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🇰🇪 Kenyan Travel & documentary photographer & filmmaker | Used to think I’d be a Lawyer or a pilot | Pun lover | God's son | Gooner| Storyteller | My work👇🏾

Nairobi, Kenya
Joined December 2011
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
Late #PortfolioDay entry but here goes. My name is Peter Ndung’u and I’m a Kenyan travel & documentary photographer 📸 The goal of my body of work is to shed positive light on African nature, wildlife, culture & people.
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Peter Ndung’u
4 months
They’ve arrested @NjeriWaMigwi but she’s a strong one! We continue to #RejectFinanceBill2024
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4 months
We made them bring out all the toys. Don’t say digital activism doesn’t work. #RejectFinanceBill2024
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Peter Ndung’u
5 years
Look, I don’t know about you but I don’t expect Matatus to give me sanitizer if they don’t even give me my change...
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5 years
Measures to prevent spread of #coronavirus ; govt suspends public events, meetings, crusades. Public transport should provide sanitisers for all their clients. - Mutahi Kagwe #coronavirusinKenya
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
Early morning commute in Soysambu, Nakuru. As peaceful as it gets with no traffic in sight.
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Peter Ndung’u
7 years
I love the mayhem that Nairobi rain brings with it. Got drenched following some of it last night in the CBD. #Nairobae
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Peter Ndung’u
7 years
Upperhill rising. The nairobi skyline is slowly becoming one to watch.
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Peter Ndung’u
2 years
4 years & 3 months later, I’m standing in awe of the Northern lights dancing in front of my eyes. It’s midnight, -10 degrees, fingers are numb, there’s snow everywhere, I’m teary, ears hurt, camera is clicking away but I wouldn’t trade this experience for anything else.
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Peter Ndung’u
6 years
I’ve got to see and experience the Northern lights one day with my own eyes. Putting it out there so I can come back to this when it happens. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
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Peter Ndung’u
5 years
Malindi Pier basking in evening light.
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Peter Ndung’u
1 year
Not only did this happen, but I watched the Northern lights from a plane for a whole hour!! 😭😭
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Peter Ndung’u
6 years
I’ve got to see and experience the Northern lights one day with my own eyes. Putting it out there so I can come back to this when it happens. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
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Peter Ndung’u
4 months
Woke up with this statement on my mind “Mnatushika na tunawatetea”… imagine a world where police would let you protest peacefully as they provide security instead of baseless arrests. We will continue to #RejectFinanceBill2024 even for them & their families. ✊🏾
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Peter Ndung’u
2 years
KQ served mbaazi on the flight and the gas wars in the section I was sat in made me feel like using my oxygen mask…
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Peter Ndung’u
4 years
The Samburu are probably my favorite to photograph, always dripping in colour and then serve that with smiles.
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Peter Ndung’u
4 years
Had the rare opportunity to photograph Split nose, one of Mara’s famous leopards climbing down a tree on one afternoon.
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
Turned up at the airport to pick up my significant other who I haven’t seen in a year. Made it clear what I’d prefer....
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Peter Ndung’u
1 year
Scenes from an adrenaline packed morning in Laikipia photographing a Grand Cessna Caravan plane.
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
The liquideep and Micasa days...
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Peter Ndung’u
1 year
The brand team leader said, no need for a name, we’re going to call it as it is.
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
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Peter Ndung’u
6 months
Mother Nature is on a country wide corruption exposé. Every little piece of it is being uncovered overnight.
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
I detest having to ask for my money I’m owed. The constant reminders and then having to even use words like “please” and “kindly” 🤮🤮
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Peter Ndung’u
4 years
Midnight shenanigans in Samburu for a quick self portrait taking advantage of clear skies.
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Peter Ndung’u
2 years
Just got accepted into a filmmaking program I’ve been yearning to be a part of in Austria 🇦🇹, next month! Can’t wait!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾
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Peter Ndung’u
2 years
If you’d have told me 9 years ago I would be talking photography in a panel moderated by National Geographic.. I would have thought you were crazy. Daily reminder to keep chasing them dreams. We’re only just getting started 🚀
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Peter Ndung’u
4 years
A set from one of the most epic places I’ve been to in Kenya- Dragon’s Teeth, a landscape unlike any I’ve seen before here. Cold but well worth the adventure when you see those rock formations.
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Peter Ndung’u
7 years
Do kanjo qualify as #FinePeopleFromKenya because that’s all they do? Fine people.... I’ll show myself out...
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Peter Ndung’u
2 years
My first Christmas as a husband and spending it with the little family I’m building here. Feels very different being away from the folks but an exciting time to begin building traditions of our own.
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Peter Ndung’u
6 years
@EASPORTSFIFA kepa manager card?
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Peter Ndung’u
2 years
Life update: I recently married my best friend and have now officially graduated from the friend zone after 10 years. I have to say, “husband” has a nice ring to it.
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Peter Ndung’u
1 year
Training young & upcoming photographers in Botswana with National Geographic was the highlight of my October. Something I would have only dreamt of when I started photography 10 years ago. I might need another month to process it. We give thanks! 🙏🏾
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
I shot some cars over the weekend and I thoroughly enjoyed it!
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Peter Ndung’u
1 year
Driving through a dust storm in Amboseli 🌪️
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
I’ve got a thing for waterfalls and I’ve always wanted to try an aerial long exposure. Here’s a 1 sec exposure I shot last month.
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Peter Ndung’u
1 year
Flying above Lake Turkana with Central island in the background.
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Peter Ndung’u
5 months
It’s 1 degree outside & I’m currently watching the longest sunset I’ve ever seen. Started at 10:00pm and it’s now past midnight.
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Peter Ndung’u
5 years
Some portraits I shot on a recent trip to Samburu. Had a great time having these women warm up to the camera and share their smiles with me.
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Peter Ndung’u
1 year
School days in Lamu
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Peter Ndung’u
5 years
Wrapped up the craziest trip I’ve done in Kenya so far with an awesome group of people, approx 2000km in the North. From broken windows, car breakdowns, heat, rain, dust, scorpions etc.. itching to see more of this country.
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
Kipchoges 🔥
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Peter Ndung’u
1 year
Rwanda really has this tourism thing locked down. 🔐
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"Not only did I have an experience of a lifetime, I get to have another experience that doubles down on the lifetime experience I just had." 📹 @KevinHart4real enjoyed a memorable trek to see Rwanda's mountain gorillas and named an infant in today's @Kwitaizina . Video credit:
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
Photographed the king munching on an unlucky wildebeest and realized I also don’t like being looked at as I’m eating
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Peter Ndung’u
1 year
A year ago, together with a great team of talented folks and the help of some great mentors, I made my first film. It just bagged its first selection for Best African film at the Pridelands Wildlife Film Festival happening this week @pwffest 🙌🏾🙌🏾
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
“Impala grounds” at sunset in the Mara.
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Peter Ndung’u
2 years
Colours of winter from Reykjavik, Iceland 🇮🇸🏠 ❄️
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Peter Ndung’u
5 years
Curfew from 7pm to 5am Kisii:
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Peter Ndung’u
11 months
Officially at the age of responding “I’m lactose intolerant” to anyone who asks me to “say cheese” #3rdfloor 🎉🍾🎊
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Peter Ndung’u
4 years
9pm curfew means I can finally catch sunsets without worrying about being clobbered.
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Peter Ndung’u
2 years
Winter is here and so is my first time experiencing it. 🥶
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Peter Ndung’u
7 months
“Tukutane hapo nje ya Bata” 📍Bratislava, Slovakia
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Peter Ndung’u
1 year
I picked up a camera 10 years ago as an escape. It later became an addiction and is now my full time life. Wouldn’t have it any other way. Grateful for everyone & everything that’s graced my lenses. Happy #WorldPhotographyDay ! Long live the art!
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Peter Ndung’u
2 years
GM! Nairobi weather has me nostalgic of foggy hikes, especially in the Aberdares.
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Peter Ndung’u
6 years
Walked into a supermarket yesterday looking for sugar, couldn’t find anything on the shelves. Asked one of the attendants and he replied, “Hii Kenya unafaa tu utafute Utamu wa Yesu”...
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
Wife secured ✅
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
Today will be a good day!
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Peter Ndung’u
6 years
Self timer coming in handy when you’re alone in a desert with no one to take pictures of you.😁
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Peter Ndung’u
6 years
Clouds came down on Chogoria on one cold morning last week.
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Peter Ndung’u
4 months
Went to an orchestra concert in Vienna last night and my goodness, for a free entry gig, the production, light show, sound and organisation was so so good!
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Peter Ndung’u
6 years
Namibia’s unending dunes make you feel insignificant. Landscapes of this magnitude make me happy.
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Peter Ndung’u
11 months
Last night was wild! Watched a Jude Bellingham masterclass & 6 goal thriller from the VIP section of the Bernabéu with a stranger who offered me a free ticket to watch the game with his family because one of them wasn’t able to make it. Gonna need a while to recover from this! 🙏🏾
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Peter Ndung’u
4 months
Amazing how this psychopath manages to display multiple personalities. Comparing the guy addressing the country now vs the one who called us treasonous criminals you would think they’re entirely different people!
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
Tried some slow shutter panning shots at the Safari rally. I’ll save you the 300 other shots that didn’t go as planned, so let’s work with these. Which one’s your favourite?
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Peter Ndung’u
4 months
Window seat, always.
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
Kenyans doing big things! Thandiwe Muriu’s image from her Camo series on the iPad mini display at the #AppleEvent !!!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
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Peter Ndung’u
7 months
March has been an intense but very blessed month. After a year of pre production, I went on my first National Geographic assignment. A lifelong dream come true! Can’t wait for when it’s finally out sometime next year!
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Peter Ndung’u
8 months
Hello March, looking forward to finally kicking off the biggest project of my career. Be good to us please 🙏🏾
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
Set up my camera and hit record for about an hour as the rain stopped pouring and made this.
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3 years
Saturday night lights in Nairobi. 🌩⚡️ Caught this flash of lightning on my phone when it started pouring.
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Peter Ndung’u
4 years
Uhuru’s ability to make it look and sound like he’s not the guy who was holding BBI rallies is one I have to applaud! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Peter Ndung’u
4 years
Watching 2 big boys scope the plains as the sun set before they went hunting in the Mara last week was a highlight.
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Peter Ndung’u
4 years
Rhumba ya Mara.....
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Peter Ndung’u
4 years
Terribly, terribly late to the #NationalGeographicChallenge but here‘s to manifesting some covers in the future.
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Peter Ndung’u
1 year
Strolling in the Chalbi Desert.
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Peter Ndung’u
6 years
For the last day of 2018, I’m giving away a couple of wallpapers from images I’ve shot this year. Enjoy! 🙌🏾
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Peter Ndung’u
9 months
I photographed the cover story for the Jan & Feb issue of Selamta, the Ethiopian Airlines in flight magazine ft Samburu’s elephant guardians. If you’re on an ET flight soon, would love for you to check it out! If not, you can read the story on the link below: 👇🏾
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Peter Ndung’u
2 months
Yesterday was a literal dream. Photographed a Formula 1 car on track and I’m still shaking from the experience.
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Peter Ndung’u
4 months
Some of the force that was on display at the #RejectFinanceBill2024 protest yesterday.
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Peter Ndung’u
2 years
The onset of rain is providing some much needed relief for farmers after several failed rainy seasons. Photographed during planting season in Busia.
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Peter Ndung’u
7 years
Mt. Kenya in all her glory on a freezing Sunday morning in @lewa_wildlife conservancy.
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Peter Ndung’u
1 year
“I hope this email finds you well” Sent from the beach
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
Some images I took over the weekend at Ragia Forest in the Aberdares. ⛰ Plenty of bamboo & ferns.
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Peter Ndung’u
4 years
Perfect end to the day on sundowner rock, Samburu.
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Peter Ndung’u
7 months
Adventures in Northern Kenya, walking and flying low over a very dry Lake Logipi
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Peter Ndung’u
1 year
So you need to get a reimportation certificate from customs before leaving Kenya with equipment but when you get to the office they’re asleep and the “system isn’t working”… 🤦🏾‍♂️
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Peter Ndung’u
5 years
Today, a close family friend is being laid to rest with very few family & friends by his side. That was yesterday’s 10th confirmed Covid 19 death. A man of great character & supportive to those around him, he was bound to attract hundreds on his final journey....
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
📍 Segera Retreat, I enjoyed shooting at this place so much. Link to full video
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Peter Ndung’u
2 years
Cape Town sunsets over the Atlantic are a must see especially from a high view point.
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Peter Ndung’u
6 months
Happy #EarthDay 🌍 Flamingos taking flight above the saline alkaline waters of Lake Logipi in Northern Kenya. Photographed from a doors off R66 Turbine heli. Such a thrilling experience to see these beautiful birds flying up close.
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Peter Ndung’u
2 years
Night photography in Cape Town watching traffic flow and all the lights from ships coming in and out of the harbour.
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Peter Ndung’u
4 years
Reading the room is one of those underrated skills that’ll save you a lot of trouble
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Peter Ndung’u
5 months
Finished my Finnish adventure! 🙌🏾 Had one of the best experiences of my career over the past one month. Will be sharing them over on my IG soon. For now, time for some rest and some much needed sleep!
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
So 1 month was all we needed to shut the country down, borrow & now we’re back to business? No capacity building for hospitals to ensure this doesn’t happen again? Make it make sense.
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Peter Ndung’u
2 years
Cape Town lighting up at dusk is beautiful to watch and a joy to photograph.
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Peter Ndung’u
1 year
Turned up at immigration with an envelope full of support documents. Guy asks for my passport and what I’m carrying in the envelope. I reply, “Extra documents in case you need them.” He looks at me and laughs then processes me in 2 mins & I’m free to go. Welcome to America.
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Peter Ndung’u
2 years
Frames from Iceland. My first time experiencing a snow storm. ❄️
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Peter Ndung’u
4 years
Miss being on this road heading up to Northern Kenya, one of my favorite destinations in the country.
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4 years
Flight mode at the Mara River during the great migration. Shot on the #EOSR6
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Peter Ndung’u
3 years
When the light and morning conditions are just right. Shot in📍Moiben, Rift Valley, Kenya
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Peter Ndung’u
7 years
Sometimes in life you're privileged to be attending the launch of a phone you can't afford. 😄 #iPhoneXKE
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Peter Ndung’u
1 year
Just your normal Friday in the bush
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Peter Ndung’u
4 years
Standing underneath giants. Neck massage was needed after taking this picture.
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