DPC | Digital Photography Courses | Retha Stoltz | Favourites https://digitalphotographycourses.com/members-directory/retha-stoltz/activity/favorites/ Activity feed of Retha Stoltz's favourites. Mon, 11 May 2026 18:09:11 +0200 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 f87b7fc9422b3c91e1cb5c99e6f373c4 DPC wrote a new post https://digitalphotographycourses.com/?p=44501 Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:07:59 +0200 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

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#BNWPhotography
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]]> 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 7d1b98b39ef3a190cd68da84fd1c5cbc Renate Laaks posted an update in the group Macro Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/38002/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 06:30:51 +0200

#MacroPhotography
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]]> 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 8b9d7f257d4212f0e66f12ee2f7a4f20 Deon Cerff posted an update in the group Street Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/37300/ Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:34:20 +0200 0 5613362448a85b2c5abc67c570bd27fb Ringneck parakeet enjoying the nectar of Coral tree flowers. Settings: focal length 560mm, f8, 1/1000, ISO800 Gear: Canon 5D Mark IV, EF 100-400mm with 1.4 extender #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #UrbanWildlife https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/37193/ Wed, 23 Jul 2025 08:29:12 +0200

Ringneck parakeet enjoying the nectar of Coral tree flowers.

Settings: focal length 560mm, f8, 1/1000, ISO800
Gear: Canon 5D Mark IV, EF 100-400mm with 1.4 extender

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]]> 2 81a6fc0335cd337250e450bd5110f469 Rene Pheiffer posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/37033/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 21:23:03 +0200

At the Edge
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Shutter speed 1/10, Aperture F/9

]]> 1 9dd54eb09d94743062c31fb28446b3a7 Rene Pheiffer posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/37032/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 21:14:45 +0200

Stripes
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]]> 1 7404cdce33e77128dc2eb3dedf9bdd04 Melissa Barker posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/37031/ Sun, 06 Jul 2025 22:13:14 +0200

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]]> 0 ddd9b52274f2c7190bb3bd5adecc4e3e Melissa Barker posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/37030/ Sun, 06 Jul 2025 22:08:11 +0200

Motion pictures
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]]> 0 11833a73ad9361a4d107f9f61e3c8e48 Vincent Bernhardt posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/37028/ Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:55:32 +0200

The Pond – A Dreamed in Passing Series Photo
Dreamed in Passing Series is a visual meditation on movement, memory and the quiet clarity found in solitude. These images carry a soft blur that suggests time not stopped but gently stretch, like the way a memory lingers before it fades. These are not moments captured, they are moments dreamed,…Read More

]]> 1 c69f2c94e02d0d05e4eb5326634212fe Vincent vW posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36911/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:25:57 +0200

The Tunnel
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0.8 sec at f/16

]]> 0 ddf16f2e6f9c0444e3c7f04f7e67fa1d Kim Stevens posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36902/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:57:23 +0200

Lady of the Camellias
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9 images blended in-camera of differing shutter speeds walking around the tree…pep Ventosa technique

tree...pep
]]> 1 18c614f329c232bb222cfc3bb268156e Kim Stevens posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36901/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:29:53 +0200

Sospiri
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#IntentionalCameraMovement
Zoom blur
f16 1/10 sec
CanonR6 and 70/200 lens

]]> 0 e935fe7058c9b3229363c00f6e463ac6 Kim Stevens posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36900/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:24:22 +0200

Crossing Over
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Taken at Lamberts Bay on a very misty morning
This sacred ibis took off directly above me and I managed to pan with it getting this arrow shape
CanonR5 with 70/200 lens atf14 and 1/30 sec

]]> 1 a1df61550f34862f2475004af81d6c1e Kim Stevens posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36899/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:17:01 +0200

In Rehearsal
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Dancers caught during rehearsal
3 in-camera multiple images at 1/30 sec
f5

]]> 1 7cddab0bc266281fe1579b1e112d744d Kim Stevens posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36898/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:12:21 +0200

The Dance of the Jilted Brides (Wilis) from Giselle
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Taken from backstage on Canon R5 with 24/70 lens it is 3exposures in-camera multiple images at 1/15 sec Iso 3200 f stop 3.2

]]> 1 4a8f84d1257f548736589e849b3aac5b Antoinette Schaafsma-Strydom posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36894/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:19:56 +0200

“Standing out from the crowd”

#ICM2025 #IntentionalCameraMovement

Fujifilm XS-10
F22, 1/15 sec

]]> 0 238ff1126136ea403dc3c1a000e01309 Antoinette Schaafsma-Strydom posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36893/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:18:11 +0200

“Haze of bodies”

#ICM2025 #IntentionalCameraMovement

Fujifilm XS-10
F22, 1/15 sec

]]> 0 7c64b7191f1372418f85792b55ff2c01 Antoinette Schaafsma-Strydom posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36892/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:16:21 +0200

“It’s war!”
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Fujifilm XS-10
F22, 1/15 sec

]]> 0 4271725495fb9bf59b7de131790a7243 Anton Botha posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36891/ Sun, 22 Jun 2025 09:25:50 +0200

City Lights #ICM2025 #IntentionalCameraMovement

]]> 0 c8e81484bb8a4cfabb9566bc74586a40 Frances Fujii posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36817/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:27:16 +0200

#FrancesFujii
Trio
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#IntentionalCameraMovement

]]> 0 9b7f09615a65e1f43e67aef47899e927 Frances Fujii posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36816/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:26:21 +0200

#FrancesFujii
On the Move
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#IntentionalCameraMovement

]]> 0 631aa375ea3c3cfbaf06e2e442fd0f2f Frances Fujii posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36814/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:23:43 +0200

#FrancesFujii
Kits at Play
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#IntentionalCameraMovement

]]> 0 4044ccbefba6e9e27dc9aa197ab9101e Frances Fujii posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36813/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:22:21 +0200

#FrancesFujii
Intersect
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#IntentionalCameraMovement

]]> 0 490750b1d3a187bbfad94adb998c65a0 Moving car #ICM2025 #IntentionalCameraMovement https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36782/ Sun, 15 Jun 2025 06:52:50 +0200

Moving car
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#IntentionalCameraMovement

]]> 0 d1832206f256eb9b50eda866dbc247d3 Trees #ICM2025 #IntentionalCameraMovement https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36781/ Sun, 15 Jun 2025 06:44:59 +0200

Trees
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]]> 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 7a7f132b069a18c300826f916ab9aba2 Title: The Cooling of the Fires Triptych Maha Nuvara, Sri Lanka, 2025. #ICM2025 #IntentionalCameraMovement https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/36586/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 07:47:28 +0200

Title: The Cooling of the Fires
Triptych
Maha Nuvara, Sri Lanka, 2025.

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]]> 0 01f76ac689022ee782c0a9f6d503306a Title : Be calm Natures , always has a way of showing how calm it can make the soul. Canon Eos 600D Shutter speed :1/60 sec Apperture: F5.7 Iso: 300 https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/31895/ Sun, 08 Jun 2025 07:27:55 +0200

Title : Be calm

Natures , always has a way of showing how calm it can make the soul.

Canon Eos 600D
Shutter speed :1/60 sec
Apperture: F5.7
Iso: 300

]]> 0 d82dfbadf086a52f2358c2ce5dd4ac86 Hennie Muller posted an update in the group Street Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/31848/ Sun, 08 Jun 2025 07:03:34 +0200

Some impromptu street photography in the middle of a portrait session in Norwood.
Nikon Z6ii, 1/2000 sec, 50mm @ F1.8, ISO 100. (That 50 is so very nifty…)

]]> 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
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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

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]]> 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!

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]]> 0 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

]]> 1 e8405c5e62171fab809b75475a58be69 schalk vorster posted an update in the group Black and White Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7820/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:31:19 +0200

Swallow Landing
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#BlackandWhitePhotography

]]> 0 5f671b33f946ec14194a6d4e4e904a9a Petra Scheepers posted an update in the group Black and White Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7819/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:48:23 +0200

Pensive Stare
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#BlackandWhitePhotography

]]> 2 32f6eb7708ce52a319bd547aca42e933 Petra Scheepers posted an update in the group Black and White Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7816/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:43:41 +0200

Zebra Family
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#BlackandWhitePhotography

]]> 1 6ac117f5c36c4afb63018cbd5576b1d5 Shadowed elegance #Monochrome2024 #BlackAndWhitePhotography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7808/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:20:53 +0200

Shadowed elegance
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#BlackAndWhitePhotography

]]> 0 0891415b801ef76aeecc93b75426b0fd #Monochrome 2024 #BlackAndWhitePhotography Look through the "keyhole art piece" at the lighthouse at Victoria and Alfred Waterfront in Capetown. What a vibrant and interesting area for local and international visitors alike! https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7805/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 16:09:14 +0200

#Monochrome 2024
#BlackAndWhitePhotography
Look through the “keyhole art piece” at the lighthouse at Victoria and Alfred Waterfront in Capetown. What a vibrant and interesting area for local and international visitors alike!

]]> 0 7b76c9020d2a4416bc67b4b5cb504687 rolling storms #Monochrome2024 #BlackAndWhitePhotography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7791/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:24:31 +0200

rolling storms
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]]> 1 557cbf464b48f6abd7d9b2c55ac53134 Bruna Mentrup posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7786/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:51:49 +0200

Black and White Wildlife Photography Tips

]]> 0 71db39d10227d9d135a48cf2829ffacd Bruna Mentrup posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7780/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:50:21 +0200

#Monochrome Wildlife Photography
#Wildlife
]]> 0 d19ff50ea41f9b7c16bad52d864ddc0d Helen Bissett posted an update in the group Black and White Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7771/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:26:55 +0200

Title: Takes rolling in the hay to the next level
1/1000 sec at f/ 5.6, ISO200 – 123mm (EF70-200mm f2.8L IS II USM)
#Monochrome2024
#BlackAndWhitePhotography

]]> 2 7b641c90dcd944876be932ec2a9c56bd Helen Bissett posted an update in the group Black and White Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7754/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 09:11:55 +0200

In touch with Basotho Heritage
Canon D5 Mark III 1/20 sec at f / 4.0, ISO 3200, 24mm (EF24-70mm f2.8 II USM)
#Monochrome2024
#BlackAndWhitePhotography

]]> 0 52e51ee13f7600c40a9841502c200cd2 Jako Poolman posted an update in the group Black and White Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7745/ Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:25:25 +0200

Bird off a wire

Norwood, Jhb
1/800 |f5.6|ISO 100 – Canon R8 + RF35mm 1.8

#StreetPhotography
#blackandwhitephotography
#monochrome2024

]]> 0 6ba1925c44f5aa5664b06dbf42bf7d02 Jako Poolman posted an update in the group Black and White Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/7744/ Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:22:04 +0200

Shadow of a Sigarette

Norwood, Jhb
1/1250|f5.6|ISO 100 – Canon R8 + RF35mm 1.8

#StreetPhotography
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#monochrome2024

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