A contribution to this week’s photo challenge on the theme of Chaos. Taken just over a year ago on the morning the heavy rains arrived just as people were heading of to work. The ensuing torrents of water turned roads into rivers and chaos reigned (and rained!).
So far we have not had a repeat – the rains though probably now started have been overnight, but they are getting heavier – it’s only a matter of time before chaos reigns again.
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A contribution to this week’s photo challenge on the theme of Chaos. Taken just over a year ago on the morning the heavy rains arrived just as people were heading of to work. The ensuing torrents of water turned roads into rivers and chaos reigned (and rained!).
So far we have not had a repeat – the rains though probably now started have been overnight, but they are getting heavier – it’s only a matter of time before chaos reigns again.
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Tagged chaos, flood, postaday, rain, rainy season, weekly photo challenge
We are approaching the end of the dry season here and have the odd storm – but water still remains scarce away from the Lake. This summer we have had constructed a bird bath, comprising a wheel hub, pole and some metal prongs it resembles a hat stand but the bind lid sitting upon the prongs reveals it’s true purpose. It took several weeks to attract it’s first customers but is now in use by birds of all sizes including the Yellow-billed Black Kites which swoop in for a drink.
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Tagged bird, H2O, kite, postaday, water, weekly photo challenge
We are approaching the end of the dry season here and have the odd storm – but water still remains scarce away from the Lake. This summer we have had constructed a bird bath, comprising a wheel hub, pole and some metal prongs it resembles a hat stand but the bin lid sitting upon the prongs reveals it’s true purpose. It took several weeks to attract it’s first customers but is now in use by birds of all sizes including the Yellow-billed Black Kites which swoop in for a drink.
Posted in postaday, Tanzanian living, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wildlife
Tagged H2O, kite, postaday, water, weekly photo challenge
A submission to this week’s photo challenge :Look Up – looking up at this Fritillary from below – taken using the ‘selfie’ camera on the iPhone to get this unusual angle on this flower. I’ve shared this before but am happy to do again.
Taken at Hidcote Manor – Oxfordshire in April 2014
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Tagged Flower, look up, postaday, weekly photo chalkenge
A submission to this week’s photo challenge :Look Up – looking up to see the birdlife around us in Tanzania and across Africa.
Posted in Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Mwanza, postaday, Rwanda, Tanzania, Tanzanian living, Uganda, Weekly Photo Challenge, Zambia
Tagged birds, postaday, weekly photo challenge
A submission to this week’s photo challenge : opposites
The bee-eater stands out a vibrant green and blue against the drab brown background of the scrubland.
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Tagged postaday, weekly photo challenge
A submission to this week’s photo challenge: Partners this one focus on the birds seen in our garden – part of my bird a day in June series
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Tagged bird, partner, postaday, weekly photo challenge
This week’s photo challenge is on the theme of Spare in all it’s connotations.
As far as the first definition – this really does not apply – there are far too few Rhinos and certainly not additional to anything
The second definition applies in part to these amazing animals – simple grey colour and in it’s own sense elegantly designed. They are also extremely scarce in their landscape – so sparcely are they distributed having been hunted to near extinction.
The final definition is perhaps the most poignant -we should stop harming these creatures before it’s too late.
These photos taken from our trip to Uganda last year – not in the wild sadly but in a Zoo – one which seeks to bring ordinary Ugandans face to face with their own wildlife and to educate them on the threats to their wildlife. There are very few Rhinos left in East Africa where once 500,000 Rhinos existed there are now 29,000 or so. In Uganda the White Rhino was wiped out and is only now being re-introduced.
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Tagged postaday, Rhino, spare, weekly photo challenge
A final submission to this week’s photo challenge: Earth. If possible I like to get some snaps of the earth from the plane whenever I go flying – these were taken at various points on the journey from Qatar to London in 2013 at the end of my trip to Vietnam and Cambodia (the first half of the journey having taken place overnight). Pictures here from Qatar, Iraq, Turkey, Central Europe and UK (London)
Our recent trip to Rwanda took us right through this small country from the border to Kigali and Gisenyi and back again.
One of the most surprising things was the degree to which this tiny country has cultivated the earth from valley floor to mountain peak. Here is my second submission to this week’s photo challenge.
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This is my contribution to this weeks Weekly Photo Challenge :Earth.
Our earth is an amazing place So I thought I’d share some pictures of the fabulous places I have visited across this planet in recent years in Europe, Africa and Asia.
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Tagged Earth, postaday, weekly photo challenge
A third submission to this week’s photo challenge on the theme of Abstract, but could equally qualify for last week’s dinnertime photo challenge too.
Whilst waiting for dinner at a Pizza Restaurant on our last night in Kigali we messed around with exposure and movement resulting in some abstract family pics. We possibly love inked a little silly as we moved about but thankfully the restaurant was quiet. The pizza at Sole Luna was excellent, by the way.
A second submission to this week’s photo challenge on the theme of Abstract.
Taken on the return journey from Rwanda as we crossed the Busisi Ferry we were bombarded by tens of thousands of Lake Flies. These were swarming around the floodlights on the boats and at the suggestion of my son we took a long exposure picture of their flight paths.
Each insect illuminated by the beams and blurred into a mesh of patterns, almost fur like.
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Tagged abstract, postaday, weekly photo challenge
A response to this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Abstract
Wind Chime 
Broken Brickwork
Hibiscus Flower
A submission to this weeks photo challenge Dinnertime. With a little artistic license as these photos were taken at Breakfast – but the African Pied Kingfisher certainly enjoyed his fish ‘dinner’.
Taken at Mwanza Docks – on route to Rubondo Island February 2015.
A second Dinnertime a few months later at Wag Hill Lodge near Mwanza – this time a Swap Fly Catcher eating a Dragonfly for ‘dinner’.
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Tagged birds, Docks, postaday, Rubondo, Wag Hill, weekly photo challenge
Every so often we like to escape Mwanza and head out West along the lake to a restaurant called Papa’s. As well as a meal you get to see some wildlife with your dinner. Here from a selection of visits over the past 18 months, is my contribution to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Dinnertime
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Tagged Dinnertime, Lake Victoria, Papa's, postaday
Another submission to this week’s photo challenge.
Each New Year we towards the Future with hope and anticipation. No New Year was more anticipated than that of the new millennium which as far as we were concerned was Dec 31st 1999/Jan 1st 2000 (I know there is debate about whether it really should have been a year later!).
We travelled with the family to Penzance in Cornwall for a family celebration. This was early in the days of the Internet, before Social Media and Smartphones (we had one mobile phone between us and it was a Nokia 8210, on which the most advanced technology was texting!). We still used film in our cameras and played music on the newly invented CD or old fashioned tape/vinyl.
Looking to the future in 1999 we thought hopefully on the future – the Cold War was over and we had not imagined the horrors of 9/11 or 7/7 etc.
We were a family of three and lived in the UK – little did we anticipate that we would be living and working in Africa with two teenage children less than 15 years on.
Who know what the future holds – it is an unknown factor over which we have only a little control.
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Tagged Cornwall, future, millennium, postaday, UK, weekly photo challenge
These photos taken on Lake Kivu in Rwanda last week are a second submission to this week’s photo challenge: Future.
When we look at anything we are looking into the past as the light from the event, even an event like a lightning strike, takes time to reach our eyes. Yet we could also be observing our future – in this case the oncoming storm which hit just after we landed our boat.
More than any other country I have yet seen in Eastern or Central Africa, Rwanda and in particular Kigali is a city looking to its Future. This is as much as to be drawing a line under its past but the futuristic architecture of the centre of Kigali is a testament to the distance this country has come in 22 years and its vision of a different Rwanda. Here are a selection of photos from our visits last week. Here is my submission to this week’s photo challenge.
Graham has been to: Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Ethiopia, France, United Kingdom, Gibraltar, Gambia, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Kenya,Cambodia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malawi, Netherlands, Qatar, Rwanda, Slovenia, Slovakia, Senegal, Thailand, Turkey, Tanzania, Uganda, Vatican, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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