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Subject: [Leica] Africa - into Zimbabwe
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:42:48 +0930
References: <AANLkTinfY9SG0EmQB6QMw=i3pJYsk029hyi=APFapY8i@mail.gmail.com> <DFFF5DEE-5995-49D3-9AEB-4803FD2DB398@frozenlight.eu>

Thanks Nathan, it's among mine too.  It was very hard to hold still
when I'd been drinking Coca-Cola all morning (I think they make it
stronger in Africa) and I was worried that these ones would be blurry.

Marty

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
wrote:
> The portrait of the driver at the end is my favourite of this entire 
> series so far (including your previous postings).
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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>
> YNWA
>
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 17, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Marty Deveney wrote:
>
>> After we left the Okavango, we spent a day in Maun and then headed
>> into Zimbabwe. ?Bernie, the driver and I had struck up a good
>> coversational friendship by now, so I rode with him:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Zimbabwe/img146a.jpg.html
>>
>> We arrived in Victoria Falls town, the end of this part of the trip.
>> I hung around at our camp to help with the truck. ?A couple of bands
>> holding the exhaust pipe to the truck had broken, so we got them
>> welded at a workshop and repaired the fastenings. ?We changed the oil,
>> cleaned the engine and did some other minor repairs:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Zimbabwe/img549a.jpg.html
>>
>> And we had a drink afterwards. ?This is Bernie, the driver:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Zimbabwe/img555a.jpg.html
>>
>> MP, 50/2 Hexanon, yellow filter. ?Tri-X (first), Plus-X (other two), Xtol 
>> 1+3.
>>
>> Comments etc welcome.
>>
>> Marty
>>
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