The chaotic and colorful Timkat eve (ketera) procession of Tabots in central Addis Ababa.
Two returning Timkat processions meet at the Sarbet round-about.
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| Silouette memorial
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| Addis traffic
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| Yohanness IV Palace (~1884)
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| TPLF Billboard
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| 33 miles SE of Mekele
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| 20 miles South of Erte Ale
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| Vehicle Trouble
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| First: a winch clear
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| 14 miles SW of Erte Ale
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| Next up: Battery experiments
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| Erte Ale base camp
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| Erte Ale from base camp
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| The smoking crater ahead!
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There was lots of smoke, red list by the lava. For most shots, to cut through the smoke, I adjusted exposure to -2.0.
But -1.0 seems to have worked well too.
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| Smoky Lava (0.0). Video (4 MB, 5 sec)
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| Red Lava (-2.0). Video (3 MB, 4 sec)
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| Lava Close Up (-2.0). Video (3 MB, 4 sec)
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| Red Lava (-1.0). Video (3 MB, 4 sec)
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| My hut
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| Some of Ethiopia's myriad donkeys
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| Incoming camels, carrying hay for their return journey
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| Salt flats at Lake Assale
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| Salt flats at Lake Assale
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| Lake Assale
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| Sunset at Lake Assale
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| Another incoming camel train
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Hundreds of tiny salt geysers, bubbling up brine, with mixtures of sulfur (yellow), potash (green), and iron (red). The colors are intense!
When Dallol gets one of its rare rainfalls, everything is washed away...
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| Little Bubblers. Video (4 MB, 5 sec)
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| Atop tiny bubbling salty geysers
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| "Salt Mountain": Salt topped by gypsum caps
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| Lake with bubbling sulfur spring
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| A bubbling oubliette
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| A red bubbling pool
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| Bubbling sufur springs. Video (5 MB, 6 sec)
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Cutting salt in the hot, hot, sun.
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| Curring Salt. Video (5 MB, 5 sec)
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| Standard camel load
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| Local escorts
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| View from Wukro Cherkos
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| Wukro Cherkos
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| Medhane Alem Kesho
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| Key mechanism (from inside)
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| Mikael Milhaizengi
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| Mikael Milhaizengi
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| "Rome" Stele
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| "Rome" Stele
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| King Ezana’s Stele
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| King Ezana’s Stele
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| Collapsed Great Stele
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| Collapsed Great Stele
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| Collapsed Megalithic Tomb
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| Underground tomb area
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| Underground tomb area
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| "Queen of Sheba’s Bath"
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| "Queen of Sheba’s Bath"
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| 20th c St Mary of Zion Church
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| 20th c St Mary of Zion Church
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| An identical Trinity
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| 17th c Church of St Mary of Zion
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| Identical Trinity
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| Outbuilding "holding the Ark of the Covenant"
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| Note protective fencing.
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| Church overflow
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| Lebu Station
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| "Hard Seat" carriage
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| 21 miles SE of Addis Ababa
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| 51 miles SE of Addis Ababa
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| 118 miles East of Addis Ababa
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| 146 miles South of Lac Assal
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| 102 miles South of Lac Assa
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| Hamoudi Mosque (1906)
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| Hamoudi Mosque
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| Hamoudi Mosque
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| Canyon Adaleh (?)
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| Lac Assal
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| Lac Assal
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| "Green Tire Beach" on Lake Ghoubet gulf
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| Guide + Fissure
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| Old lava tube (?)
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| Old lava landscape
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| Awassa
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| Awassa
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| Lake Awasa
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| 127 miles NW of Moyale
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| Moyale
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| Distant Wildebeest
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