[Leica] Img: Bagamoyo and surroundings (updated with correct URLs)

[photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)]

Interesting to see, Adam. I particularly enjoyed the ones of the 
brick-making.

Cheers,
Nathan

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> On 24 Aug 2015, at 19:45, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> This is an update post with the correct URLs. I had been in SmugMug?s 
> ?edit? mode when I took the image info. Won?t do that again?at least not 
> today.
> 
> 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/Travel/Tanzania/i-BNcWZNq/A>
> 
> 
> 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/Travel/Tanzania/i-T4mWGBv/A>
> 
> 
> Most of the money goes to make bricks, by hand, on site:
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/Tanzania/i-sqJXJL7/A>
> 
> 
> Drying bricks:
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/Tanzania/i-nFNptTM/A>
> 
> 
> Waiting to greet us, one of four sisters waits for us along a path to 
> their dwelling:
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/Tanzania/i-xFZL944>
> 
> 
> 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/Travel/Tanzania/i-vNBKQrq/A>
> 
> 
> It takes a fast shutter speed to catch her standing still:
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/Tanzania/i-zQ8DNmj/A>
> 
> 
> The sisters? dwelling. It?s very simple. This is an iphone 6+ panorama:
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/Tanzania/i-RmqxWSH/A>
> 
> 
> The kitchen. There is, of course, no utility connection here:
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/Tanzania/i-6PFGH8R/A>
> 
> 
> Washing oranges:
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/Tanzania/i-J3cFdp9/A>
> 
> 
> 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/Travel/Tanzania/i-4NKQDhd/A>
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/Tanzania/i-b3tQnWg/A>
> 
> 
> A student with Sister Gardenzia:
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/Tanzania/i-pnCnKcV/A>
> 
> 
> 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/Travel/Tanzania/i-HHshLRB/A>
> 
> 
> From the ruins where coral was quarried and used as building materials. It 
> has survived remarkably well:
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/Tanzania/i-qLtT4ns/A>
> 
> 
> And, finally, one of the characteristic doorways in the old, now ruined, 
> part of Bagamoyo:
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/Tanzania/i-ntmMRpR/A>
> 
> 
> 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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