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Ethiopia, Worth Writing About.
This is a set of images from my recent trip to Ethiopia, and instead of trying to represent everywhere I went, I focused only on images I wanted to caption, ones I thought were worth making notes about. As I have traveled a fairly broad path, that changes over time. I look for things that provide exceptions, or image matter that "hooks" me, that I find myself taking over and over. I look for something out of order, or things that make me ask "why." I have also taken a step into some rather arbitrary camera techniques, mostly just to amuse myself and prevent boredom, but with some results I feel are justified my the circumstances of the exposure. -Tom
Multiple Thumbs Ups
Multiple Thumbs Ups

I was playing with muliple exposures on my camera, and was also using the dynamic range feature...

Bad Reputation
Bad Reputation

Vultures and Hyena both come when they toss out the kitchen compost at this lodge in the South....

Circle Cemetary
Circle Cemetary

On our way toward Bale Mountain area, not on a route I have been on before, we came across this...

Ghosted by Speed
Ghosted by Speed

I was experimenting with multiple exposures a lot of the trip. It seemed appropriate for images...

Torso Display
Torso Display

How clothes are displayed has always amused me. These human parts that are supposed to make them...

End of the Line
End of the Line

Near Bolga, Sidama, someone's trip came to an end. Oddy it was left right in the middle of the...

Unnatural
Unnatural

Some of the multiple exposures I was playing with resulted in rather subtle and hyperreal...

Stunning
Stunning

Is it only that light and clouds and the sun are so amazing when you travel, because it's simply...

Aricha Private Mill, Idido, Yirga Cheffe
Aricha Private Mill, Idido, Yirga Cheffe
Teddy's Private Mill
Teddy's Private Mill

Teddy is a player, exporting Ethiopian coffee, flush with cash, excited, and possibly running a...

Gelena Abaya
Gelena Abaya

Cooking some coffee in a back room at Gelena Abaya in Kochere, Yirgachefe. Welcome to the...

Private Mill, Kochere Yirga Cheffe
Private Mill, Kochere Yirga Cheffe

A private mill isn't what you might think. It's simply not a cooperative, and they are not...

Saturated Sleep
Saturated Sleep

The room for the mill manager at Gelena Abaya mill, in a rather nauseating turquoise tone.

Coffee Farmer, Kochere
Coffee Farmer, Kochere

One of thos photos of a person I will never see again, who is motivated perhaps only by the...

Iphoner
Iphoner

The iphone either has a focal plane shutter, or the digital equvalent. The result is that as the...

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