Eritrea is a very young country.
The long war of independence
from Ethiopia is just over a
decade ago and right now the
country is in the throws of a
major upgrade in infastructure.
Eritrea was part of the Italian
empire built by Mussolini in the
early days of the facists. He
saw it as the African Riviera
and spent vast amounts of money
building up the capital, Asmara,
and a spectacular rail line to
the coastal port of Masawa.
Keren is Eritrea's third city.
It is ringed with mountains and
still boasts much of the art
deco inspired architecture of
the Italians. The hotel from
which this photo is taken may be
a fading beauty, but one can
imagine what it was once like.
Keren has been the scene of two
famous battles - one between the
British and the Italians in the
'40s that was particularly
savage and a second, much
quicker battle when the
Eritreans defeated the
Ethiopians.
This pic was taken early morning
with my little 2MP snapper. Wish
I had my CP5700 back then!
Photo by:
Rolando Wallusche Saul (woladorsky)
I think this will be the last
photo to post from my old Lumix.
The tigers meet is a picture
that follow up my serie of this
beautyful ethinc group in
Eritrea. The Tigers meet depicts
one of those cultural moments,
of course women where not part
of it but I believe and I wish
that in a different way from our
(western) they do have something
to say, I don't know the reason
for this gathering but I could
feel the laid back atmosphere,
the heat of the Northern Red Sea
Province and the dust almost
covering my face.
Photo by:
Rolando Wallusche Saul (woladorsky)
Hi there! I am back from a one
week holyday in Italy. I bought
a new camera there...a Nikon
D-80 so I am just now a happy
man. I took over 1000 pictures
and I will share some of theme
with you pretty soon.
Today I am posting the Keren
sunset. I was sitting in the
hotel and went up to the roof to
investigate if there was by any
chance good light for shoting..I
was fortunate because there was
a little spot beyond the
mountains. This little spot
looks much more extended in the
photo than what it was in
reality. I used all the
extension of my zoom in order to
capture this one.
I hope you like it
cheers
Photo
by: Rolando Wallusche Saul (woladorsky)
After a two hours trip east of
Keren, in the middle of the
Roara Mountains (middle of
nowhere)the fog appeared out of
nowhere. The rainy season have
been the best in Eritrea for the
last three years, something good
for this arid country.
I took this one from the car.
The original is a colour one, I
converted it to B&W and applied
a red filter effect.
Rolando Wallusche Saul
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