Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Bob. I never thought I would go either and I loved it. Marty On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Robert D. Baron <rbaron at concentric.net> wrote: > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >