georg.schmidt
The Smoke That Thunders
When David Livingstone first stood at those spectacular cataracts on the Zambezi River, he decided to name this breathtaking natural wonder Victoria Falls in honor of his Queen. However, the actual name of these falls in Tonga language is Mosi-oa-Tunya, which means The Smoke that Thunders. If you approach the falls from a distance, and then finally stand at the giant abyss on the Zimbabwean side of the falls, you immediately understand that there could be no more appropriate name for this natural spectacle.
Though I was extremely impressed, I was slightly disappointed when I arrived at the falls, since the sky was cloudy, and hence the legendary rainbow above the falls has not been present at that time. Later, when all others have already given up and I also was about leaving the falls, the clouds ripped apart for a very short moment, and the most gorgeous rainbow I can image spanned across the falls. I took a view quick shots without thinking about the settings of my camera, before I started mounting a polarizer and carefully setting up my camera. In the moment when I was finished with this and was about pressing the trigger, I saw the rainbow fading and vanishing through the viewfinder.
The Smoke That Thunders
When David Livingstone first stood at those spectacular cataracts on the Zambezi River, he decided to name this breathtaking natural wonder Victoria Falls in honor of his Queen. However, the actual name of these falls in Tonga language is Mosi-oa-Tunya, which means The Smoke that Thunders. If you approach the falls from a distance, and then finally stand at the giant abyss on the Zimbabwean side of the falls, you immediately understand that there could be no more appropriate name for this natural spectacle.
Though I was extremely impressed, I was slightly disappointed when I arrived at the falls, since the sky was cloudy, and hence the legendary rainbow above the falls has not been present at that time. Later, when all others have already given up and I also was about leaving the falls, the clouds ripped apart for a very short moment, and the most gorgeous rainbow I can image spanned across the falls. I took a view quick shots without thinking about the settings of my camera, before I started mounting a polarizer and carefully setting up my camera. In the moment when I was finished with this and was about pressing the trigger, I saw the rainbow fading and vanishing through the viewfinder.