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I was in Eritrea on a documentary project, near the Sudan border. We

stopped for the night near the river Gash, and could hear a lot of

screaming animals. A caravan of camels on its way across Eritrea

didn't manage to cross the river. Local villagers tried desperately

to drag the camels out of the river before sunset.

I managed to shoot one roll of Tmax 100 before it became to dark,

mostly using my 18-35 mm zoom with Nikon F4.

This camel was the only one they managed to get loose before dark.

Only one camel died during the night. 3 years earlier the same

happened, and then over 40 camels were drowned during the night.

the rest of my camel pictures:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=184960

Robert

I do find that this image works in so many ways. It tells the whole story just by seeing the facial expressions, and to see the strained muscles.

But the most mysterious part about this image to me is that person in the shirt in the right center background. It would appear that he's the superior to these subordinates. It leaves my mind thinking. What are these guys doing, why are they here...

Great job on making my mind think, it takes a pot of coffee to do that usually! - Dustin