ARCHIVE 132 – UNKNOWN SUNRISE

 

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Sunrise, somewhere in Kenya, probably in the late 1970s – how’s that for vague?

An Agfa colour slide with absolutely no information on it. Am I sure its a sunrise? I think so – it has that clean, clear look – but who knows? And where is it taking place? Well, somewhere very flat – the bush country of Tsavo maybe, or perhaps the Maasai Mara grasslands? 

(March 2015 update:  looking at the enlarged version of this, which I haven’t done before,  I can see what looks like a huge, dark mountain side rising up into dark cloud at bottom right.  And just as this slope rises out of the mist, there is a faint little pimple, which could well be a small volcanic cone – a volcanolet, if you like.  All of which suggests to me that this may show the lower slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain – in which case this was taken in the Amboseli Game Reserve or in Tsavo).

But such details, while adding interest and maybe value, are peripheral. I like it as an image – and here it is. How I miss those huge skies!

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OM-1 with 28mm Zuiko; Agfa CT18 colour slide, rated at 64 ISO.

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