“The locomotion”
Most Kenyans travel with motorcycles, and sometimes one of these is shared by multiple families, at least in Maasai villages.
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/the-locomotion/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/6.4, 1/420 s
“Making fire”
Real practice or only folkloric demonstration for the easily impressed tourists, the realization of a fire by rubbing two pieces of wood is mastered by the Massaï.
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/making-fire/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 320, ƒ/6.4, 1/60 s
“The village”
We have been fortunate enough to visit an actual Maasai village with the son of the village's chef, an incredible experience.
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/the-village/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/6.4, 1/950 s
“Travel dreams…”
Possibly Africa’s most famous ethnic group, the Maasai people are semi-nomadic people located primarily in Kenya and Northern Tanzania.
According to their own oral history the Masai people originated in the Nile Valley in Northern Africa and migrated south around the 15th century with their cattle.
Once…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/travel-dreams/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/6.4, 1/750 s
“A little nap”
The sweltering midday heat doesn't spare the animals.
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/a-little-nap/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/6.4, 1/340 s
“Proud Maasai”
Standing proud in the savannah with their red blankets and painted shields, the Maasai people have become one of the more widely known symbols of East Africa; the Maasai shield is even featured on Kenya’s national flag. It’s not uncommon in Kenya and Tanzania to see the Maasai in their traditional dress, not only in…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/proud-maasai/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/6.4, 1/450 s
“Variable sunbird in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya”
The variable sunbird (or yellow-bellied sunbird) is a passerine bird which feed largely on nectar, although it will also take insects, especially when feeding young. Flight is fast and direct on their short wings. Most species can take nectar by hovering like a…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/variable-sunbird-in-maasai-mara-national-reserve-kenya/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 800, ƒ/11, 1/210 s
“Baglafecht weaver”
This high and mid-mountain species, which descends at its lowest around 800 meters in Uganda and Kenya, is well adapted to degraded, agricultural and even urban environments. At the base, it lives in the edges and clearings of the mountain forest.
It is a solitary nester, which can however organize…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/baglafecht-weaver/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 640, ƒ/11, 1/500 s
“Lappet-faced vulture in Maasai Mara National Reserve”
This vulture prefers to live in dry savannah, thornbush, arid plains, deserts with scattered trees in wadis, open mountain slopes. They are usually found in undisturbed open country with a scattering of trees and apparently prefer areas with minimal grass cover.
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/lappet-faced-vulture-in-maasai-mara-national-reserve/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 400, ƒ/11, 1/500 s
“Lappet-faced vulture on a tree in Maasai Mara National Reserve”
This vulture prefers to live in dry savannah, thornbush, arid plains, deserts with scattered trees in wadis, open mountain slopes. They are usually found in undisturbed open country with a scattering of trees and apparently prefer areas with minimal grass…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/lappet-faced-vulture-on-a-tree-in-maasai-mara-national-reserve/
📅 26 février 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 400, ƒ/11, 1/500 s
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