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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: Martin Kellermann on September 02, 2017, 08:28:40

Title: Canolas in Swellendam
Post by: Martin Kellermann on September 02, 2017, 08:28:40
The Canolas are in full bloom in the Swellendam area of South Africa. Getting some compositional elements within the vast expanses of yellow is quite a challenge as is getting the exposure right. But it is great fun trying to do so. The farmers are generally very friendly if asked whether we can get into their lands to take photographs, especially when you promise to send them a few. I wonder what a bee thinks when it is confronted by the overabundance of flowers? Martin
Title: Re: Canolas in Swellendam
Post by: Jakov Minić on September 02, 2017, 08:43:04
Martin, these are lovely. What a spectacular place!
Title: Re: Canolas in Swellendam
Post by: Thomas G on September 02, 2017, 09:28:52
Nicely done. It's not only the bees who have to make their choices. Spectacular landscape.
Title: Re: Canolas in Swellendam
Post by: ArthurDent on September 03, 2017, 10:31:39
Very nice, I like your use of single point perspective in the last two to draw the viewer's eye into the image.
Title: Re: Canolas in Swellendam
Post by: Ann on September 03, 2017, 18:12:16
Terrific photographs of a spectacular place.

I have been fortunate to have made nine separate visits to southern Africa over the last ten years — usually for many weeks at a time — and from the Cape to the Zambezi (by western and eastern routes and meandering up the middle through the Karoo too)!

I experience something new, beautiful and wonderful every time that I go there and find it astonishing that so few people have any idea of the beauty and grandeur of the South African landscape.
Title: Re: Canolas in Swellendam
Post by: Peter Connan on September 03, 2017, 19:27:02
Stunning series, but I find the second one especially pleasing!
Title: Re: Canolas in Swellendam
Post by: Martin Kellermann on September 04, 2017, 20:20:28
Thanks for all the comments. This is what I really enjoy about NG. Martin