Bor is a town expanding rapidly at present. There are brick houses being built, even two to three story buildings. The roads are being overhauled completely and we expect to see tarmac for the first time in history of the Jonglei State. Just behind the road expansion I pass this area every day. The returnee wave has started for the referendum, some will settle in Bor, some will move to the rural areas. Meanwhile I keep seeing people living in their mix of Tin sheds, Tarpaulin shelters mixed in with their traditional Tokuls. A small vegetable garden next to the dike that has been built. The dike filled with water hyacints.
Looking at the buildings its quite interesting. The tokul is round have thatched roof and is quite coll due to the construction. Then because of Tin roofs the next mud house is square. The tin house is square as it suits the tin better overall. Finally there is a shelter with tarpaulins. The Tarpaulin shelter will later become mudded also.
Out of all of them it is still though the Tokul that is the most comfortable simply because it is cooler.
One of the Tokuls burned in Kaikuny village October 2010. A people with very few possessions ending up with even fewer.
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This is the road 1 km from our office. As can be seen the black cotton soil is saturated with water and with no drainage anywhere the road wont dry up for another 2 months or so. Assuming no more rain , that is... |
Colleagues putting up a mast at our new office site. The photo is taken with my Canon 5D Mark II with a 15-35mm Lens. I really enjoy the full frame sensor and the wide angle lens.
Shorter time than it takes a car to rust to bits. This truck cabin is located in our compound just outside my office. The tree is about 20 meters high overall.
Took this picture of a stack of bricks while the dark clouds was coming in. The interesting thing is that I would not have expected the grass to be so green as it was under the dark clouds but there is so much fresh grass there is a lot of variation in the green shades all over the village.
On the Swedish blogsite HDR Fotografen I found the solution to the hacking of my Canon 350D. I looked at the chdk site first but to me the explanation was not clear as to how to get the hacks to work. But as the files must correspond to the exact model and firmware of the camera I used the files from http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/350D and followed the instructions in Swedish from
http://stilbild.nu/fotograf/2009/09/hur-du-hackar-din-canon-eos-400d/ and now finally I can do bracketting which goes up to +- 6.7 Ev. not that i need that much but +- 3 would better than the +-2 I was limited to.
Will shoot some more pictures tomorrow to test out.
It was also fun to use ISO 3200.
Here is one of the first HDR (High Dynamic Range) trials I have done. Not a very good picture in general but got to start somewhere playing with the tools. Went out in our compound and shot AEB Bracketted pictures 0 +2 -2 with my Canon EOS 350D and then loaded the JPG's into Photomatix and Tone mapped it.
Original (well as the Camera would bring have taken the shot as optimal)
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