When driving through Namibia (and those who have done this will agree) it feels as though one is moving closer towards the end of the world. The landscapes become so surreal, arid, and vast that they make you feel minute with a sense of complete humility and admiration of nature’s powerful capabilities.
This picture was taken at the Bogenfels, located in the coastal Namib Desert within the restricted Diamond-Area.
A view from above (thanks to Google Earth) will give you a good idea of the lands’ steep drop off into the ocean.
I’ve been going through some old RAW images of mine, in order to re-use them to produce some HDR images.
I didn’t use auto-bracketing for this HDR effect, instead I used a single RAW file and saved three variations of it. I’m not convinced that this is the best way of producing effective HDR images, even though I really like the results.
Read this chapter I found on Google Books about this church, which situated on a hill in Lüderitz. It a very prominent church as one can see it from every point within the town.
Whilst traveling through Namibia as a kid I clearly remember seeing the wild feral horses of the Namib Desert, and ever since I related that image with the country. These horses are exceptionally beautiful, elegant, and of course wild, and that is definitive of Namibia!
This photo (taken many years later) has re-awakened my child-hood memories of that unforgettable trip.
It is not known how long the Namib Desert Feral Horses have lived on an area covering approximately 350 square kilometres in the Namib Desert, but local speculate they have been there since ‘German times’. » Continue Reading…
Inside an old pump room situated in the Sperrgebiet, a diamond mining area in south-western Namibia.
