[Leica] IMG: Bagamoyo and surroundings

[Tina Manley]

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Tina

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote:

> My trip to Tanzania was as photo documentarian for a service trip by a
> group of students from the College of St. Scholastica, a Benedictine
> Catholic college in Duluth, Minnesota. Some of the images will be to
> document that trip. I’m posting images here that I feel might be of
> interest. Following a link to my SmugMug site will allow you to browse any
> of the other images. Many of those will be oriented to the trip documentary
> and probably not of wide interest.
>
> The early part of the trip worked out of Dar es Salaam. We stayed at a
> hostel called the TEC Center.
>
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/Tanzania/i-BNcWZNq>
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> The college hosts Benedictine sisters from two sister monasteries in the
> south-west part of the country. The most recent graduate, with a masters
> degree, realized that although public education is free in Tanzania it
> doesn’t include disabled students. She set about raising funds to build a
> school to help them. An early stop on our trip was to visit the site of the
> new school and to deliver a bag she hadn’t been able to bring back with her.
>
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/Tanzania/i-T4mWGBv>
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> Most of the money goes to make bricks, by hand, on site:
>
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/Tanzania/i-sqJXJL7>
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> Drying bricks:
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> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/Tanzania/i-nFNptTM>
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>
> Waiting to greet us, one of four sisters waits for us along a path to
> their dwelling:
>
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/Tanzania/i-xFZL944>
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> She didn’t speak a word of English, only Swahili, but she radiated
> friendship and while walking with this crutched was determined that we be
> comfortable and enjoy a meal with them:
>
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/Tanzania/i-vNBKQrq>
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> It takes a fast shutter speed to catch her standing still:
>
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/Tanzania/i-zQ8DNmj>
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>
> The sisters’ dwelling. It’s very simple. This is an iphone 6+ panorama:
>
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/Tanzania/i-RmqxWSH>
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> The kitchen. There is, of course, no utility connection here:
>
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/Tanzania/i-6PFGH8R>
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> Washing oranges:
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> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/Tanzania/i-J3cFdp9>
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>
> Two views of the same set of doors/windows. The first with the Fuji X-T1
> and it’s kit lens, the second with the Sony A7ii & 35mm Loxia:
> lens:
>
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/Tanzania/i-4NKQDhd>
>
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/Tanzania/i-4NKQDhd>
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> A student with Sister Gardenzia:
>
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/Tanzania/i-pnCnKcV>
>
>
> After our visit to the school site we went up the coast a bit more to the
> town of Bagamoyo site of a 13th century trading outpost.
>
> This image is from a building built much later, about the time the Germans
> were settling East Africa:
>
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/Tanzania/i-HHshLRB>
>
>
> From the ruins where coral was quarried and used as building materials. It
> has survived remarkably well:
>
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/Tanzania/i-qLtT4ns>
>
>
> And, finally, one of the characteristic doorways in the old, now ruined,
> part of Bagamoyo:
>
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/Tanzania/i-ntmMRpR>
>
>
> Thanks for looking. The images were made with either a Fuji X-T1 or Sony
> A7ii.
>
> Comments/critique/suggestions are most welcome.
>
> Adam
>
>
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