March 7, 2004
Ethiopia
One of the things that prompted me to start scanning photos was the recent string of articles from BBC News talking about Ethiopia (Ethiopians 'rely on food imports', Fears over Ethiopian resettlement, Soldiers demobilised in Eritrea). In 1999 I had the amazing luck to visit Ethopia to run a week-long course on HTML for the British Council, as part of a continuing skills trading programme between UEA and Addis Ababa University. The photos from that trip have languished in a drawer for far too long.
I've just scanned them all, and over the next couple of days I'll go through them and add what details I can remember from the trip before uploading them. Until then, I've uploaded my favourite photo of the lot: Addis Ababa at dawn. My poor photography skills (and old scanner) don't do it justice: the smell of wood smoke, the sharp morning air that already carries a hint of the day's heat, and the call to prayers echoing over the city.
Posted by savs at March 7, 2004 2:23 AMWow, that's a great photo! Tends to imply your photography skills are not as ropey as you would have the world believe! Might be worth trying to encode that as a jpeg; it may actually make the quality better by smoothing out some of the rough (scanner-induced) edges. Can I have a copy of that at full resolution? :)
Posted by: Paul Russell at March 7, 2004 9:24 AMOk, jpg version there. Not sure it actually makes much difference, but heck, it's a smaller file so I'm saving on bandwidth costs. Copies available priced at one pint per copy ;-)
Posted by: Andrew Savory at March 7, 2004 1:40 PM