Ethiopia - Borana

[Manfred M]

These shots are of some of the Borana ethnic group that live in South-Western Ethiopia:


Borana Woman




Young Borana Woman




Old Borana Woman





While I've been posting images of the people, I haven't posted any of the places where they live, and these are quite different amongst the various ethnic groups and tribes. This is an image of the Borana Village where I captured the images.

[Mike Buckley]

I love the facial expression of the third one. Very nice!

[Donald]

Thank you, again, Manfred.

I do particularly like the lighting on, and the pose struck by, the woman in the first of this series.

[Manfred M]

I love the facial expression of the third one. Very nice!

Thanks Mike - when I first looked at her, I initially thought she was an old man, but when I had a closer look....

[Manfred M]

Thank you, again, Manfred.

I do particularly like the lighting on, and the pose struck by, the woman in the first of this series.

Thanks Donald - those were the two features that struck me about her too, when I took the image. The only problem was that she had a fly on her lip and the fingers of the boy in the background were very distracting, plus a few other minor issues. So this is the first image I actually had to do some serious post-processing on. I got two shots of her in this pose, and both had the darn fly...

The downside of shooting with a 200mm focal length and looking at the results on the camera's tiny screen is you can't see the issue until you look at the image on the computer.

[Mike Buckley]

some serious post-processing

And well done.