In this week’s challenge it is as if Ben (while clearly enjoying a landscape) steers us away from merely placing our current favourite photo (which may for instance be of a landscape) in favour of a narrow focus. Indeed he calls us up not to be narrow-minded in narrowing our focus…
I have no qualms in linking a landscape with this theme. On the farm Muldersbank, in the Volmoed area close to Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, South Africa; I tiptoed with my camera out of the house as everybody (but my body) was still sleeping. It was still dark and quite cold being the middle of winter, but then the early photographer gets the early image. I was not to be disappointed – in fact I was quite exhilarated. Even before the sunrise I could see the massive expanse of clouds hanging in an almost perfect 180 degree line across the sky. As the sun rose it is as if the world was squashed into the narrow line between the horizon and the clouds.
When it became lighter the focus changed from contrasted orange and black hues to detail pinned into the ruler-like image across the sky. I felt alive and blessed to experience the coldness on my skin, the sound of the birds in my ears and viewing the majestic expanse of beautiful narrowness. Which one do you prefer?
My previous contributions:
An inconvenient partnership (Buffalo and Tickbird)
opposing democracy – democratizing opponents (Parliament and a cathedral)
Look up to my lens Table Mountain (Table mountain and cable car)
a study in ice and snow (Photos from the coldest place in South Africa)
in the middle of Africa with a chacma baboon on top (what is stated with a twist)
Shew, nature really furnished you with tailor-made scenes for this prompt. Great pics Abrie.
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Thanks Hester yes it was quite amazing to get up and see the clouds hanging. I am thinking of doing a second post went hiking today and have amazing pictures of 2nd waterfall Jonkershoek, squashed in between cliffs
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Go for it. A good number of participants in these challenges post more than one entry.
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Sjoe die een is mooier as die ander en ek kan nie kies nie. Welgedaan!
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Baie dankie darem samewerking van natuur gehad!
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Dis waar, maar dis goed raakgesien … dis eintlik ‘n moeilike onderwerp
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Het darem opgestaan in winter in vakansie toe almal nog geslaap het
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hehehehe … jy laat my lag! Ek het mos gesê WELGEDAAN en ek het dit bedoel!
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Beautiful compositions.
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Thank you very much I am actually unsure if the compositions are in G or F minor 😉
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These photos make me happy so I’d say they were in a major key. 🙂
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🙂
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Beautiful photos! Incredible sunlight!
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Thank you Amy
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Great shots…beautiful too.
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Thank you very much Mary I really enjoyed taking them despite the cold. And went I went back to house the coffee tasted excellent (and the sunrise was floating in it) :). An double thank you for the follow.
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Beautiful sequence, Abrie. I love them all — each can stand on its own making an individual statement and are even more powerful grouped together. Well done!
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Thank you Lindy – it took me a while to select these 5 given the the freedom digital photography gives us these days to press the button
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Beautiful sunsets. Genius idea for this challenge.
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Thank you AK (and thought only my mother thought I was a genius 🙂 ) Sometimes getting out of bed early makes you a genius! Appreciate your comment
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Truly majestic. I love the last image, where you can see the mountains from between the clouds.
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Ek snak na my asem…ongelooflike mooi foto’s,Abrie!
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Baie dankie Dina soos jy weet heg ek waarde aan jou opinie (aan die ander mense s’n ook maar ons weet mos hoe lyk die wesp se fotos).
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Nou is ek ook jaloers op jou…ons is nou kwits…of hoe spel mens dit tog?
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Maak nie saak nie – solank ons net weet hoe om die komposisie te doen, dalk een of twee verstellings te kan doen en (vir die tipe fotos wat ek en jy neem dink ek dit is nogal belangrik) onsself by ‘n plek te kry met dinge wat afneembaar is.
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Deesdae is daar soveel foto’s van dieselfde soort goed,dat mens eintlik kreatief moet dink om iets nuuts te skep.Ek oorweeg dit om nou meer mal goed aan te vang met photoshop,maar ek weet nie of dit aftrek sal kry nie!
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Ek is nie photoshopper nie maar gaan mal!
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Ek hou ook van die egte foto’s,maar soms raak dit afgesaag!
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Sun City and all the rest have no strip show to compare! Quite amazing.
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Certainly not!
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A really beautiful take on the prompt. Love it.
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Thank you very much
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Dis vrek mooi… en slim foto’s wat die tema nogal goed pas… in ‘n anderste manier! 😉
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Baie dankie – ek het die naweek gaan stap saam met vriende. 2de waterval Jonkershoek was amazing. Mens beweeg deur Narrow kloof en kom dan by katedraalagtige kom waarin die waterval val.
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Jonkershoek! Nou verlang ek … sterk! Ai… dis so lank terug wat ek daar gestape en geswem het! En ‘n student van Skellembos probeer vly het… en ‘n bietjie Kaapse rooi geniet het… ai, ek verlang! 😉
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That does it gaan vir die eerste keer 2 posts plaas vir photo challenge (omdat ek jou nog meer wil laat verlang natuurlik)!
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Dankie broer… my jaloesie sal teen jou boekie by gelas word! 😉
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Terloops al die dinge wat jy hier bo noem is natuurlik edele kwaliteite 🙂
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