Mountain Gorillas / by Ross Johnson

One of my galleries contains photographs of mountain gorillas.  I took those photos in 1995 when  I was serving as the head of intelligence with the second UN mission in Rwanda.  Several of us from the Canadian Contingent climbed Karisoke, a volcano in Rwanda on the border with Uganda, to see the gorillas that Dian Fossey made famous in 'Gorillas in the Mist.'  It was an amazing day, and I shot a roll of ISO 1600 Kodak film.  It was processed in Nairobi, Kenya, and I kept the negatives.  I had them transferred to digital at McBain Camera, and after a little work in Lightroom, the best of the bunch are in the gallery.  These photos are the only film photographs  on my website.