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Photographing Victoria Falls
So you go to one of the most spectacular views in the world and you figure the photography is going to be child’s play – just hold the camera up in the right general direction and shoot. Not so in Victoria Falls. This is not for the lack of spots and sights. It’s just impossible…
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Namibia: Strange Birds
Namibia has a number of different types of hornbills – some fairly common, but some a bit rarer. Â This fellow below – a southern ground hornbill, was spotted casually walking through the forest toward the road we were on, with about 5-6 of his colleagues / family. Â About the size of a small wild turkey,…
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Sony’s NEX-EA50 NXCam – interchangeable lens camcorder
This just-released promotional video highlights Sony’s latest interchangeable-lens video camcorder. Once you get beyond the nonstandard English, it’s SHWEEET! It’s due out in October, and unlike the typical still camera that “also takes good video” this is a professional grade camcorder that “also takes good stills”. It’s got a 16 MP APS-C CMOS sensor along…
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Scenes from the Caprivi: Nkasa Lupala Tented Lodge
There’s this cool new tent lodge “in the middle of nowhere” up in the Caprivi. So named because it sits just along the edge of the national park of the same name (formerly known as Mamili), this cluster of luxury raised tents sits in the middle of the Kwando-Linyanti river system, a labyrinth of narrow…
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Caprivi is for the Birds
Caprivi is that northeasternmost region in Namibia that looks so odd on a map. I’m sure there is a really interesting historical reason dating from the colonial days for Caprivi being part of Namibia. But for now it just sticks out there, too thin to really even qualify as a panhandle. It borders Angola, Zambia,…