somewhere in Uganda.
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A few portraits from Lwala Community Alliance in Kenya
While I was on the road I posted a portrait of a dude I met at Lwala, which was our first stop on the DIG trip I took in December. I took several other portraits of people from the participating groups and thought I’d take a second to post a couple of them. I shot 4×5 as well but still haven’t gotten around to processing that mess. One day soon (he says hopefully)!
and Aluice again for good measure
commentLady walking
Lady walking Great Rift Valley (Kenya) as seen from our passing car.
Aerosmith
Aerosmith
Bye, Africa!
I’ve had a blast here in Kenya and up in Uganda, and I was most pleased to have the opportunity to return. So many photos I’m proud of from this trip. I look forward to finding a way to present it publicly in the future, though I’m never sure quite how to do that.
For now though, I’m super ready to get home.
Bye, Africa!
Paul in a video semi-poptvop
I’m not sure how this image should be categorized in the hierarchy of POPTPOPs, but it’s a picture of my camera taking video of Paul, one of the main people we connected with in Uganda. I guess it’s technically a poCtVop, which I’m not sure even counts. BUT WHATEVER HERE IT IS.
I gave video a go this trip to Africa and for once I’m excited about it—for two reasons. The big one is that I’ll be passing off the video and audio files (as well as the photos) to another team who will create something out of them. It has always been the crafting of the story that has intimidated me about video because I just don’t think like that by default. But knowing what I shot and seeing how they piece it all together I think will be a stepping stone for me to start to make my brain start to accept the fact that people want video (blah blah blah! business!). Secondably, I’m excited about the video stuff because the light pretty much everywhere we’ve been has been insanely pretty. The above photo is an example of everything just being pretty naturally. It’s Paul under a jackfruit tree back in their farm land. Simple as that.
Time to go work some more. More later!
Also, this happened tonight
This happened tonight. Sarah on the baggage scale in Entebbe airport. She was encouraged by the dude on the left, who insisted the scale was quite accurate. Sarah and Cat were both skeptical.
Kototo Peter
We had a quite jaunt to Uganda the last few days and I got to see old friends. Peter was around last time working with Patrick and I was pleased to see him still around. His first name (Kototo) means “Forever young” and it seems he’s fulfilled his end of the bargain. This dude is 70 years old. He had some health issues a while back but was apparently pretty immediately back in action working on a billion new projects. I took way too many photos of him this time, so much so that it was a joke by the end of the trip.
Here he is from the last trip
Another weird garden shot for Winslow
Another weird garden shot for Winslow.
Collin talkin’ agriculture
We are in Uganda now and that gave me a chance to check in on some people I met last time here. I was expecting everyone to have changed radically and not to recognize anyone there, not to mention them remembering my previous visit. But to my surprise everyone looked basically like themselves and they knew who I was. Cool.
I was most impressed during my chat with Collin and Maureen about agricultural concepts and market demand and other junk I have no business speaking to. They’ve really learned a ton, not only about how the farm works, but the larger picture about what drives different crop demands and subsistence versus industrial farming.
