DPC | Digital Photography Courses | Linda Napper | Favourites https://digitalphotographycourses.com/members-directory/linda/activity/favorites/ Activity feed of Linda Napper's favourites. Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:36:49 +0200 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 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
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]]> 2 853abfe3ba862809d0984f266d2e32b1 Ray Jeong posted an update in the group Photo Gear Talk https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36806/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:26:43 +0200

Mark Bennett faces a full-blown camera crisis—but don’t worry, the NiSi JetMag Pro saves the day like a magnetic superhero.

#SonyAlphaSA #SonyXNisi #sony #MarkBennett

]]> 0 59efac722689484db015a942420f75ee Kim Backer posted an update in the group Street Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36795/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:36:28 +0200

This article explains when you might need a permit and how laws can vary depending on your location. It’s not extremely long, but it’s pretty eye-opening, especially if you’re planning to shoot in busy areas or for commercial projects.

Just thought it might be useful for others here too…Read More

]]> 0 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 02214e68659eb14f05346c6142af1352 Retha Stoltz posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/30335/ Sat, 07 Jun 2025 16:46:11 +0200

Sunset in the City
#ICM2025
#IntentionalCameraMovement

]]> 0 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 51f6a4b98c0cee723f7d3d0d473bf0f6 DPC posted an update in the group Features and Help Desk https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/3461/ Wed, 29 Nov 2023 12:46:37 +0200

Tutorial 1: Maximizing the DPC Community Platform

#help #tutorial

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