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Luke Brouwers posted in the group Photo Themes
Luke Brouwers “Bo Kaap 1”, Capetown 2023
CANON90D 1/2000 sec@f6.3 ISO200 105mm (EF24-105mm)
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Colleen Francis posted in the group Photo Themes
Title: Retail Therapy – Where it all starts
All these brown paper patterns, hanging around, waiting to become something special!
Photo taken with my Nikon D3400. Focal length 27mm, Shutter speed 1/80sec, Aperture f5.6 and ISO 400
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Colleen Francis posted in the group Photo Themes
Title: Retail Therapy – Hanging Around
Another peek through aretail shop window on 44 Stanley. Love the wooden manikins peering out at the passing trade!
Photo taken with my Nikon D3400. Focal length 29mm, Shutter speed 1/60sec, Aperture f5.6 and ISO 400
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Colleen Francis posted in the group Photo Themes
Title: Retail Therapy – Hanging Around
On 44 Stanley – loving the colours and the reflection of a picture top left!
Photo taken with my Nikon D3400. Focal length 40mm, Shutter speed 1/20sec, Aperture f5.6 and ISO 400
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Colleen Francis posted in the group Photo Themes
Title: Saint Germain
On 44 Stanley – a peep through the window of Saint Germain
Photo taken with my Nikon D3400. Focal length 31mm, Shutter speed 1/125sec, Aperture f5.6 and ISO 400
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Colleen Francis posted in the group Photo Themes
Title: Retail Therapy – In Teal
Another shot through a retail window at 44 Stanley.
Photo taken with my Nikon D3400. Focal length 48mm, Shutter speed 1/640sec, Aperture f5.6 and ISO 400
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Colleen Francis posted in the group Photo Themes
Title: Retail Therapy – In Teal
On our trip to 44 Stanley I took a number of shots through retail windows.
Also needed to showcase softer work after the grundgy posts titled Urban Decay and Urban Scripture.
Photo taken with my Nikon D3400. Focal length 55mm, Shutter speed 1/400sec, Aperture f5.6 and ISO 400.
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Colleen Francis posted in the group Photo Themes
Title: Urban Scripture
Another amazingly creative piece of graffiti found on the inner wall of a storm water drain.
Photo taken with my Nikon D3400. Focal length 34mm, Shutter speed 1/2500sec, Aperture f5.6 and ISO 400.
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Colleen Francis posted in the group Photo Themes
Title: Urban Scripture
I spotted this graffiti on a family visit, alongside Hendrik Potgieter Road in Roodepoort. .
Photo taken with my Nikon D3400. Focal length 45mm, Shutter speed 1/3200sec, Aperture f5.6 and ISO 400.
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About Me
Photography is an art medium that speaks to me the most as an outlet for my creativity. I especially love landscape and architectural photography. Landscape photography gives one time to think, discover and create. It gives me great pleasure to find silence, solitude, simplicity and sometimes coincidence and surprises in nature.
Over the years I have discovered I am naturally draw to black and white (B&W) images, especially in B&W architecture. The biggest reason, other than the timeless appeal of B&W, lies in the fact that B&W architectural photography, by its nature, gives me more freedom to depart from the visual reality. Therefore, for me, the joy of being creative comes from identifying the underlying beauty and potential from a more visible and obvious colour reality, then transforming it to a black and white vision. This holds true for landscape photography as well.
My use of natural light, tonal contrast, colour, texture, and movement are the qualities I look for when I am out there and what makes my images unique. Through my images, I want to offer the world my perspectives and express my connections with the subjects that I capture.








