A ferry from Kete-Krachi across Lake Volta, Ghana, West Africa
This image was taken on a cycletouring visit to Ghana a good few years ago. I was going through my archive of images so that I can fill up my gallery section a bit more, and came across this. It was taken on an old Nikon F80 film camera and was developed and scanned in by a company called Sky Photographic in central London that went out of business about 6 years ago.
They just couldn’t adjust to the changing technology
I have about a hundred or so images from a variety of trips that I made around Africa over the last 10 years, although I won’t put them up here as they are so old, they will appear in the gallery soon(ish!)
As for the subject matter…I wanted to get from a tiny hamlet type place called Kete-Kratchi on the banks of Lake Volta, to the other side to get back onto the road that connects to a town called Atebubu.
The captain of this boat asked me if I wanted to go across and I did so he hauled my ridiculously heavy bike onto the boat and away we went.
I found myself in a section of swampy grass and mud and eventually made it onto the dirt road to carry on my cycling adventure.
Superb pictures, splendid work!!!
Excellent photos that you’ve captured here!! I love the PoV captured in the first photo as it adds incredible depth to the composition. Beautiful expressions as well.
Very beautiful photos, this means of locomotion! hoping that it will not n water intake! Tony good week