Canolas in Swellendam

[Martin Kellermann]

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

[Jakov Minić]

Martin, these are lovely. What a spectacular place!

[Thomas G]

Nicely done. It's not only the bees who have to make their choices. Spectacular landscape.

[ArthurDent]

Very nice, I like your use of single point perspective in the last two to draw the viewer's eye into the image.

[Ann]

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.

[Peter Connan]

Stunning series, but I find the second one especially pleasing!

[Martin Kellermann]

Thanks for all the comments. This is what I really enjoy about NG. Martin