For the past few weeks, we’ve been hosting very special friends from South America, Nic and… Nic! As part of their “Welcome to South Africa” package, we organised a road trip to Swaziland to show them “the real Africa”.
This was also a great opportunity to get out of the city (which is a hive of activity with the 2010 World Cup Soccer celebrations), discover new places, and get some new textures for my Texture Library.
The weekend was jam-packed with activities and sight-seeing, with photo expeditions squished in between. Here are a few of my scapes with new Swazi textures, some of them… admittedly… taken from the car window while traveling 120km/hour! (Thank goodness for fast shutter speeds!)
The rest of the images from the weekend can be viewed on Facebook.
More of my travel and landscape photography can be viewed here.
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Most impressive. I love the textures that you’ve introduced into these photos.
Thanks! I’m going for a more “fine art” feel to my work. The scratchy texture creates a more vintage feel.
Definitely!
Very nice contrasts…. makes me long for someone or something…
Thanks L’zeri! Nostalgia… that’s the emotion I was going for!
Fantastic range of landscapes. Brilliant photography!
Thanks Julian! With beautiful Swaziland surroundings, it’s not hard to take a pretty landscape photo ;-)
Love it, it seems you were inspired in Swaziland… I recently went there with a photographer friend my self. I have to admit, it was most inspiring. You are so talented dude.
Lol, Nic! These photos were from that trip we took to Swaziland together ;-)