Kakheti, Georgia, May 2010

Sunset over the grapevines

Bucket of guinea-fowl chicks gathered for bedtime

Sleepy chicken chick

Kakheti, Georgia, May 2010

This is where the chicks - guinea-fowl and chicken - sleep at night

Twig broom

Final running guinea-fowl for now, I promise

Kakheti, Georgia, May 2010

More guinea-fowl running away from the lens! But the week-old bird in the hand proverbially is worth any two of these!

Kakheti, Georgia

Guinea-fowl chick: A bird in the hand...

On the run from me at sunset

Preening

Relaaaax, dearie, the axe is far away yet

Kakheti, Georgia

Guinea-fowl on the baking-shed roof while Lali's mom makes bread...

... and taking off

Kakheti, Georgia

Guniea-fowl and tone (clay bread oven!)

Making twisted rope from thinner rope, for cows

Bread in the clay oven, stuck by itself to the oven's vertical walls to bake in a few minutes - mmm!

Kakheti, Georgia

More Guinea-fowl streaking by, and grapes remaining mercifully still

Kakheti, Georgia

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Experiments with panning the camera in the direction of travel of a moving subject - in this case, Gunea-fowl (top) and geese. The idea is to blur the background and some of the subject, but also - when it works - to have some of the subject be frozen by its motion being in the same direction & at the same speed as that of the camera

Norio, February 2007

Georgia is full of what I call "African surprises", things which I remember from my Rhodesian childhood. Here from Norio, the village near Martqopi Monastery, is a picture of one of these - Guinea-fowl, which are good eating in Africa and presumably here as well.