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I am a Uganda-based freelance photographer, and this is a receptacle for whatever I'm toying with at the moment, varying greatly in quality like the goat stew which so often powers it. Personal blog etc.
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Tag Archives: Uganda
Dozing Monkey
Posted in Photography, Snaps, travel
Tagged animal, cute, monkey, photography, sleeping, travel, Uganda, wildlife
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Clear Water
Posted in Photography, Snaps, travel
Tagged Africa, photography, photos, travel, Uganda
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Lake Nkuruba
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Tagged Africa, muzungu, photo, photograph, photography, pretty, travel, Uganda
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Nerves
I’ve been on holiday the past two weeks. Brace yourself for snaps.
Preparing for Independence
The jets are practicing their fly-pasts over Kampala today, and I snapped this:
Posted in Photography, Snaps, travel
Tagged 50 years, fifty years, fighter, independence, jet, Kampala, nakasero, Uganda
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On The Trail Of The One-In-A-Million Bird
I teach photography to people occasionally- nothing particularly complex, just basic handling of SLRs and the outline of how to make pictures a little better. Recently a couple of students from the first class I ran contacted me. They wanted … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Snaps, travel
Tagged adventure, Africa, beautiful, bird, birding, birds, east africa, interesting, malachite, mambamba, photo, photography, ramsar, shoebill, travel, Uganda
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Daily Storms
It’s the tail end of the rainy season here and the storms are coming almost every day. It rains so hard that the streets run ankle-deep with the runoff from the surrounding hills, and the day ceases until it passes. … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Snaps, travel
Tagged beautiful, clouds, Kampala, photography, storm, Uganda
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Studio Pics II
I have been absent the past few days editing some pictures I took at home during the open studio days. You can see all of the images on this page here: https://www.facebook.com/willboase. Why not hit ‘like’ while you’re there? Here … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Snaps
Tagged Kampala, kaz kasozi, model, photograph, photos, studio, Uganda
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Lake Bunyonyi Snaps
(I was using my new old Nikon F2 all weekend so some film-based images will arrive as soon as I process the films)
Posted in Photography, Snaps, travel
Tagged Africa, beautiful, canoes, dugout, fishing, Lake Bunyonyi, photo, photography, travel, Uganda
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Some Posters We Made
I’ve been doing a lot of poster design recently, working with Anna Kućma. She’s been running a series of exhibitions at MishMash, in Kampala, and the posters for those (and a couple of others) are below. But first, here’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Kućma, art, design, exhibition, graphic design, Kampala, mishmash, ronex, Uganda
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While I was at Work…
I saw this: You can read all about them here.
Posted in Photography, Snaps, travel
Tagged bird, kingfisher, malachite, nile, photograph, photography, travel, Uganda, wildlife
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Alien Fruit II
Six years and two months ago I was in Lima, aged 18 and enjoying the tail end of a very good gap year. I posted on my blog (which was called Eloquencias, despite being nothing of the sort) something about … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Snaps, travel
Tagged Africa, beautiful, food, foreign, fruit, funny, photo, photography, photos, pretty, QENP, Queen Elizabeth National Park, runyankole, strange, travel, Uganda, work
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Yesterday
This is how yesterday went: Crashing through bushes on the outskirts of QENP Francis the guide. Yours Truly. Always better behind a lens.There are two trucks in this picture. I’m offering a sweet to the first person to spot them*. … Continue reading
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Tagged photography, QENP, Queen Elizabeth National Park, tourism, travel, Uganda
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Two Wonderful Things And An Invitation
Addis Rumble is an art blog which should be shut down, because it’s making us all look bad by comparison. It can be found at http://addisrumble.com/, and it’s worth a read. The second wonderful thing is a photo competition which … Continue reading
Guess What I found?
A long time ago I worked on a project for USAID named ‘A New Dawn’. If you look back to the early days of this blog it was all I ever talked about. And then it finished and I had … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Snaps, travel
Tagged A New Dawn, awesome, book, funny, humble brag, Kitgum, lc5, Northern Uganda, Uganda, USAID
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Sleepless Nights in Gulu Bus Depot
Yesterday Andrew Green and I went to Kitgum working on a story. Kitgum, for the uninitiated, is a bloody long way north. It’s practically on the South Sudanese border, and sits at the end of a very bumpy road, an … Continue reading
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Tagged Gulu, Kitgum, matatu, nodding disease, photography, travel, Uganda, white whine
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The Rainy Season
Yesterday I spent the entire day slogging through thick mud on a motorbike on a rural road in Northern Uganda in the rain with Andrew Green trying to reach Pabbo to do a story about the refugees there. We succeeded, … Continue reading
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Tagged Gulu, huts, Kampala, Northern Uganda, not funny, photo, photography, rain, slum, travel, Uganda
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Two Little Birds
I was in Masaka (southern Uganda) over the weekend photographing a rally, and spotted these two birds on a telephone wire. If you’d like a high-resolution copy of this image to keep as your desktop image or screensaver send me … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, cute, Masaka, nature, photo, photograph, telephone wire, travel, Uganda
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Radio + Weasel Album Launch Photos
I go anywhere if it’s free. This was a good example of that. Sorry about the watermarks, this is Radio and Weasel (and friends) launching their new album in Hotel Africana, Kampala. They’re two of Uganda’s biggest artists, and they … Continue reading
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Tagged bobi wine, concert, gig, hotel africana, Kampala, music, photography, photos, radio and weasel, Uganda
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Hide and Seek and a Photo Competition
I’m in Ethiopia at the moment visiting some sites for Tearfund, which may go some way to explaining why you’re about to see a picture of a donkey. Ethiopia is very pleasant, although the livestock on the roads make travel … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Snaps, travel
Tagged competition, donkey, god, photo, photography, picture, travel, Uganda, watoto
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Some Matatu Names
The main mode of mass transport in Uganda is the matatu (as it is in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania), a minibus which offers a lot of very crammed seats in a small space for a low cost. The name Matatu … Continue reading
There Are Other Options
In amongst my frustration (and later concern) at the Invisible Children “#Kony2012″ video I have still been working, and this post is about a fascinating day I spent this week with Shelter and Settlement Alternatives at one of their projects … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Snaps
Tagged Africa, amazing, bottle, development, interesting, Kampala, kisenyi, light, lowtech, photoessay, photography, pictures, project, simple, slum, solution, sustainable, Uganda, water
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