iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Low tide. Sound of Jura. Argyll.

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Electric vehicle production could soon start in Kenya. (From the other place) "Kenya has signed a Sh390 billion deal with Endelevu Enterprise Corporation to develop electric vehicles locally. The project will include vehicle assembly plants, 1,000 solar-powered charging hubs and a digital platform."

000

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Paps of Jura, seen from Craignish. Argyll, Scotland. I haven't been back here in Autumn for quite a while, I am enjoying the soft damp of it immensely. It also means I am avoiding the last of the long hot dusty wait for the rains to arrive in northern Kenya.

010

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Have you looked up the last couple of nights? The moon has been very bright. The moon is always bright in Kenya, but here in Argyll there is often so much cloud I forget the moon is even there. Not so over this last full moon period however, which has coincided with a spell of good weather.

000

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The low pressure system is passing us by to the west and the worst of the wind is out beyond those islands. Even so is a bit breezy here this afternoon, with some strong gusts, and the light is moody. Argyll, Scotland.

032

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today was dreich! Which of course is not uncommon in Argyll. Until about 5pm, when the sun came out and everything was lit up with golden light and the colours of autumn. Lovely.

010

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Muddy, and a little bit grumpy. Stand well back. Ngare Ndare Forest. Meru County. Kenya.

010

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A June evening in Argyll, Scotland. Just before 10pm, waiting for the sun to set.

010

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Already this year a town in northern Kenya, Mandera, has recorded the highest ever June temperature in the country. Now we have an El Niño, and while climate changes make the impacts less predictable, we can be fairly sure it's just going to get hotter.

110

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A perfect, calm summer evening in the Sound of Jura on the west coast of Scotland.

A boat on a flat calm sea, with a rocky island and land in the distance.

000

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This is peak wildflower time on the west coast of Scotland. The early flowers, like primroses, are still out, the later ones, such as this sea pink, are just getting into their stride.

010

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The rains have come early this year, very early. Here, on the equator, weather and the seasons used to be predictable to within a day or two. Now they are out by up to a month, or no longer have recognizable patterns. #climatechange #Kenya #Africa

020

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

An elephant, a sunset and the Ewaso Nyiro river. Bliss. #Kenya

040

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah sworn in as Namibia’s first female president aje.io/nny36f

000

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The volcanic landscape of the lower part of the Nyambene Hills. Scoria cones galore! Very arid, but rain showers in the distance hint that in a few weeks the yellow could turn to green (for a short while). Meru County, #Kenya

000

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Looking north from the volcanic slopes of the Nyambene Hills. Beyond the scoria cones in the forground are the hills of Shaba National Reserve and in the far distance is Ololokwe and Warges in Samburu County. #Kenya

010

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Laikipia is so beautiful sometimes that it looks fake. It's not, I was there, feeling like I was in some fantasy land! #Laikipia #Kenya #adventuretravel

000

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Elephant crossing! This road takes you all the way through the northern half of Kenya to the border with Ethiopia at Moyale. It has improved travel times and ease of transportation enormously, but it has also impacted wildlife in the area. #wildlife #conservation #Kenya #adventure #photography

080

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Bringing the goats home. Good night Bluesky. #Isiolo #Kenya

020

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It's hard work being a camel. Isiolo County, #Kenya

000

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Travelling in northern Kenya during the rainy season (now) takes a lot of time, patience, a shovel and (hopefully) a packet of biscuits.

011

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

For everyone who is feeling the cold today. #Samburu #Kenya

141

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Rainy season travel in northern Kenya. This is a good road, most cause more problems during the rains. #roadtrip #Kenya

010

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The beautiful deep blue of a desert sky as the sun sets, the last rays turning the land golden. Samburu, Northern Kenya.

041

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Dramatic clouds bringing rain to #Laikipia in #Kenya. Though the once regular seasonal patterns are becoming increasingly erratic here as they are everywhere.

030

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

The American elections are disconcerting. The world has become so small that even in the wilder parts of the globe, far flung from the USA, these noisy, worrying elections are taking over our thoughts and sending out waves of stress. Marsabit County, northern #Kenya

020

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

People are doing awful things in the world right now, but we have already done the most awful thing of all... climate breakdown.

100

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Not in a park, not in a reserve. It is getting harder and harder to find cats outside of these places though. Too many people, too many dangers (people are always the main danger). Samburu County. #northernKenya #lions #wildlife #conservation #adventure #Kenya

050

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Looking across the plains to #Isiolo town, which is nestled at the base of the Isiolo hills. The photograph is taken from the slopes of one of the many cinder cones that spill off the Nyambeni hills in #Meru County. #northernKenya #adventures

010

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Meru County has been working hard on improving it's roads, with many tarmac roads even in the remoter parts of the county. It really puts neighbouring Isiolo County to shame. #development #Isiolo #Meru #northernKenya

010

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

The Great East African Rift Valley, as seen from near Porro. About an hours drive north from Maralal in Samburu County. I think this is my favourite place to view the Rift Valley, a spectacular 1000m drop and wild lands as far as the eye can see. #adventure #travel #Kenya

231

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,313,817!

000

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Not in a park, not in a reserve. There are places in Kenya where they still roam the land as they always have. These places are shrinking though. The voracious human appetite, to own, use, destroy, and most of all, not to share, is crowding them out. #Kenya #wildlife #elephants #spaceforgiants

010

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

New energy old problems. It might be renewable, but it is still a big money energy enterprise. So far the Lake Turkana Wind Farm has had a very checkered history in its relationship with the local community. The oil mentality lives on in corporate greed #windfarms #energy #Kenya

100

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Sibiloi National Park and the origin of mankind, this way….. Northern Kenya has so much to offer visitors, but lacks infrastructure, facilities and sadly it is often lacking adequate security too. New roads are helping to open it up, new investment is needed in education and training.

000

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Lunch time gossip! At Olng'arua School in northern Kenya. www.darefoundation.com #education #Kenya

010

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

This is a hillside in Meru County, Kenya. Currently there is plenty of grass on the plains, but you can see the effect that over grazing by too many animal have had on these hills. #livestock #soilerosion #vegetation #conservation #healthyplanet #Kenya

000

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Kenya has wonderful geology. The scoria cones that spill off the flanks of Mount Kenya (itself an extinct volcano) look very striking against the arid plains. The second picture is of the inside of one of the cones, see the people and livestock for scale. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinder_... #Kenya

020

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

Fantastic! Why can't every council put a little more flower and a little less wanton destruction (err mowing) into their management plan.

000

Emma Redfern @emmaredfern.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

Long-tailed Widow Bird, Laikipia, #Kenya

000