Random photo posts.

[Cossie]

There are some photos I have taken over the years that I would like to show, early ones have been converted from slides, I'm still going through the ones using negatives. The boss will probably shoot me, but if she doesn't know, I'll be safe!
First one in Tanzania 1989, the next three were at an animal refuge in the former Zaire run by a couple from Europe, I'm thinking it was Lubutu, but can't remember for sure.



Feel free to add your own adhoc photos!

 

[Cossie]

How about some Indian ones? All from '82/83

Wedding Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay (as it was then),


Calangute market in Goa with obligatory hippies.



Seen something like this one before!



Behind the Taj across the river.

 

[Cossie]

Few more these are from Mauritius in '89. Hope to get back there one day, real mix of people. You can really see the French influence in the architecture.

 

[Cossie]

Wish i had a digital camera back then!

Nairobi Cricket club, very 'english'. Both cricket and rugby were being played.



Commonwealth War Graves Cemetary in Kisumu where one of my uncles is buried. RAAF aircraft training accident in 1942, aged 23.

 

[Cossie]

First game park, Tsavo East. But first we have to get out of a car park in Nairobi where we were bogged. Not a great start to a 5 month trans Africa trip. Pulled out by another overland company, they were using ex German army MAN trucks, we were in an ex British army Bedford.





What are you looking at?

 

[ozmille]

interesting pictures, I need to have a look through my old slide projection collecion

 

[Cossie]

Seen something!

Hmmm food!
A short chase ensued, but the cheetahs gave up.

 

[Cossie]

Giraffes, our favourite animals.

 

[vetrade]

Cossie, I'm taking the liberty of hijacking your thread to ask a question. Hope you don't mind.
I, too, have been going through old negatives and slides and scanning them onto a memory card and then into my desktop. Have used a "Wolverine, SNaP - 20MP" scanner. The problem I have is that when I went to get them printed at Officeworks most of the pics scanned from negatives came out either way too green or way too yellow. I have tried editing a selection of them in Lightroom but the results are still disappointing. The negatives affected come from a variety of batches taken over about 10 years.
The prints done from slides and some original photos have come out OK.
Has anyone got any clues as to a fix?

 

[Cossie]

Cossie, I'm taking the liberty of hijacking your thread to ask a question. Hope you don't mind.
I, too, have been going through old negatives and slides and scanning them onto a memory card and then into my desktop. Have used a "Wolverine, SNaP - 20MP" scanner. The problem I have is that when I went to get them printed at Officeworks most of the pics scanned from negatives came out either way too green or way too yellow. I have tried editing a selection of them in Lightroom but the results are still disappointing. The negatives affected come from a variety of batches taken over about 10 years.
The prints done from slides and some original photos have come out OK.
Has anyone got any clues as to a fix?

I bought a powerslide 3600 about 5 years ago to do mine, I just set it up to run on auto, and haven't done anything else to them, some are quite dark,and I'll probably lighten those up, although I did save them as a tiff image.
I must admit that I haven't come across any problems with mine with the colour, so I can't offer any advice there.
The negative scanner I have used is a canoscan FS4000US, but I'm thinking I'll get the ones I haven't scanned commercially as it is very time consuming!

I know Rooflyer had his done by someone here on this board, I'll see if I can find the thread, but it's about slides not negatives. I think it was FlyboyAl, I think he can do all sorts of stuff to digital, maybe worth sending him a pm.

http://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/your-questions/scanning-35mm-slides-72503.html

 

[OATEK]

When you said "early ones" I was thinking something like this:

Kenya, ca. 1957 (SWMBOs Aunt).

 

[LadyC]

Loving these photos. Will need to find some random ones of mine to post.

 

[Cossie]

Yes please, the more the merrier

 

[vetrade]

OK, thanks Cossie

 

[Cossie]

A few more, deserted village on the Kenyan coast called Gedi, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruins_of_Gedi



Yes, I paid this lady for her photo, I was criticised by others on the trip, but I'm fully aware of the hard life that most women have in the third world, so for me it was an easy decision to make.



Next stop, Ngorongoro Crater.


You lookin' at me?


Relaxing!

 

[Cossie]

More from the crater.

 

[Cossie]

Last one from the crater, then off to Serengeti.



Rock hyrax.


Game hunt.



Hippos.




Yep, we got bogged in that mire, I'm sure the driver/tour leader enjoyed seeing how far he could push the envelope, which usually meant we ended up in cough up to the axles!

 

[RB]

Found these from 1991 holiday

Funicular in Penang


Broken English spoken perfectly-sales pitch


View from Hotel in KL-think it was a Holiday Inn?

 

[JohnM]

More from the crater.

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Sadly, it's a bit hard to see tuskers like that these days .

 

[OATEK]

Sadly, it's a bit hard to see tuskers like that these days .

This young one turned up for a drink one day when my brother and his family were visiting Tandala from their then home in nearby Iringa, Tanzania. Luckily the game reserves in SW Tanzania have protected a few.