made it difficult to follow. In the river Gustavo > and I sat > up to our necks in the water sorting the world's problems out while my > little boy swam with his grand-daughter. Back at the Maloca we were > offered > his powdered tobacco (snuff) blown up our nostrils through a bone > tube, I > reciprocated by blowing it up Gustavo's - my son did not like it. > Then we > each had a spoonful of powdered coca leaves with ash, by which time > lunch > was ready - grilled fish wrapped in banana leaves and plantains, > accompanied > with cassava bread, all washed down with home-made lemonade. While > the food > was delicious, my father in law and I drank out of politeness, my > son out of > thirst, but my wife did not; wisely, as 24 hours later the men were > rather > unwell! > > http://www.johnbeeching.com/maloca/album/index.html > > The photos: 35mm, Tri-X, Xtol. C & C welcome. > > I am always slightly amused when I read on this forum enquiries > about what > equipment to take on travels: How many bodies? Lenses? Digital and > film? > Tripod? Etc.? More often than not I just take my M6 with the 35mm > Summicron in a bum-bag (fanny-bag) round my waist - light, secure and > inconspicuous, and no back problems! > > Yours, > > John > > -- > John Beeching > http://johnbeeching.com/ > Three Frome Artists: http://www.blurb.com/books/1395201 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information