honey wine and honey bees

kate being lovely in ethiopia. (july 2010)

-i remember a bee finding its way into your pocket and that sound you made when you realized what had happened.

-i remember you slipping off you pants to show me the welt on your thigh. i remember thinking it looked like it hurt a lot.

-i remember having too much honey wine to drink and deciding that the stairs of a stadium were as good a place as any to take a rest.

-i remember you coming to find me.

-i remember sitting in the front of a van wishing you had a seat belt as the driver hit the breaks to avoid driving through a circle of vultures.

-i remember drinking too much coffee. and then drinking some more.

-i remember throwing books at a cloud of winged bugs and wishing we'd stayed in the nice hotel.

-i remember us trying to track down the kids that stole your camera and then resigning ourselves to the fact we'd never find them.

-i remember listening to ethiopian jazz, sort of like this song.

-i remember you taking pictures with your disposable camera and then handing it over to me. take one of me as i walk past this fence, you said. and i did.

all at once

here's the best of a few packs of polaroid film i shot over the past couple months or so. click on the images and they'll get real big. so big, you'll be able to see the whole polaroid. wow!


(most of these images were taken on tz artistic film with an sx-70, though a few were taken with regular ol' 600 film and others with some specialty film from the impossible project.)

between sudan and asia

a rancher guides his cattle past tis issat, 'smoking waters.'

the internet is a bit of a luxury these days. hopefully i'll have a strong connection before the week is over. until then, i wanted to put a little something up about (northern) ethiopia.

not far from lake tana, the source of the blue nile, is a waterfall called tis issat. directly translated from amharic, it means smoking waters. near the overlook, kate and i met a rancher who has seen the falls shrink as water from the blue nile has been redirected into hydroelectric and irrigation projects.

it used to be that the waterfall overwhelmed everything, throwing a cloud of mist over the whole area. two rainbows hung permanently in the sky. those days are over, it seems, but the area itself is still incredible.




it's a short hike to the falls. you set off from a small town, where cows trod past local barbershops.