Archive for 'Africa'
Buried
Posted on April 26, 2010 by Barak in Africa | No Comments
Northern Kenya. 11pm. No road. No cell coverage. No help. A historic event with a full tale that can really only be captured by the imagination. I’d put words to it, but it wouldn’t do it justice.
Dormans
Posted on April 24, 2010 by Barak in Africa | No Comments
My favorite coffee in Kenya. This was captured in two passes and processed in high dynamic range and several filters – all on my iphone. Not bad.
Elephant Herds
Posted on September 12, 2009 by Barak in Africa | No Comments
The Chobe National Park, Botswana is one of the premier parks in Southern Africa. Dry season, although not picturesque, affords incredible opportunities to see wildlife who flock to the Zambezi river to drink and cool off. Today’s expedition brought us close to nearly 250 elephants along the water’s edge; among them new-borns and adolescents.
I Was Here
Posted on September 11, 2009 by Barak in Africa | No Comments
Another flag in the sand so I can say “I was here”. Oh, and yes, that is a 360ft drop 18 inches to my right.
Time Lapse
Posted on September 11, 2009 by Barak in Africa | No Comments
In dry season, the flow volume over Victoria Falls recedes significantly, revealing pools of water carved out in the basalt river bottom. In some cases, these pools are cut at the extreme edge of the falls, allowing swimmers to peer over the 300 ft + precipice to the gorge below [note: not for the faint of heart]. Here Codie launches off a 15 ft ledge into “Devil’s Pool” which I caught in a time-lapse shot.
Victoria Falls
Posted on September 11, 2009 by Barak in Africa | No Comments
Here’s a few clips from Wikipedia on the falls: Victoria falls is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. David Livingstone, the Scottish explorer, is believed to have been the first European to view the Victoria Falls. While it is neither the highest nor the widest waterfall in the world, it is claimed to be the largest. This claim is based on a width of 1,708 metres (5,600 ft)and height of 108 meters (360 ft), forming the largest sheet of falling water in the world. The recent geological history of Victoria Falls can be seen in the form of the gorges below the falls. The basalt plateau over which the Upper Zambezi flows has many large cracks filled with weaker sandstone.Over at least 100,000 years, the falls have been receding upstream through the Batoka Gorges, eroding the sandstone-filled cracks to form the gorges. The falls have already started cutting back the next major gorge, at the dip in one side of the “Devil’s Cataract” (also known as “Leaping Waters”) section of the falls.
Respite
Posted on September 11, 2009 by Barak in Africa | No Comments
Debriefing at the Zambezi Sun resort in Livingstone, Zambia – named after the famous explorer and missionary who was the first European to see Victoria Falls, now named among the top Natural Wonders of the World. Resort hotels are not the usual fair of my frequent visits to the Continent, however, when taking visitors unused to the rigors imposed by culture and rough living, they provide a necessary respite and allow us to debrief amid hot showers and familiar food.
Community Training
Posted on September 09, 2009 by Barak in Africa | No Comments
There are simple things we take for granted, and things we are taught from a young age that we never even think about. Here, community members have been taught basic things about hygiene and how diseases are transmitted – ideas we consider common sense, but in terms of the global majority, actually aren’t all that common. In a place where families expect to lose at least one or two children to sickness, these people for the first time understand how to keep themselves healthy. This elderly gentleman is repeating back a portion of the lesson on disease transmission. When he finished, there was applause.
