Landmines in Mozambique (multimedia)

Reflecting

Women from the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God pray at Miramar, Maputo

Limpeza Zion

Maritimo, Maputo

Ocean Air

Bairro dos Pescadores, Maputo

Blustery Day

Avenida Marginal, Maputo

Chiboa

Miramar, Maputo

Cooling

Costa do Sol, Maputo

Mudfish

Boys try to catch fish trapped in a mud puddle, Bairro dos Pescadores, Maputo.

Beach Deforestation

Thursday, March 12 Friday, March 13Before and After: Women chopped wood after cutting down a casuarina tree off the Marginal on Triunfo Beach, Maputo. The trees taking decades to mature were originally planted to combat erosion.

Tainted Clothing

A member of the Mazione religious group sits in layers of abandoned clothing and sand at Triunfo Beach in Maputo. Clothing is discarded and left on the beach when it is believed to have bad spirits.

Blood of the Dove

A man holds an injured dove used in a spiritual cleansing ritual where its blood marked his shoulders, back and feet, Maputo.

Drink

Jardim dos Namorados, Maputo. Nerdy sidenote: Over the past two months I've been shooting more often with my new point-and-shoot camera, a Canon G10, which aside from shutter lag and slow write time is wonderful. It produces RAW files, which is a far cry above my last point-and-shoot, a Minox which was very compact and had some manual functions. I kicked myself several times over when I made a few great photographs with that and had file sizes too small to sell. G10 frames are a bit more square than with a 35 mm camera (note this frame and the previous two blog entries below.) In some ways, I liken it to shooting with an old Rolleiflex and consider the write time sort of like advancing film in the old days. I have never been terribly fond of large equipment (for years my favorite camera was a Nikon FM2 with a 24 mm lens) and ideally, all of my equipment would fit in my pockets which seems more and more likely.