Vacation

One early morning during our stay at Singita Faru Faru in the (private) Grumeti reserve, we experienced the incredible views of a balloon flight over the reserve. Mostly the views were of the open plains, occasional trees and streams, and distant hills; but the most amazing views came at the end when we drifted over a herd of more than 100 Elephants! They were clearly bothered by us up in the sky above them – you’ll see a few turn to look and then begin moving away in the opposite direction …

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While much of our recent Africa Safari was in the expansive Serengeti, we spent one day driving into and around the much smaller but extremely beautiful Ngorongoro Crater – here’s a video tour from that day:

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Here’s another interpretation of our recent Tanzania Safari, this time created from photos I took. Once again, created from those photos using Apple Photo Memories – I’ve found that tool to be both excellent and terrible! It’s very fast to create a nice video slideshow using the Apple tool, but as soon as you want to alter or fine tune it, it becomes very challenging – the tool frequently and arbitrarily discards adjustments, and provides no way to control many aspects of the final creation. The minutes it takes to create an initial presentation turn into hours and days to try and get everything perfect. As you’ll see in this video, I eventually abandoned my attempts to reach “perfect”, and stopped at “good enough”!

Check out my other post for the alternative presentation, from videos rather than photos.