Workshop and Afternoon Game Drive

Playing with the camera: a darter...

a lizard hanging around camp...

an unfriendly neighbour floating by the camp.

Three barn swallows chicks begging for food...

being fed my mom...

and the last one to leave.

Blacksmith lapwing.

Three hornbills.

Ground cuckoo

Tuesday, April 18^th.

This morning we had our first photography lesson. Anna (from Colombia) started with the basics of how photos are taken, and it wasn’t long before she started talking about RAW, aperture, ISO and shutter settings and I got lost. I felt like a beginner and was overwhelmed. It is always interesting as a teacher to realize this is often how students feel when learning about something new. She has three highly competent students: Bruce, Matt and Koert and three beginners, me and two young Dutch girls. She gave us a project to take photos of three subjects using different settings… it’s going to be a steep learning curve. After trying to complete the project, which I didn’t do well at, we had lunch. In the afternoon we had another 3-hour game drive through the reserve. We saw impala, giraffe, a couple of elephants and some birds. The weather was quite warm when we left and by the end when the sun went down, it was pretty cool, and a fleece was required. Shortly after returning we had dinner, and the power went off again. There is not enough electricity for the country, so they have rotating blackouts, they call it ‘loadsharing’ and it happens a couple of times a day. It was activity night. We all sat around a big table and one of the guides put a post it on our forehead with a name of a famous person on it. We were not allowed to look at it and could only ask yes or no questions for the people around us to answer. In this way we tried to work out who we were. I was Selena Williams, Bruce was Nelson Mandela, Matt was Kim Kardasian and Koert was Shakespeare. It was fun and killed the time before bed. We have to be up at 5:30 so we were all in bed by 9.