HDR Photography
Atop the hills of South Africa, I was reminded of the composition of one of my favorite pictures (of the Bay Area), and the vast changes that I’ve experienced in the seven months since I took that picture. There I was, on the other side of the planet, looking across a veritable (pardon the cliché) Garden of Eden and the little quarry used to build the lovely structures of the adjacent game lodge.
A couple of hours of sleep following intercontinental travel will never be enough to prepare for a herd (or “tower,” technically) of giraffes in the dawn light. From the back of the Millenium Falcon of off-roading Toyotas, the majesty and immediacy were perfectly balanced.
In eastern South Africa, the Zulu-Nyala game reserve offers an array of Hemingway-esque tents. The texture-mixture of stuccoed stone walls on two sides and waterproof nylon on the others makes the perfect rustic/luxurious combination.
(And the view of impala wandering outside the window in the morning didn’t hurt, either.)
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