God studies his lines while the wagon stage is set up,and unfurls the rainbow signaling his promise to Noah to never flood the earth again, at the end of the play of Noah’s Ark and The Flood, one of the plays of the Chester Cycle, performed in their entirety at Victoria College, the University of Toronto, under the auspices of Poculis Ludique Societas (Drinking and Gaming Society), a group devoted to medieval and early modern theatre and associated with the Centre for Drama at the U of T.
I wanted to experiment a bit with a punchier, more-saturated look, and this is what came out of a shoot with Pop the cat.
Strobist info: 1 SB-28 in a shoot through umbrella camera right to fill open shade.
A horse grazes on a rainy day, just outside the tamari betoch (student huts) of the famous church of Debre Berhan Selassie, in Gonder.
A teacher of arabic writing at the mosque in Bahir Dar. Moslems are a significant minority in areas of the North, and comprise a majority in the Eastern areas of Ethiopia.
This gentleman, whose name I have sadly forgotten, was a farmer and a deacon (I believe) at the local church. When I was in the Andabet area for research, he showed my translator and me to the various farms of the priests who made parchment and scribed books.