It’s amazing what people carry on their heads here! I noticed they start training the girls quite early with lighter loads. They actually put a little ring on their heads (sort of like a bean bag) that sort of flattens out the surface area so they can put anything on top. We went out to watch the sunset and saw these ladies walking miles back to their homes across the sand. It makes you wonder why people in the modern West complain about doing the laundry.

Doing Laundry in Zimbabwe

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• Date Taken2019-09-23 03:00:14
• CameraILCE-6400
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/800
• Aperture6.3
• ISO500
• Focal Length600.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

Rene is definitely a climber and a jumper. In Africa, if a baboon could climb it, then he was pretty sure he could too. It made me quite nervous, actually… I’m not personally scared of heights, but I mostly don’t want to watch other people do that stuff… especially when they are your friends!

Rene Jumping Over Jonatas in Zimbabwe

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• Date Taken2019-09-24 10:21:23
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/640
• Aperture4
• ISO160
• Focal Length39.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

On the way here, we had this strange female pilot. It was a little Cessna plane and I was sitting up where the co-pilot sits. She was getting up into the plane (it’s a long way up) and I offered her my hand to give her a boost up. She kind of snapped at me and said, “I’m not THAT old!” I was thinking… jeez lady, just being nice. But, she was at least cool enough to tilt the plane right and left as we went over the falls so we could get this God’s eye view.

Victoria Falls from Above

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• Date Taken2019-09-27 05:36:17
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/1000
• Aperture8
• ISO100
• Focal Length184.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

Look how cool all these kids are! I spent the day at a special village festival in a remote part of Zimbabwe. Wow these kids were absolutely amazing. They were some of the happiest kids I’ve ever met. They are all very poor (by any standard), they have no tech, they have no healthcare, they have no YouTube… despite all that, they were the most joyous kids I’ve ever seen. It’s kind of hard to tell in this particular photo because there was a rather “serious” part of the festival so the mood was complex.

Beautiful Children in Zimbabwe

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• Date Taken2019-09-22 05:27:07
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/320
• Aperture4
• ISO160
• Focal Length105.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

This is one of my favorite random shots from Zimbabwe. Check out this mother and son while they are walking to the big festival. I loved her white outfit and the shape of the lines across her body as they matched with her son. I’m not sure why she was wearing white; I should have asked her! 99% of everyone else at the festival was dressed in all kinds of fanciful colors.

Walking to the festival in Zimbabwe

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• Date Taken2019-09-22 02:57:56
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/320
• Aperture4
• ISO50
• Focal Length57.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

Right on the border of Zambia is the amazing Victoria Falls. It’s considered the “biggest” in the world because it has the widest “sheet” of falling water in the world. The best time to visit it is actually towards the end of the year in the “low season” because when there is maximum water flow, there is so much mist that you can’t even see the waterfall!

The Massive Victoria Falls

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• Date Taken2019-09-28 03:42:23
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/320
• Aperture13
• ISO100
• Focal Length45.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

While in Zimbabwe, our workshop (come to my New Zealand one!!) stopped under a tree for about two hours of silence. We were waiting for elephants to come by one of the last watering holes in the dry season. If you’re a regular reader of the blog, you know that elephants are my favorite animal! Well, to be specific, it’s my favorite mammal. My favorite water-based animal is a type of cephalopod is the cuttlefish, but they are harder to photograph.

Elephants at the Last Watering Hole

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• Date Taken2019-07-22 02:01:07
• CameraILCE-6400
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/2000
• Aperture5.6
• ISO400
• Focal Length200.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

What an amazing day we had at the little village festival. There were about 100 kids there and we had the best time hanging out with them. They were totally fascinated by us and our cameras… they probably thought we were total freaks! These were some of the happiest and most curious kids I’ve ever seen… I think hanging out with children in Africa might just be even better than hanging out with the animals!

Boy in Zimbabwe

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• Date Taken2019-09-22 05:42:55
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/160
• Aperture4
• ISO160
• Focal Length24.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias