{"id":9495,"date":"2025-05-31T16:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T16:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9495"},"modified":"2025-05-31T16:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T16:11:04","slug":"dades-gorge-what-started-the-trans-africa-1975-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9495","title":{"rendered":"Dades Gorge: What started the Trans-Africa 1975 posts:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few weeks ago, on my Bluesky timeline, I was amazed to see this reposted post (shown below) by Rina\u202c \u202a@rina2012.bsky.social\u202c (https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/rina2012.bsky.social\/post\/3lmtuoz6ui22u<\/a>) showing a recent view of Dades Gorge in the Atlas Mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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post by @rina2012.bsky.social showing a view of Dades Gorge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The reason for my amazement was that I immediately recognised the view because I have a similar photo taken in 1975 of the same view from a slightly different viewpoint. This was taken when I was on an independent overland trip through Africa. Here is my response to Rina’s post:<\/p>\n\n\n

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The road has been improved but otherwise the view looks the same. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has made me think: I will start posting some of the photos I took on my Trans-Africa trip 50 years ago (50 years! That makes me feel old, it seems much more recent…)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the original photo – a digitised colour slide:<\/p>\n\n\n

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The original digitised photo) showing Dades Gorge taken 50 years ago<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

I intend, over the next few months, to show some photos from the trip I made. There are not that many to choose from – I took 10 rolls of slide film and a few rolls of black and white film. I also have copies of some of the photos taken by others on this journey through Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A few weeks ago, on my Bluesky timeline, I was amazed to see this reposted post (shown below) by Rina\u202c \u202a@rina2012.bsky.social\u202c (https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/rina2012.bsky.social\/post\/3lmtuoz6ui22u) showing a recent view of Dades Gorge in the Atlas Mountains. The reason for my amazement was that I immediately recognised the view because I have a similar photo taken in 1975 of … Continue reading “Dades Gorge: What started the Trans-Africa 1975 posts:”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,146,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape","category-photography","category-trans-africa-1975","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9495"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9706,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}