Nothing is as evocative of Africa as the landscape: the physical territory with lots of long shots, sunsets, sunrises, oceans and deserts. Why it should be so, evocative that is, is a bit of a mystery. But when I look at these photos, they cry out, “Africa!” and no other place on earth that I’ve been.
Red soil, red sand, champagne glass shaped trees form the setting for the furry creatures most people go there for: but the most evocative, single thing about the continent for me is the land, ancient and worn, new and untested, puzzling and yet strangely familiar. Hope you enjoy them!
Sunset over Serengeti waterhole
To be included in this “best-of” there should not be animals or people or at least not the focus of the shot. Getting hoards of people, usually kids, out of the photo is an issue for being included in this post but not for taking pictures. In Africa,taking photos, I hardly ever thought, “wait till that kid gets out of the shot”.
On the other hand, if there were a tubby tourist with a blue and cream flowered Hawaiian shirt and skin tight, orange Bermuda shorts wearing new silvered Nike’s on the feet, I’d have no trouble waiting. Anybody wearing cameras and/or snapping photos (yes, like I was) also meant I waited or pointed the lens in another direction.
Here’s what I found in the photo folder one year later thinking “landscapes, yes, they were striking”.
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