From Swaziland to eSwatini, a photo from Shiselweni, Southeast

Photographer's Note

A few days ago king Mswati III of Swaziland announced, to mark 50 years of independence from the British rule, that the country from now on is going to be named eSwatini.

Driving through Swaziland in 2016, we made a stop in the village of Lavumisa in the Shiselweni region, near the border against South Africa. A cluster of tratidional rondwel houses caught my attention. When I captured a few pictures of the buildings, a woman came walking towards us. It turned out to be a very gentle and hospitable lady, who would like to show us around in the nice cluster of rondawel houses. The woman, who lived here with parts of her family, also was a kindergarten teacher, and ran a kindergarten located just a few meters away (main picture). She also gave us a tour in the kindergarten. An exciting encounter with a great resource person and a representative from the country now called eSwatini.

I will upload two WS photos. One that shows the cluster of rondawel buildings and one of the kind kindergarten teacher.

holmertz, COSTANTINO, jhm, Fis2, alvaraalto, alvaraalto, cornejo, ikeharel, abmdsudi, macjake, jean113, PaulVDV, lucasgalodoido has marked this note useful

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Tue (91612) 2018-04-23 2:27

Hello Erling,
Oh, I had missed the news about the name change. A wonderful photo with an amazing sunlight, which goes so well with the warm colours of the earth and houses. Excellent photo and good composition.
Lars

holmertz (102042) 2018-04-23 3:50

Hej Erling,
En fin bild från den swaziländska landsbygden, långt från stora städer. Det varma ljuset skapar en fantastisk atmosfär. Jag hoppas att den lilla byggnaden närmast oss inte välter om någon går in i den. ;-)
Jag läste om namnbytet men blev lite förvånad över att det blev eSwatini. Jag trodde att det redan fanns ett annat traditionellt namn, Ngwane.
Bästa hälsningar,
Gert

jimmj63 (0) 2018-04-23 4:36

ciao Erling,
lost in desert!
this image suggests abandonment.
very good the warm light of the afternoon,
ciao, Giacomo

Sergiom (117241) 2018-04-23 5:10

Bonjour Erling,

On ne voit pas souvent de photo de cette région du monde. C'est intéressant de découvrir l'architecture des maisons ordinaires ainsi que les couleurs à la mode.

Amicalement

Serge

COSTANTINO (115583) 2018-04-23 5:26

Hello dear Erling and have anice time
and a happy evening
I like this peaceful landscape in brown color
no people nobody only plants and houses
sky and earth
welldone
regards
Costantino

jhm (211734) 2018-04-23 6:03

Hello Erling,

I like your nice portrait with lady with nice teeth .
Sharpness and clarity are perfect.
This care for depth and perspective.
An excellent panorama view.
Very well done, TFS.

Have a nice day,
John.

Silvio1953 (220665) 2018-04-23 6:47

Ciao Erling, great view of lovely place, superb sky, wonderful warm colors, excellent clarity and splendid light, very well done, my friend, ciao Silvio

lousat (138655) 2018-04-23 8:39

HI Erling,3 beautiful pics to celebrate the 50th years of indipendence of this small nation. A great choice of the moment,this great light warm up the colors in a fantastic way,and it's nice too to read your perfect day there,well done! Have a nice evening and thanks,Luciano

gervaso (28177) 2018-04-23 8:55

Hello, Erling!

The warm colors given by the low sun look beautiful, and there is a curious little house in the middle of the image, that looks like the bathrooms there used to be outside of the houses in the countryside of Brazil in the past. The sky looks great! Wonderful composition!

Fis2 (169791) 2018-04-23 10:41

Witaj Erling!
Interesting place, view makes impression.
Good panorama frame and composition.
Excellent light and colors.
Photo has atmosphere.
Warm regards.
Krzysztof

alvaraalto (42804) 2018-04-24 2:35

Hello Erling
The news of Swaziland's name change has not yet reached the news here. At least I have not read it in the newspaper or heard it on radio or tv.
Your excellent presentation of 3 photos and an informative text could be nicely taken over as background information.
excellent work
Have a nice day, groet Rob

cornejo (61504) 2018-04-24 4:33

Hello Erling, very good photograph of this interesting postcard of this beautiful place, very well captured in this beautiful image, with good sharpness, light, color and quality. Very good and interesting work perfectly done, my congratulations my friend. Thanks for sharing this beautiful work.

Good afternoon and happy week.
Best wishes from the south of Spain.
Angel.

ikeharel (112475) 2018-04-24 7:47

Hello Erling,
Red soil and golden afternoon side light made a strong impression from this rural country.
The vegetation, not in abundance - but looks very different from usual as we normally see, would not know how to name those.
Anyway, I enjoy the outcome of the composition, cheers.
Good afternoon,
Ike

abmdsudi (95869) 2018-04-25 20:42

Hi Erling
Nice experience you've had unexpectedly; Great warm colours and excellent point of focus there counterpointed by deep blue sky with a magic backdrop! Great landscape and very interesting image. I like the documentary style here, Congrats.
Best regards

macjake (98262) 2018-04-26 0:46

Hi Erling
i have to say, i know nothing about this country! sounds like you were driving here with just you and your family or was it some sort of tour? Must be safe if you did that. Looks to be very far away from any sort of city centre too, but i'm not sure. This kindergarden teacher made the day even better, what a wonderful experience. glad you added her into the WS photos as well. this is the perfect TE post, great work.
cheers
Craig

Nicou (193806) 2018-04-27 2:06

Hello

Avec la projection au sol des ombres quelle compo et vue quelle image et cet ocre sur la terre sueprbe vue et captage cette maisons la vue en fond et les couleur grandiose.
Bravo et amitié
Nicou

PaulVDV (62804) 2018-05-11 11:22

Hello Erling,
A very beautiful picture of the remarkable rondawel buildings in the WS. I also like the photo of that lovely lady.
Even remarkable is the red soil we see on all three pictures. I guess the photos have been taken in the late afternoon seen some long shadows. This will have resulted in a stronger colour contrast.
Yet the soil is unmistakably red.
Excellent clear and sharp presentations.
Best regards, Paul

lucasgalodoido (27698) 2018-06-04 7:06

Hi Erling,
very curious these rural houses, with strange draws, but attractive colors. I like of the landscape and colors too. Great job, my friend.
Regards,
Lucas