Kids in Africa, Uganda

I just love this picture. I cant describe exactly why. Ofcourse my son is in the picture so that is one reason but I keep coming back to the picture because of the colors, the raw brick with the mortar, the old wooden door and the curtain in the door. This picture was also taken with the Canon 350D and the Tamron 18 - 200 mm lens and in JPG.

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Taj Mahal, Agra

Took these pictures 2 years back in Agra. The camera was my Canon 350 with my Tamron 18 - 200 mm Zoomlens. Unfortunately I was not wise enough to have captured the pictures in RAW format thus this is reprocessed JPG files. Adobe Lightroom was used to clean the pictures up and resize to the blogs actual picturesize. While not perfect I do consider the result ok. There is however no comparasin with the pictures I now take with the Canon 5D MKII and the lenses I now use.

Taj Mahal is the most impressive building I have ever seen. Just coming through the gate and then walk up to the building was a real treat. I could have stayed there the whole day. We however arrived close to sunset which is an amazing time to see the place. The continous changes in color reflections on the building during the sunset is something I will never forget. 

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Dragonfly up close

Was out testing macro photography today. I was lucky as this dragonfly was actually sitting still and both the pictures are taken without a tripod.  The lens used is my 24 - 104 mm Canon EF L. I used manual focus.
The dragonfly was sitting on my chili plant just outside my door. I see them all the time but never really paid attention but seems I need to look even closer around here.

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Kids negotiating with the women for the sale of fish from the White Nile just outside Bor town, Jonglei State. The kids using a traditional tree-trunk canoe for the trips out on the river.

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Brick walls and Razorwire

The view from my guesthouse in Bor at night. South Sudan is preparing for a Referendum and there might be instability and clashes. The fence is though also good to keep the lions and jeopards out. We found paw prints a few weeks back...

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