[Leica] Africa - The Okavango Delta

[rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron)]

Interesting places, people, photos and words.

Takes me someplace I am unlikely to go.

Thanks.

--Bob

==On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> 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
>
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