_Tsavo
In 1998 my sister’s husband loaned me his Minolta SLR for a couple of days. I fell in love. Not with him. With the camera. From that moment on I knew, I needed to have an SLR. Until then I took photos with my two vintage cameras, a Braun and a Voigtländer, both fixed-lens cameras. I loved and still love both cameras, but the option to change lenses and with every different lens having whole new possibilities - basically, a new camera - that was plain incredible. But SLRs were expensive and back then I was still in school with only little pocket money.
About ten years later - after having finished school, university and my job-training - my dream finally came true:
I got myself a (D)SLR and (over the course of a couple of months) three lenses. Now, about ten more years later, I do have some more lenses. And I am pretty sure there will be even more ;) The photos above are some of the first that I took during my Safari in Tsavo East, Kenya in 2011 with my (then) new baby, the Canon EOS 550 (Rebel T2i) which is now retired.
And trying to capture more than what’s visible, but rather the mood and spirit of a place (and - at least in the beginning - failing miserably) certainly laid the path for what was about to come…
