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  • Masai Mara – Yawning all day long

    Masai Mara – Yawning all day long

    Life in the wild savanah is a weird mix of leisurly quiet life (herbivorous graze in the sun, lions sleep in the shade of a tree, hippos float lazily in a river) and of terrible activity (antelopes are always alert about what is happening around, felines start running as fast as they can in order…

  • Masai Mara – landscapes 2

    Masai Mara – landscapes 2

    Even more landscape images from the Masai Mara National Park in Kenya (Spring 2006). Savanah after the rain

  • Minolta prices going down – Time to buy?

    Minolta prices going down – Time to buy?

    After the announcement of the demise of Konica-Minolta, and its replacement with Sony (actually in place now that April came), I asked myself what is now the consequence of this on camera prices.

  • Nikon better operating profits

    Nikon better operating profits

    This is what the firm with the yellow logo announced. And this is all coming from the digital camera business that is being even better than expected. This would be the first confirmation that moving out of the analog camera business was the thing to do (from the point of view of the company –…

  • RoHS and WEEE, the new game in the electronics industry

    Ok! Those do not look like nice words. But the European industry is starting to consider very seriously the consequences of these. They represent two European Directives intending to reduce very significantly the toxic waste and the use of hasardous materials in the electrical and electronic products (this is so wide a scope that a…

  • Wild trails

    A photography friend’s web site: Sentiers sauvages (Wild trails) where you will find a lot of nice animal pictures. Plenty of birds, but also some pictures taken in Africa including some that may remind you of my own safari to Kenya (this is no random encounter, of course).

  • The lizard and the hippo – a one-snapshot photographic tale

    The lizard and the hippo – a one-snapshot photographic tale

      A green lizard too lazy to cross the Mara river (Kenya) is using the back of a friendly hippopotamus

  • Masai Mara – Landscapes

    Masai Mara – Landscapes

    Remember! I advised to bring a trans-standard zoom to take a few postcards during your photo safari (there is more than mere animals in an African wild life reserve). Morning and evening lights gave me the occasion to make a few interesting images in the landscapes I was in. I collected here some of the…

  • Nature images

    For the lovers of nature images (mostly African), I was directed to a new web site. Seemingly interesting, images are not all perfect, but some are quite neat. Colors of WildLife Thanks to Simba.