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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · 28d

This week in Florence, Italy brought me face-to-face with some of the greatest artistic geniuses of western civilization. Creativity so profound that it birthed the Renaissance - a fusion of the human and divine in classical forms.

#art #photography #italy #travel

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · May 18

Wandering through the Kasbah in Akka.

#morocco #photography #streetphotography #fotografia #travel #documentary #portrait #travelphotography

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · May 5

This morning we enjoyed the vast, silent majesty of the Sahara desert in Morocco. #morocco #desert #photography #fotografia #travel #documentary #landscape #travelphotography

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Apr 2

Kenyan Somali women erect a shelter called an “aqal” in northwest Kenya. These portable shelters are dome shaped and covered with thick grass mats and carried on the backs of camels when disassembled.
#photography #africa #kenya #somalis #documentaryphotography #portrait #nomads #travel

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Mar 17

Kenya in two portraits: coastal Swahili and Northern Samburu.
#kenya #africa #portrait #portraitphotography #photography #travel #safari

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Feb 9

Walking down a narrow chasm to the Treasury of Petra, one walks in the footsteps of the ancients.
#jordan #petra #history #archaeology #travel #voyages #photography #landscape #adventure #middleast

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Jan 29

“All at once the desert was everywhere, and I was overcome with a feeling of relief. Sand, rocks, hills — the whole landscape was tinted the same shade of orange as the sky.” — Jasmin Darznik
#photography #landscape #travel #nature #sunset #landscapephotography #naturephotography #jordan #desert

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Jan 26

I used to take photos for Doctors Without Borders, which took me to some far-flung places. In this case the war troubled region of (now) South Sudan. This is a Dinka boy in front of a crashed food transport plane.
#photography #documentary #MSF #africa #portraits #travel
#safari #people #southsudan

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Jan 24

Sleepy kitty at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Jerusalem.
#photography #cats #islam #travel #portrait #wander #middleeast #felines #furface #animalworld #jerusalem

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Jan 23

Almost got a traffic ticket there riding a rented motorbike. Our mutual language incomprehension resulted in just a warning from the very nice traffic cop.

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Jan 22

It was 1988 when I made this photo of a Somali man and his daughter filling water skins at a mountain stream in northern Somalia. This was right before the civil war when I could still travel safely. Pastoral traditions continue even now.
#photography #film #somalia #nomads #documentary #portrait

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Jan 21

Ma’in Hot Springs in the hills above the Dead Sea. Once the therapeutic retreat for Herod the Great to bathe his skin sores, it’s now a popular waterfalls and thermal springs site for Jordanian visitors.
#photography #jordan #landscape #landscapephotography #history #waterfalls

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Jan 16

A Samburu guide on our walking safari in the Mathews Range mountains in northern Kenya. His antique era rifle still seemed serviceable.
#photography #safari #kenya #portrait #portraitphotography #travel #adventure #wanderlust #holiday#voyages #people #landscape #culture #samburu #fotographia

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Jan 14

When I lived in Jordan I followed the path of the Arab Revolt in the Great War. Instrumental to the ouster of the Ottoman authorities was T.E. Lawrence. This castle in Azrak was one of the bases from which attacks were launched.
#photography #history #landscape #WWI #travel #documentary #middleast

The room in Azrak castle where “Lawrence of Arabia” lived and plotted attacks against the Ottoman Empire.

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Jan 13

You meet the nicest people in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. In this case, a Coptic Cleric from Egypt deep in the cavernous recesses of the church.
#photography #portraitphotography #christianity #portrait #religion #travel #jerusalem #travelohotography #voyages #middleeast #church

An Egyptian Coptic Priest in a crypt in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Jan 12

In Kenya you meet the most interesting people. Here, I photographed Lupita Nyong’o on a fashion shoot in Tsavo West National Park before she attained Hollywood glory some years later.
#portrait #portraitphotography #fashion #celebrity #hollywood #kenya #photography #hollywoodstar #tsavo

Tsavo West lava field backdrops Lupita’s natural beauty.

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Jan 11

I could spend years on the streets of Cairo trying to capture the ever shifting spirit of this loud, chaotic, dynamic city. If it doesn’t move, then it’s ancient history!
#photography #travelphotography #wanderlust #travel #voyages #streetphotography #documentary #culture #history #egypt #cairo

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Jan 10

Two fishing pirogues glide serenely upriver in the Sine Saloum delta of Senegal. Days of perfect calm and peace.
#wanderlust #photography #fotographia #travelphotography ##africa #senegal #landscapephotography #landscape #zen

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Jan 5

An old fashioned merry-go-round at the Christmas market, 2024, Brussels, Belgium.
#photography #fotographia #streetphotography #brussels #travel

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Dec 20

"When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big." ~ David Lean
#jordan #photography #fotographia #landscape #landscapephotography #desert #environment #wadirum #adventure #travel #travelphotography #adventuretravel #wander

A hawk flying above the desert expanse of Wadi Rum.

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Dec 18

A mountain village in Oman. One of my favorite countries to visit to get off the beaten track.
#photography #oman #travel #travelphotography #landscape #adventure #middleeast #arab #fotographia #adventuretravel

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Dec 4

Anyone who has a cat knows this look.
#wildlifephotography #kenya #safari #adventure #travel #conservation #lions #photography #wildlife #cats #samburu #travelphotography

Lions at a water hole in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya.

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Dec 4

Close encounter of the feline kind. While staying in a cottage in the Tsavo West national park a pride of lions wandered outside hunting buffalo. Here we came face to face to each other’s surprise!
#wildlifephotography #kenya #safari #adventure #travel #conservation #lions #photography #wildlife

Young male lion on the porch of the visitor bungalow. Tsavo West, Kenya.

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Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Nov 29

Lots of nostalgia for me. I used to live on 2d and Bell.

Endless Safari @ericgaabo.bsky.social · Nov 28

Happy Thanksgiving for those who celebrate! Since food is the center piece of this holiday (and life), I present to you Senegal’s national dish of fish and rice (ceeb-u-jeen). Magnifique!
#photography #travelphotography #senegal #food #culture #africa #travel #voyages #globalcuisine

Fish and vegetables on a bed of red aromatic rice.

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