Image shot throught through a dusty window of an airliner approaching the airport at Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, made with Fujifilm X100F and edited in Photoshop CC. For WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge, Delta.
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usoro uso
Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa and often referred to as the 'Giant of Africa', is a Federal Republic made up of 36 States. Akwa Ibom, located on the coastal southern part of the country in the 'South South' sits between Cross Rivers State and Rivers State. Created in 1987, from the former Cross…Read more usoro uso
seven weddings
Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls - Khalil Gibran Today, I attended seven weddings. Well, not intentionally. I was invited to…Read more seven weddings
traffic
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving ― Lao Tzu I'm reading Susan Sontag's On Photography. This passage seemed apposite 'Whatever the claims for photography as a form of personal expression on a par with painting, it remains true that its originality is inextricably linked to the powers of…Read more traffic
sunset clause
'Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries' - Jack Kerouac, On the Road Sunset at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, shot with Fujifilm X100F - 23mm,…Read more sunset clause
the road taken
'Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry' Jack Kerouac for wordpress weekly photo challenge - the road taken
against the odds
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about ― Haruki Murakami ...waiting for my two million naira at the fulani pool bar, hilton transcorp, abuja, nigeria 😉 for wordpress weekly photo challenge - against the odds
v day
as dave allen used to say (in a gruff voice, with a glass of whisky, and a smouldering cigarette, on national TV...), 'good night, thank you, and may your god go with you...' fulani pool bar, transcorp hilton, abuja, nigeria
shadow
I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow ― Sylvia Plath Earlier this week, my newest (and dearest) photographic friend (my Fujifilm X100T) and I were separated, irrevocably. Whether due to my being careless, and leaving it somewhere between the security check at reception and the hotel bar (unlikely), or being careless…Read more shadow
carpe diem
'The best things in life make you sweaty' ― Edgar Allan Poe My last trip to Abuja, in January, was a hectic and work filled space with little time to read, write or take photographs. Back in town today, and felt I should seize the moment. This man's purposeful stride seems to set the tone…Read more carpe diem