Gambia, 1986, digitalized

Excellente ***********

Obrigada Thierry

Don’t care of the horizon. It’s authentic and that’s important. Have a nice Sunday, Isabel !

Obrigada Ulrich, same wishes

No reason for any excuse, it is showing a day in the Gambian life

It was Gambia, but it is so alike... obrigada Luc

I discovered your title, changed it in my comment .....

Joli témoignage!!!!!!

Obrigada Nouchet, merci

La photo est dynamique, mais je ne pense pas qu'elle soit prise au Leica !?

Un de mes nikon, je ne sais même plus lequel. Digitalizé à partir d'une photo papier car malheureusement tous mes négatifs et quelques appareils ont été perdus dans une inondation en 1990. Heureusement une boite avec des tirages papier était au-dessus de la bibliotheque... c'est tout ce que j'ai pu sauver du passé.

Your reflections on living in The Gambia and Senegal made me think back about what one of my project officers in Senegal once told me about the very different concept of time in our respective cultures: "Europeans have clocks and watches; we have time."
A lovely image of Gambian river life, Isabel. It has not changed all that much in the rural areas. Just a couple of years ago, one of our local sustainable development projects in the North Bank included providing carts and donkeys so farmers could take their produce to market.

This is very true... and the clockwork way of life in Europe has always been difficult for me, in my south we are like Africans... we take our time.
In my job time was not a question of minutes, soit was fine with me.

35 years ago these people used to say: "we are sticky but not yet agressive". Hope this did not change either...

Like this very much Isabel. It’s a story. I love horses also and this lovely one us concentrating on the job with those ears and also a sweaty neck from the work. Hope there was plenty of rest and water and the end of the job.

I would have loved never to come back. But I found out I did not have the right place there, but neither anywhere, maybe only where I am, but it changed so much due to mass tourism that I really feel I don't fit in here too... fortunately Mother Nature saves me from sinking...

belle scène de vie très dynamique isabel, bon dimanche

Obrigada Annaig, pour toi aussi

excellent picture

Great capture into the lives of these people & we complain !!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Quite an experience for you Isabel & good on you !!!

Obrigada Marj, part of me stayed there...

Interesting picture and words Isabel, and something to think about, especially at Christmas time!

Should be all year round, Rosa... obrigada

I tilted my laptop. So, the horizon corrected! =D

But you could also call it as an intentional Dutch angle... One can feel the speed! =)

They were speeding and me too, well, my driver was !

So very, very interesting, and I understand. When you have spent time living with people who are poor and live lives so different to ours, it is very difficult to accept the empty materialism of western life. I agree fully...

''Empty materialism'' is a good term to use regarding today's values.. Diana'.. Having said that, I can't relate to the mind broadening and probably wonderful experience.. as Isabel has, because .....I have only ever known a material life..
Keep well.... and good wishes to you.. from > Dj.

Indeed Diana. I was born very poor, we were as poor as those people. I was very good at school and therefore climbed in professional life, but my youth friends kept being my best friends and even if I have tasted the best money can buy... I still appreciate what is simple, am proud of my ones and live without showing off.

It is quite interesting coming across these later uploads from members.. while the load feature is down... // Keep well Isabel.... and Cheers from ...> David J.

Obrigada David, as per your answer to Diana too. Today grey sky... not very cold, 17ºC, but dull !

Loved seeing this, it's good to experience another culture.

Obrigada Fraggs

l' essentiel dans cette photo , n' est pas la technique ( aujourd'hui peut-être prendrais tu le côté technique de la composition , plus à coeur ) , mais l' ambiance, l' émotion , l' atmosphère , et aussi l' aspect documentaire .

Pris d'un jeep en mouvement... pas facile de faire mieux. Digitalizé à partir d'un vieux tirage papier (negatifs perdus dans un inondation), donc pas grande netteté...

Glad you were able to save this image from an old paper print. Wonderful reminder of those few years that left such a lasting impression on your life Isabel!

Enjoy The Little Things - Stay Well - Treasure Your Memories

Obrigada Chris, most important memories are in my memory...

good!
forget about that horizon...... ;-)

Obrigada Markus

My Father had a horse... he was so poor that he fed it less and less each day.. he eventually got it down and down to eating nothing at all... but then it died.

Oh...

It was one of my silly jokes Isabel.... sorry...

It was a little too much, I mean not the fact that you joked but the conclusion ... LOL

A nice slice-o-life image

Awesome shot! Stay well!

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Obrigada William

Lovely capture of Africa

Obrigada Gillian

beautiful scene and what a splendid experience, I understand the "after" feelings ...

Obrigada Nora, not everyone can...

merci pour ce voyage dans le temps.

Obrigada Ghislaine

The horizon doesn't matter, what does is that you've managed to save this image. It reminds me of life in some countries I've visited: as Diana noted, the contrast with our empty materialist western lifestyle does indeed leave indelible images.

It makes us feel how unimportant some things are...
Obrigada George

Lovely capture