DPC | Digital Photography Courses | Jacques van der Westhuizen | Favourites https://digitalphotographycourses.com/members-directory/jaxson/activity/favorites/ Activity feed of Jacques van der Westhuizen's favourites. Tue, 12 May 2026 08:24:24 +0200 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 1bf11df8808c8746259a804d059e3e6e Albertus van jaarsveld posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/39422/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:18:30 +0200

Hi I took this really cool shot last year in Moremi Botswana and I finally found some time to edit and I think it looks really cool. I would like to know how this picture makes everyone feel 🙂
I still do not know what to name it, any suggestions?

Canon R10
Sigma 150-600mm
ISO 320
F 8.0
1/1250 sec.

#WildlifePhotography
#BirdPhotography
#Avian…Read More

]]> 0 6874e2c58841cddcf52c63d48c7f15b6 Bruna Mentrup posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/39354/ Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:38:31 +0200

#wildlife photography
#avian photography

Depth of field for sharp focus depends on several factors, including the focal length of the lens and the selected aperture. As you increase your aperture number (go from a small number/wide open aperture to a higher number/small aperture opening) your depth of field for a given situation will…Read More
]]> 0 1294f6c3aa5fbe77b48652df826b18ae DPC wrote a new post https://digitalphotographycourses.com/?p=44967 Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:52:42 +0200 c4eb7165b8d393479ed4a5bc930e30eb Luke Brouwers posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/39208/ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:37:48 +0200

It has been quite a while since I have posted here . Here are some of my favorite Minimalism photos.

#Minimalism2025 and #MinimalistPhotography
]]> 0 cf9ff42fb42c9f5cee45feee7e743829 Renate Laaks posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/39128/ Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:22:16 +0200

Hadeda chicks

This Hadeda family calls our garden home. They love to sit on the garden wall in the late afternoon to preen. They do an amazing job to control the insect population as is evident from the mud on their beaks. Some people harbour ill feeling towards these birds because of their load call. I find them fascinating and they are quite…Read More

]]> 1 1293c98fcd2fe7158bad48594272a2a2 Monochromatic portraiture that emphasizes mood, intimacy, and the dialogue between light and shadow. Who knew homework could look this dramatic? https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/39112/ Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:02:26 +0200

Monochromatic portraiture that emphasizes mood, intimacy, and the dialogue between light and shadow.
Who knew homework could look this dramatic?

]]> 0 8191c47f6fc388f61f6c21fab887c38c https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/39086/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:14:43 +0200 1 f6783769c4681593283d714e3fb8a196 Idonette posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/39035/ Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:52:35 +0200

Where absence speaks louder than presence.
#Minimalism2025 #MinimalistPhotography

]]> 0 f07e5601123a42ffa490ed2b711b7fc1 Bruna Mentrup posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/38227/ Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:43:33 +0200

Kolmanskop is a famous ghost town in the Namib Desert of southern Namibia that rose to prominence during a 1908 diamond rush and was eventually reclaimed by the desert.
The Diamond Discovery (1908)
The town’s story began when Zacharias Lewala, a railway worker, found a “shiny stone” while shoveling sand off the tracks near LĂĽderitz. He gave…Read More
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]]> 0 57efe664ed00f61b1bad7ad29fdb8cae Inspired by Rembrandt, the painter, whose mastery of light and shadow gave us portraits that remain dramatic, moody, and eternal... I sought to echo his unique style, photographing sunflowers under the gentle glow of soft candlelight. https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/38164/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:18:06 +0200

Inspired by Rembrandt, the painter, whose mastery of light and shadow gave us portraits that remain dramatic, moody, and eternal… I sought to echo his unique style, photographing sunflowers under the gentle glow of soft candlelight.

]]> 3 8546e156cae7447399e82a81de5571f5 Rob Brewer posted an update in the group Portrait Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/38005/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:41:09 +0200

A few portraits taken recently in studio – Playing with different lighting set-up’s and modifiers – We had some great fun
]]> 0 7ffc24ed93ec4feaafdb2ace59092d72 Rob Brewer posted an update in the group Black and White Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/38004/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:36:41 +0200

Took these recently in Studio – Playing with different modifiers and lighting options – Was lots of fun

#BlackAndWhitePhotography
#BNWPhotography
#Monochrome
]]> 0 fa9918bd79eac813e3cf19bb9f079309 Jako Poolman posted an update in the group Street Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/38003/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:34:39 +0200

Welcome to Mars! Played around with a red filter, and love these semi-post-apocalyptic images. Shot with a Canon R8, RF35mm with a red filter.
– “Mr Pet” EXIF: 1/125, 100, 5.6
– “Creeping Sun” EXIF: 1/800, 400, 5.6

#StreetPhotography #Monochromatic
]]> 0 52c6c03c4920531477eb041fd97e1e3c Still figuring out who I am behind the lens—and loving the freedom to explore. This shot felt like a small breakthrough: well composed, creatively charged, and edited with intention in Lightroom Classic. Grateful for the space to experiment and grow. I would love your feedback on what's working and what could be refined. https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/37831/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:19:39 +0200

Still figuring out who I am behind the lens—and loving the freedom to explore. This shot felt like a small breakthrough: well composed, creatively charged, and edited with intention in Lightroom Classic. Grateful for the space to experiment and grow.
I would love your feedback on what’s working and what could be refined.

]]> 1 cf58a4e57b733d24bab959513d25f5fb Colleen Francis posted an update in the group Travel and Landscape Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/37807/ Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:11:49 +0200

The people of Nababeep
#TravelPhotography
]]> 0 194ed7ac241dfff5ed438648158df72f Pieter Uys wrote a new post https://digitalphotographycourses.com/?p=44188 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:22:48 +0200 729a4e0f496abd817a3ba454c652f394 Francois Kloppers posted an update in the group Street Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/37410/ Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:13:38 +0200

Few clicks from the weekend at Norwood.

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]]> 0 171a1c36618fa5970eacd4f0cbd4f8ad Frances Fujii posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36821/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:55:38 +0200

Family Portrait
#WildlifePhotography

]]> 1 bc9b620d88c33500b6a8c2f6f3355fd6 Frances Fujii posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36820/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:54:39 +0200

Beautiful Vixen
#WildlifePhotography

]]> 2 d8f172107dcaa90c7cf5cd824fe685a4 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 Africa’s Namib Desert, in the middle of a region known as “the forbidden zone.” And the story of how it got here is about as strange as the sight of the town today. A strange, painful history One evening in 1908, a Namibian railway worker named Zacherias Lewala was shovelling railroad tracks clear of creeping sand dunes when he saw some stones shining in the low light. Lewala’s German employer identified them for what they were: diamonds. Lewala was not paid or rewarded for his find. Soon, hordes of prospectors descended on the area. By 1912, a town had sprung up, producing a million carats a year, or 11.7 percent of the world’s total diamond production. Wealthy Kolmanskop became a well of luxury in the barren desert. There was a butcher, a baker, a post office, and an ice factory; fresh water was brought by rail. European opera groups even came to perform. A sort of mad eccentricity reigned. One family kept a pet ostrich that terrorized other townspeople and was made to pull a sleigh at Christmas. But Kolmanskop—part of the struggling colony of German South West Africa—was also built on a legacy of colonial violence. Only four years before the discovery of diamonds at Kolmanskop, the Namibian Herero people rebelled against the German colonizers, who retaliated with genocidal ferocity by killing over 60,000 Herero. Boom and bust Kolmanskop’s prospectors were becoming rich overnight simply picking diamonds off the desert floor, but German authorities wanted greater control over the incredible riches. They cracked down, declaring a vast area of Namibia a Sperrgebiet, or restricted zone, forbidding entry to ordinary people and reserving prospecting rights for a single, Berlin-based company. Tribespeople displaced from their land by the zone’s construction were often employed as laborers in diamond mines, forced to live on cramped, barracks-like compounds for months at a time. But it wasn’t to last. Intensive mining depleted the area by the 1930s, and in 1928, the town’s fate was sealed when the richest diamond fields ever known were found on the beach terraces to the south. The townspeople left in droves, abandoning homes and possessions. By 1956, Kolmanskop was completely abandoned. The dunes that once rolled over Lewala’s railway tracks now burst through the ghost town’s doors and porches, filling its rooms with smooth banks of sand. A second life (and death) In 2002, a local private company called Ghost Town Tours was awarded the concession to manage Kolmanskop as a tourist attraction, bussing visitors into the forbidden zone to explore and photograph the sand-covered ruins. Today, as many as 35,000 tourists visit the site every year, bringing money to the nearby coastal town of Lüderitz. “Ruin gazing” is nothing new—for millennia, people have been drawn to broken cities and toppled monuments, places of quiet contemplation that remind us of our own hubris and of the power of time. But nothing lasts forever. Despite ongoing conservation efforts and a yearly limit on the number of tourists, studies undertaken around 2010 showed “a marked deterioration” of several structures in Kolmanskop. Before long, the town might vanish into the desert. Let us know if you are interested in visiting this ghost town and we will make it happen! Until then, the surreal ruins remind us of our societies’ power to build—but also of the material waste and human suffering we’re capable of wreaking. Today’s tourists visit a testament to the evils of the colonial system, a melancholy monument to a world disappearing once and for all beneath history’s shifting sands. https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36780/ Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:24:16 +0200

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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]]> 0 4ae43df625119b1f0c98c23845b4a15a Bruna Mentrup posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36775/ Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:22:39 +0200

#Wildlife Photography
#Conservation
From my “Voices in the Wild” collection
.https://www.bruna.co.za/voices-in-the-wild

]]> 0 76ff654669cfe2e22a9c81da691066b6 Bruna Mentrup posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/26429/ Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:53:40 +0200

View the Wildlife Photographer of the Year images from the current and previous years’ competitions. These images were awarded for their artistic composition, technical innovation and truthful interpretation of the natural world. Some stunning images.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery

]]> 0 9029de60c4406fd6b8916d382ad271f2 https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/19414/ Mon, 05 May 2025 17:44:07 +0200 0 1f75c0bb2da2ad4765897b9e943b87d7 https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/19373/ Mon, 05 May 2025 17:27:48 +0200 0 3376d7a48ef32b54f668ec8aff13ecf5 Some shots from this weekends basic photograpghy practical class in Norwood. Was so much fun! https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/16905/ Sun, 04 May 2025 19:04:29 +0200

Some shots from this weekends basic photograpghy practical class in Norwood. Was so much fun!
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]]> 0 e423908ffb22e68315478be2be2f5e54 Vivienne Murray posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/14774/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:48:24 +0200

Autumn in the inner city
#ICM2025 #IntentionalCameraMovement
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]]> 0 f66769794eb4ea8e5040164f3b0e37ad Rob Brewer posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/14765/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 08:23:33 +0200

Angelic

#ICM2025 #IntentionalCameraMovement.
]]> 0 be32eb8b768f280cb13e0508f3243e4c Rob Brewer posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/14764/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 08:16:03 +0200

Rock in Colour!

#ICM2025 #IntentionalCameraMovement.
]]> 0 1373b52eb9e2199f3991619d9d248f0c Bruna Mentrup posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/11748/ Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:34:29 +0200

Photographers:

Strip GPS Data from Your Photos to Protect Wildlife

Most of us will have shared photos of animals online, or just “behind the scenes” shots whilst out on location, without a second thought. But your smartphone, and some cameras, are embedding GPS data into these images by default. This GPS data can, unfortunately, be det…Read More

]]> 0 e2e236f6f52fb5ddd8e78c7125ecb184 Luke Brouwers posted an update in the group Travel and Landscape Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/8260/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:39:12 +0200

Lukr Brouwers Photography “Sunset in Etosha” Namibia 2022
Sunsets in Etosha, Namibia are nothing short of magical—a daily spectacle that paints the vast African sky with a kaleidoscope of color. The sky transforms into a canvas of deep oranges, fiery reds, and soft purples.
CANON90D 1/80sec@f/4.5, ISO400 105mm(EF 24-105) Tripod used.

#TravelP…Read More

]]> 0 780db83a218a5ed55c926f8c6648f0ee DPC wrote a new post https://digitalphotographycourses.com/?p=11150 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 13:52:24 +0200 adbbbb4b570cb50bc89dfa702fbcbd78 The Lovely Paarl…. https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/8239/ Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:21:23 +0200

The Lovely Paarl….

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]]> 0 87bf1e54168ad0a6df6a265ca743d793 Danie Bester wrote a new post https://digitalphotographycourses.com/?p=11271 Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:25:58 +0200 e033bcaac822fa74df1e7ad8d05a086a Bruna Mentrup posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/8232/ Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:15:44 +0200

This happens in your office when you take photography too far!

]]> 0 9b52a48f9832907dd6c7aa2b14cd2614 Rosalie Rothner posted an update in the group Architectural Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/8217/ Sat, 05 Apr 2025 06:59:43 +0200

Industry

f 29
15 sec
ISO100

Another attempt at a longer exposure of a factory framed nicely by the highway bridge. The very high f-stop was mostly to be able to get the longer exposure time, using a variable ND filter.
Taken at Bluewater Bay near Port Elizabeth.

#ArchitecturalPhotography #Monochrome

]]> 0 37ca6e2615992092a54a69785281cf00 Rosalie Rothner posted an update in the group Architectural Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/8216/ Sat, 05 Apr 2025 06:56:59 +0200

Bluewater Bay Bridge

f 18
8 sec
ISO100

Tried a longer exposure of the highway bridge going over the lagoon at Bluewater Bay in PE. I used a tripod (of course) and a variable ND filter to be able to get the longer shutter speed. The photo was taken around the golden hour time, but it was quite overcast so the light wasn’t all that pretty o…Read More

]]> 0 98d5c395361d6f8b8f154eefc0228b1f Luke Brouwers posted an update in the group Architectural Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/8106/ Sun, 23 Mar 2025 20:37:27 +0200

Luke Brouwers “Sandton Study 1” Johannesburg
CANON 70D 2.6sec@f/8 ISO100 18mm(10-20) Sigma wide angle Tripod used and edited in Lightroom and Photoshop
Just love photographing this building and all I want from this building is a very moody stormy sky next time.😜
#ArchitecturalPhotography #Urbanscapes #Cityscapes #InteriorPhotography #LukeBro…Read More

]]> 0 4ed05bc0f54988e022e31463cb0fc7aa Luke Brouwers posted an update in the group Architectural Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/8083/ Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:01:42 +0200

And here are some shots from the Menlyn shopping centre. Lots of eye candy there as well.
]]> 0 af161489c3fa21ebaa10b6d7d34c97bc Luke Brouwers posted an update in the group Architectural Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/8082/ Wed, 19 Mar 2025 06:52:44 +0200

After an interesting talk from Danie last night where he gave some practical tips when it comes to shooting Architecture, interior and exterior, I thought I share some images I took together with Danie at Mall of Africa. This was a good couple of years ago and all these images were bracketed for the dynamic range. My biggest regret from then was…Read More
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]]> 0 d902471499d696672379efdc41db0135 Hennie Muller posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/8019/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 04:33:35 +0200

Title: Look! A camera!

Camera: Nikon Z6II
Lens: Sigma 150-600mm at 300mm focal length
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 650
Shutter speed: 1/500sec
Cropped. Linear gradient to darken the foreground, and background.
#WildlifePhotography

]]> 2 be03ce88bd7c6b6064953cd8fd82168b Bruna Mentrup posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7912/ Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:07:29 +0200

https://www.naturephotographers.network/articles/creative/photography-with-enthusiasm/

]]> 1 aab4c1c8b387180f46ad177cd0fd706c Bruna Mentrup posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7909/ Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:12:48 +0200

Like them or loathe them, crocodiles are fascinating ancient predators that have been feared, revered, and respected by humans since we joined them in existence.

These distinct and dominating reptiles have been a symbol of strength and resilience throughout history, and even hold cultural and mythological significance in some parts of the…Read More

]]> 0 e17fd328b737ce101dfba0f724fdb4a1 DPC posted an update in the group Artificial Lighting https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7898/ Fri, 14 Feb 2025 04:40:26 +0200 0 5cb4ecbb7c13e6e4fe81eedbbb35edc0 Bruna Mentrup posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7896/ Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:38:10 +0200

Elephants are the largest living land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. They are the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea; extinct relatives include mammoths and mastodons.
Mass: Asian elephant: 4 000 kg,…Read More

]]> 0 dcc76793f7d33d812f2008510191f649 DPC wrote a new post https://digitalphotographycourses.com/?p=10490 Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:58:44 +0200 771561f58d381abdc8e344a1ccc586b7 Ben Froneman posted an update in the group Black and White Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7852/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:28:37 +0200

Memory Lane
#monochrome2024
#blackandwhitephotography

]]> 0 3ce638382fbf57e28783eaeb9aed03ad Ben Froneman posted an update in the group Black and White Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7851/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:25:23 +0200

Solitude
#monochrome2024
#blackandwhitephotography
]]> 0 ff4a4ca812be0ee4158b05f981760b8f Winifred Harms posted an update in the group Food Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7824/ Sun, 02 Feb 2025 08:47:20 +0200

Dark, moody, and rich in texture. This shot captures the deep, indulgent tones of black fig brownies.

#FoodPhotography
#CulinaryArt
#FoodStyling
#WinifredHarms

]]> 2 894c189fde1e9b100402898c5bd2bb36 schalk vorster posted an update in the group Black and White Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7823/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:42:34 +0200

Leopard Stare
#Monchrome2024
#BlackandWhitePhotography

]]> 3 63987fa766720bb57b2a06c72e1794fd schalk vorster posted an update in the group Black and White Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7822/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:35:21 +0200

Staring Eye
#Monochrome2024
#BlackandWhitePhotography

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