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Subject: [Leica] Africa continued
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:16:11 +0930
References: <x2iee8fa51c1004262208w205faf74y8c0d3929fa156907@mail.gmail.com> <t2reb6799211004262254v12c80eeeq7cc5a473955157e2@mail.gmail.com>

Just the name of that particular place.  They sold nyama, inhuku and
nyemba sadza:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadza

Marty

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> 
wrote:
> WHat's Hi-Ko Take Away?
>
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Back to the Africa shots.
>>
>> In Namibia, many roadside stalls sell little souvenirs. ?This:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img212a.jpg.html
>> was a Herero one.
>>
>> In Outjo, I had a conversation with a Himba woman that culminated in
>> me taking some photos in return for a water bottle. ?This is one shot
>> where the bokeh of the 35 Summilux asph disturbs me:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img227a.jpg.html
>> I really don't like the way the lines in the background double up.
>>
>> In Swakopmund I saw an unusual giraffe:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img479a.jpg.html
>>
>> The stone crosses at Cape Cross:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img507a.jpg.html
>> were erected by Portuguese settlers in the 16th century. ?The senorita
>> is of a newer vintage.
>>
>> In the house where I grew up there was a chair called "the chair that
>> nobody sits on". ?In the laundromat in Swakopmund there was a nice
>> chair:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img716a.jpg.html
>> when I asked the proprietress about it she reported no one sits in
>> that chair, but not because of bad luck or some other reason I thought
>> might have been likely but because it was very uncomfortable.
>> Sometimes parsimony reigns.
>>
>> Marty
>>
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