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Hello all,

Some landscape shots from my trip to Southern Africa. The choice was hard because it's such an amazing country for landscape photography. But this selection gives an idea of the possibilities... All EXIF should be in the images.

Keetmanshoop:





Damaraland:



Sandwich Harbour:



Sossuvlei:





Deadvlei:



Along road D707:



Enjoy,

C&C welcome!!

Wim

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Wim

All marvellous of course!

Like the unusual composition of #1 and love the penultimate and antepenultimate shots .. fence seems somewhat incongruous !
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Ishpuini said:
Some landscape shots from my trip to Southern Africa. The choice was
hard because it's such an amazing country for landscape photography.
But this selection gives an idea of the possibilities... All EXIF
should be in the images.

Keetmanshoop:
http://www.ishpuini.be/Gallery/albums/KaapNamib2008/02-1.jpg

http://www.ishpuini.be/Gallery/albums/KaapNamib2008/03-1.jpg
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These first two look unreal.

It's a theme park isn't it?

;-]

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Well, more brilliant images, Wim!

All wonderful, but these are exceptional:

Sossuvlei:

What a wonderful capture of the dired up lake bed, the light is PERFECT . You must have waited to get it just right!

The sand dunes are a great composition.

Deadvlei:
Great composition showing the starkness of the landscape.

Along road D707:
Great leading lines!

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koka said:
All very interesting, thanks for posting!
  1. 1 - what a landscape!
  1. last - instantly played well with me. Unusual and nice combination
off colours...
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I did intensify the blue a bit by putting a blue gradient in Lightroom. I wonder whether I didn't overdo it...

Tx!

Wim

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calum mhor said:
--Truly fantastic shots of the countries raw interior and it looks
like you visited Sossusvlei.
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Thanks! Yes, Sossusvlei (and not Sossuvlei as I mistyped...) was an amazing place. Our guide took us later rather than earlier during the day, so as a result we had the place almost to ourselves. Most tourists seem to go in the NP for the sunrise... Esp on the pan of Deadvlei I was the only human being when taking my pictures as my wife was sitting next to the pan talking to the guide waiting for me to do my thing... ;-)

Wim

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chris gunn said:
These first two look unreal.

It's a theme park isn't it?
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Thanks Gunn!

I thought the same first too. These quiver trees are pretty common in the wild throughout Namibia, but there's no other groups as closely together as these as most trees stand solitary. I remained convinced that the farm owners planted them for tourists until a week later a lodge owner at another place told us about the age of these trees. They had a small one (about 70cm high max) on their property that had been there since they moved in 8 years earlier. It had grown 10cm during over those years. Transplanting them doesn't work. So it seems the forest is natural after all, unless some early settler anticipated tourism in the 18th century?

The rock collection in the second picture is on the same property about 5km away from the forest in the first picture. These types of rock collections are more common in the area, but most they are not accessible from the road and this one is. The Quiver Tree Rest Camp, which is the place where you can visit both places, is a nice place to stay at when coming from South Africa into Namibia as we did, and it offers these stunning places to stretch the legs after a long drive.

Wim

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Michael Henn said:
Great series Wim, hope you enjoyed our part of the world. My
favourites were #5, #7 and #8.

Did you manage to undestand our language ... it's very close to
flemish (unless of course your from the french parts).

Thanks again for sharing.

Michael
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Thanks Michael, it's an amazing area!!! We'll probably go back there someday...

Yes we did have a go at Afrikaans since we are indeed Flemish speaking. Well... we understood and managed to be understood, provided both parties spoke articulately and not too fast.

It was a strange change for us as we are accustomed to be able to speak Flemish between us and not be understood by anyone else. A practical thing when travelling as sometimes we want to consult among ourselves before deciding on things and we don't always want people around us to know what we're saying... ;-)

Wim

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