I was in South Africa when he died, and had visited Robben Island the week before. Moved us both to tears.
The genuine outpouring of grief at his death was unbelievable.
Wouldn't get anything like it for our leader ...
Bee x
the man Thatcher said was a "terrorist" and also said " anyone who thinks the ANC will ever rule South Africa is living in cloud cuckoo land" Who does history remember more fondly I wonder?
Yes, Nelson Mandela's cell. I wasn't sure I wanted to go to Robben Island, seemed a bit voyeuristic somehow, but it was a deeply moving experience, especially being taken around by other ex inmates.
Seemed to get a lot of grit in my eye that day.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Wow, you did well to get the focus so sharp. Congratulations. 🙂
The wonders of modern digital cameras & good lenses! A combination of autofocus, image stabilisation & burst shooting. I must have taken about 10 frames in this 'burst' and only got this one pin-sharp.
@VictorMeldrew - what an amazing photograph. They are regular visitors here but whilst I can get really close to them I have never been able to take such a beautiful, detailed photograph.
Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
I'm going to use this an chance to get out old prints and choose which to scan. I don't have a loft full of photos, like some people, but I do have a whole cupboard of photo boxes. They are doing nothing there. I don't look at them, so it's time to take action.
I miss that element of surprise we used to get when getting prints back from the chemist (in antediluvian days). There was a magic in using an analogue camera when we had no real idea what image we had captured. No photoshop (for average mortals). No 300 safety shots of the same flower, just to make sure. There was luck and seredipity in it. Oh, the many times I walked back from Boots shrieking and giggling with school friends, clutching the slightly warm envelops of prints and rifling though the pictures for the most embarrassing shot for hoots.
Technically it's a terrible photo, in my defense it was excessively windy on the day I took this so I really couldn't change much to lose the background. (NIKON D3200 18mm)
I really doubt anyone can get what this orchid is, it only grows in one place in the entire world and I happen to live next to it. We spent quite a while looking for the orchid, we found several pyramidals, marsh orchids, and a few bee orchids and then my OH who was with us but had no idea what he was looking for went, is this it.. he had found over 40 of them this was one of the largest specimens. So while the photo is of no merit it reminds me of the only time I have gone walking in a bog and had the ground under me be so dry as to be crispy.
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I was in South Africa when he died, and had visited Robben Island the week before. Moved us both to tears.
The genuine outpouring of grief at his death was unbelievable.
Wouldn't get anything like it for our leader ...
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
" anyone who thinks the ANC will ever rule South Africa is living in cloud cuckoo land"
Who does history remember more fondly I wonder?
This was my pet Hummingbird Hawkmoth. Ok maybe I'm exaggerating a little but we were best friends for about 5 seconds. That's all the time you get.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I wasn't sure I wanted to go to Robben Island, seemed a bit voyeuristic somehow, but it was a deeply moving experience, especially being taken around by other ex inmates.
Seemed to get a lot of grit in my eye that day.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Thanks @Uff. I'd forgotten this one until @Fire set me off searching through 'old' photos. I used to be really keen at one time.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border