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The dark clouds are a swarm(s) of young mozzies who having bred and mantured over the swamps on the otherside of Lake Malawi are now on the move, we thought was a smoke cloud, they came through our camp and the sky darkened......
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You in the landy our the merc? @DemocKot only ever went into Goma on a beer run when the volcano went south :thumbsup: the rest of the place was a no go as of 97 :(
edit are the landy. Those lake flys taste like shit and smell just as bad worse than sandflies but don’t bite but they do go every where when the swarm. The last thing you need in your beer is twenty of these little feckers:sick:
Land y, that was a transport freight truck, came across a few overlandering companies in the old Bedfords as was the fashion in those days, we could sail past them when they were stuck........ had a few passengers wanting to come with us instead.....
I’ll try dig out a few of mine. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X4qynLLZJak Not me but what we drove :thumbsup: bit better than the Bedford’s
There’s a few more on there part 1 & 2
Good stuff, we went from algiers south tuned right to Timbukutu and then back same way to In salah and to tamanrasset and continued south etcQuote:
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The Good Wife checking out the sunrise in Abraham’s bay
iPhone buy the way:)
That's funny. Namibia is my other favourite too.Quote:
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It took a while to bring in and wasn't so much a fight as a tug of war. I think it broke the water once but otherwise just pulled and pulled.
Compared to Mweya the hippo and croc pop wasn't huge actually. But it's a bit marshy around the banks so who knows what was lurking. It's a great area for elephants and giraffes. Saw a shoebill that day too. Which is very rare.
Wow a Shoebill think I saw two..but with over 600 different kinds of birds it gets to be a bit of a blur.
I heard that it was really special up there!
Went through Bawindi a few times on the back road to Queen Elizabeth Nat. Now that is a cool road Colobus monkeys in the trees chimps and loads of other game. Like something out of the jungle book. Tough drive though and you would get smashed tsetse fly. Definitely a day to wear white. Mind you you would look like a terracotta pot at the other end:XD: @YosemiteSam
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Lunch time Mallorca my boats the little black one in the corner:thumbsup:
All from a calendar I did for 2019. Was a fun project called piers of Waiheke.
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Very good Nga
Nice use of the light and shadows @Nga what camera and lenses are you using if you don’t mind me asking?
A winters day on the way to the Ramsay Glacier
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View near the Ramsay Glacier
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I have a Nikon D850, 20mm 1.8, 16-35 F4, 70-200 FL 2.8, 24-70, 105 Macro, 50mm 1.8 and an 85 1.4, most of my landscapes I use a 20mm or 16-35 with ND filters and very long exposures mostly in dark catching the early light.Quote:
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incoming storm Waiheke.
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Some wildlife photos from 2015, over at the neighbour's place, one from each State and Territory apart from ACT.
Blue tongues, WA
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Dingo, NT
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Perentie, SA
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Saltwater croc, QLD
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Carpet python, NSW
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Echidna, TAS
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Brumbie stallion, VIC
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And from the best part of Australia (New Zealand of course), a Rakaia hare, mid-August.
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Some recent ones...
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...17e7f8c8_b.jpgDSC_8805 by Ben, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...93bde735_b.jpgDSC_8436 by Ben, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...29a74a02_o.jpgTrusty Steed by Ben, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...068d97ac_o.jpgLivingstone Mountains at dusk by Ben, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...efe39654_o.jpgAcheron Lakes by Ben, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/7876/4...109b92aa_o.jpgWaikaia Panorama by Ben, on Flickr
@GravelBen did the Escort miss the tree.Looks like it was a heart in the mouth moment.
@ghosts yip was all good, tight slowish corner going around the tree so probably looks a bit more risky than it was. Good committed driving though, here it is a moment later:Quote:
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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...05881984_o.jpgDSC_8442 by Ben, on Flickr
This butterfly came around today so took a couple of photos
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I was reminded of this photo today when we took our rubbish to the tip. Waste not, want not my old Grandma used to say, and at the tip one of the workers was rescuing another old Briggs & Stratton and some roofing steel.
This is the remains of a bus, crashed badly into a tree, on a road in the far north of Mozambique, 2000. This was still pretty much out there in those days, very few Europeans around. There was a deep fear of them in the minds of the locals, after the Frelimo vs Renamo war, when the only white people the locals saw were mercenaries and Cold War special forces nasty bastards. You couldn't stray off the tar seal (thank you, Chinese) due to the real risk of losing your legs to a land mine.
As you can see, nothing was wasted from the remains of this bus. The steel was used as roofing on shacks, and the engine and drive train mechanicals recycled into whatever would take them. You do what you need to do up there, to survive. No Bunnings or ITM.
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So nothing special photographically, just a reminder to me of how much we take for granted.
i think you will know him ...https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...8beee3a3e8.jpg
two month ago in your beautiful landhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...e22c3827bf.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...f021b45509.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...fa9d132d6e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...9d161a673b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...5c98521124.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...44765b0880.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...92ce42eaea.jpg
last week on the way to italy ...https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...2fbd8b4288.jpg
One of 8 Keas that annoyed me this last week. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...70a9e1404e.jpg
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'petrol head' (ambrotype 8x10)
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Sleepless in Perth. (Fuji FP100-C 4x5)
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this one was a fluke,taken left handed as walked in with rifle in right hand incase he got up
VERY proud of it.
unfortunately as camera was set on low resolution it cant be enlarged much before gets grainy.
May have posted this before, but I make no apologies
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He and I were talking about that trip a few days back, He was asking when we could head back there.Quote:
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This photo I remember painfully. Was just starting the back cut on this old beast when I got stung by a wasp nest I had obviously disturbed..couldn't stop cutting then!
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STIHL a good buy��Quote:
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Looks like a mission to sharpenQuote:
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