I made a trip to Kenya in July 2004 to experience the wilderbeest migration. Although that was supposed to be the highlight of the trip, I found that every aspect of Kenya was equally captivating and wonderful to photograph. This is also my first safari with a SLR camera (my previous was in 1999 with a Pentax point-&-shoot in Namibia) and I am delighted to share some of the results here which were photographed over 8 days. There is also a separate gallery on the wildlife that I photographed during the safari which can be found here:
https://pbase.com/cecilialim/animals_kenya
I hope you'll enjoy the images here, and please feel free to leave me comments. I would be most interested to have some feedback on how I've handled the subjects here. Thanks for visiting, and enjoy!
Your Kenya galleries are off to a wonderful start, Celia. I think it is significant that you begin with human values, and not the spectacular wildlife, which is, by far, the more familiar theme of East Africa. Although there is the unavoidable sense of stagecraft here -- the Maasai and Samburu are brilliant performers and salesmen and women -- you have managed to go below the surface in a number of images to express a larger cultural truth: the sense of pride and history that still governs here.
