Thinking Aloud: collages

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Monday, December 13, 2010

Succlent Rose

To me the gorgeous Echevaria looks like another form of a rose. In fact I'm convinced

that some people refer to these succulents as "desert rose" but, I may be wrong ....

...the shape and almost delicate look about them ....

and not only do they remind me of a rose, I think they go well with roses too, even

through technically speaking they are on opposite ends of the plant spectrum ....

I was "playing" around, as I like to do... and put this collage together ..... now tell me

they don't look good together!?

A macro Monday post here and here

Flowers Today post

Mosaic Monday post

Sunday, April 25, 2010

In honour of a great pilgrimage

A couple of weekends ago I was out in Pretoria (capital city of South Africa) and
noticed the Voortrekker monument up on the hill .... I had not been there since
high school, which if truth be told, was a very, very long time ago .....

Camera in hand, off I went.

I spent a great afternoon there in the tranquil nature reserve type gardens
enjoying the scenery and the fascinating history and architechure.

This first image (above) is taken inside the actual monument (see image below) where

the late afternoon sun was shining through the latticed glass panels

in a vibrant golden hue, creating both reflections and shadows

onto the marbled floor.

a view of the Monument on the hill (quite literally)

This monumnet commemorates the pioneers who travelled from the

coastal areas inlands between 1835 and 1855 -

this trip was called "The Great Trek".

During this time approximately 15,000 pioneers moved inlands to establish the

provinces of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal, effectively the start of

South Africa as it was to become.

an outside shot of the stone/ brick work, bathed in afternoon sunshine,

creating soft shadows ....

an afternoon garden view - the monument is surrounded

by a round wall mimicking a circle of oxwagons,

which in fact are carved onto the wall ....

the real thing ... an old oxwagon ...

a gorgeous strelitzia growing the well kept gardens

view more Weekend Reflections here

more Scenic Sunday here

and more Shadow shot here

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Melon Rouge

Autumn and Spring have the most marked changes in terms of lighting,

colours, details (in my mind anyway), so it's a time when I start

pondering all the wonderful places to visit in order to capture

the great detail that nature provides.

In my planning I was thinking to spend a day over in Magaliesburg (about
an hour out of Johannesburg) visiting some of the wonderful places there,
and it reminded me of the review I did on Melon Rouge entitled

"Kick off Your Shoes" last May - link here.
And that ... brought me to post a collection of images from
that outing ..... enjoy!!!