Pictures Taken By you...

[Demona]

Thank you!

[Madhuri]

The view of the house looks great, Claes. That will be a version of my dream house Its very pretty

[toni]

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The clouds are beautiful, but I wish I caught the sunset sooner for more light. Toni>>>>Neophyte photographer.
Let's take classes from Claes!

[Laindessiel]

Wow! It looked more professional when you posted it than when I saw it on the camera. Way to go, budding photog!

P.S.
She was waiting for birds to come fly past but the camera ran out of batteries when they finally came. Poor Toni.

[Laindessiel]

Great photos too Claes, as always.

[toni]

Wow! It looked more professional when you posted it than when I saw it on the camera. Way to go, budding photog!

wow Thanks! Yeah, I sorta noticed that too!

P.S.
She was waiting for birds to come fly past but the camera ran out of batteries when they finally came. Poor Toni.

Indeedy I am.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

The clouds are beautiful, but I wish I caught the sunset sooner for more light.

I'm not sure it would have improved that picture: It may have rendered those patterns in the sky impossible to see? We'll never know, of course.

Let's take classes from Claes!

I am not sure you need it: A very nice picture, that one. Still, I appreciate the comment

/Claes

Right then. Here we go with another batch fresh from the scanner:


Ewaso river, Shaba, Kenya.


Acacia Thorns: Those things are 3' long and easily strong enough to cause a flat tire (as we found out).


Sarova Shaba lounge, literally out in the middle of nowhere. Here, people are inside the fence,
and the wildlife (at least most of it) on the outside.


A gang of elephants a few miles from the lounge. The sounds they use for communication are amazing:
Even from this distance you could feel their very low pitched rumbling and humming through your body.


Oops! Closer... But we were to meet this one of these guys a far sight closer, inside the camp the next morning...
We were supposed to get up early and drive to the next lodge, but nobody woke us up. Why?
Well, all of a sudden I heard an infernal racket outsde and looked just in time to see two guards
running past the window casting nervous glances over their shoulders. Small wonder: Hot on their
heels came a thoroughly peeved tachyderm! That rather explained the missing wake up call. It turned
out that he had waded over the river during the night, ending up inside the camp. The guards had
then used their slingshots (The kind you could kill people with) on him to get him out again. Apparently
this was not appreciated, which also explained the chase and his foul temper. Later when we thought
the coast was clear, we grabbed our cases and set of towards the cars.

The coast was not clear! Not even close... Suddenly this still peeved bull came around a house
behind us at a very brisk clip, heading straight for us. We bolted and ran towards a small bridge and
made it across before he got too close... The bridge was too narrow for him, but he gave us a last
trumpet solo, just to show us who was the boss (as if we did not know that already).

All in all, some experience...


A reticulated giraffe.


A former buffalo.


The lodge bar in the evening.


A Samburu dancer at the lodge. Note the hight of that jump!

[Teeeeom]

The vault of the church of guadalupe in Morelia, Mexico.

International Chess Festival, Morelia, Mexico.

Cathedral

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Great pictures, Teeeeom More, please....

/Claes

[Niamh]

Toni i love your photo. it is so beautiful!

Claes, some more wonderful pictures! you must have had such a wonderful time in Africa! So thats what Acacia trees look like. They are always being mentioned in the no.1 ladies detective agency books. Wouldnt wont to fall on those thorns!

Teeeom, that celling is magnificant!

[Teeeeom]

a group of performance artists called Architecture in Movement

I forget the name of this church

Universidad Michoacana on strike.

these were all taken during my month-long stay in Morelia, Mexico while I was studying spanish.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Wouldnt wont to fall on those thorns!

I agree, they are very sharp and so hard that you could use them for nails! If I remember correctly, we had four blown tires during the trip, all of them caused by Acacia thorns. I can still remember our drivers comment: "I hate changing tires! (with considerable feeling)". You should have seen the way he looked at me when I told him that we have to change all four twice a year - Summer vs winter tires.

Universidad Michoacana on strike.

Interesting. Can you tell us the story behind that? and please keep the pictures coming.

/Claes

[vin1391]

ClaesGefvenberg I absolutes loved your pictures..wish I could go there...

Teeeeom I like the one witht he chess set the best

[Teeeeom]

Interesting. Can you tell us the story behind that? and please keep the pictures coming.

/Claes

The teachers' syndicate of the University was striking for better benefits, more vacation time, better treatment etc... This happens quite often with public universities in Mexico. (for example, when news came that the university was on strike again, people casually said "oh here they go again..."). Not that their strike was completely unjustified, it's just that many public entities in Mexico (schools mainly) expect the government to take care of them as if it were a socialist government, expecting aid where it normally wouldn't be given from a capatalistic government. Mexican politics are very complicated, and frankly I don't know enough to explain in detail.

Here are some more photos from a day trip I took to a Monarch butterfly sanctuary in El Rosario, Mexico. The Monarchs migrate every winter from the US and Canada to the mountains of Mexico where the altitude and vegetation is just right for their survival. Appoximately 150 million butterflies were at the sanctuary I visited. Luckily it was sunny the day I went, for if it's cloudy they tend to stay clumped in the trees.











This one stayed with me for awhile. They are very friendly creatures. Wandering around the meadow at the top of the mountain was very surreal. I took many photos, but after awhile I just had to sit down and admire the magic beauty around me. I've never experienced anything else like it.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

I took many photos, but after awhile I just had to sit down and admire the magic beauty around me.

Good move. We should all to that once in a while. And hey: Great pictures. I particularly like the close up. You seem to be using a good camera?

/Claes