[Leica] IMG: Maloca

[lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)]

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
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