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Some of my images and the story of Kolmaskop.
Africa Namib Desert.In Kolmanskop, the sand-filled buildings of a former diamond mining town attract tourists by the thousands.
Brightly colored wallpaper peeling off the walls, dilapidated houses now inundated in rolling banks of sand … this is Kolmanskop, a ghost town in southern A…Read More
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Jacques van der Westhuizen posted in the group Architectural Photography
The Triumphal Arch at Hartebeespoort Dam.
The inscription on the arch reads:
sine aqua arida ac misera agri cultura (“without water agriculture is dray and harsh”)On the other side of the Arch the following abbreviated inscription of Isaiah 43: 19-21 can be found:
dedi in deserto aquas flumina in invio (“The beasts of the field, the serpents…Read More
