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A tremendous yellow and orange sunset.

Bush Sunset

Bush Sunset A tremendous sunset over open land somewhere in the bush. Actually I have no clue when or where this was taken. I believe it was around 1987 on a plot we were living on at the edge of Greendale, in Harare, Zimbabwe. It may well have been taken in Dundee, South Africa around 1990, while we were living there. Nevertheless it remains a…

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A Mana Pools Elephant stretching for food high in a tree.

Mana Pools Elephant Stretching for food

Mana Elephant Reaching for Food A common sight at Mana Pools is an elephant stretching into a tree for food. Mana Pools is iconic for its open forests of Acacia Albida Trees (Faidherbia albida, or Apple Ring Acacia), which the elephant love to eat. It’s not uncommon to see an elephant standing on its hind legs to reach the fruit. The Apple Ring name comes…

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Golden morning light on a herd of Impala

Hwange Impala Herd in Morning Light

Out for an early morning game drive. Here is a herd of Impala caught in beautiful golden morning light, highlighting their colours, but also showing their camouflage ability. Actually we didn’t want to cook breakfast so we took a drive to nearby Robins Camp to have breakfast in the restaurant there, Crossing a low bridge we came across this herd of Impala in the riverbed.…

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Back in the day we took photos on film. 35mm in my case. As an older man I now have a stack of transparencies and negatives. The Memories Project is aimed at scanning and publishing a good selection of those film images.

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