DPC | Digital Photography Courses | Saydi Barbosa | Favourites https://digitalphotographycourses.com/members-directory/saydi-barbosa/activity/favorites/ Activity feed of Saydi Barbosa's favourites. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:44:33 +0200 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 d2b6c747618d5e592db97234bd4d6ac4 DPC wrote a new post https://digitalphotographycourses.com/?p=41366 Thu, 19 Jun 2025 18:56:51 +0200 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 a427e84a35c59236bf2c86097c238275 Bruno Verolini posted an update in the group Buy and Sell Photo Gear https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/8103/ Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:14:28 +0200

Curiosity begs to ask the question for the uninitiated and the unintended.

If one has a limited budget of R10k and is looking for a second-hand camera, what would the “knowledgeable’s” recommend to be a good purchase (body only and price) within the Canon range that offers quality for price and use across various genre’s of photography?

Just asking.

]]> 0 2313b1b8d88ae716627dbdb15b1b2914 Bruna Mentrup posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/5229/ Sat, 04 May 2024 12:17:10 +0200

Featuring Greg du Toit, Wildlife Fine Art Photographer of the Year 2013:
Image Called: Essence Of Elephants

Being a true low-light specialist, he takes his camera out when it is nearly dark. He enjoys the blue hues accompanying the twilight hours, called Rayleigh scattering or Blue Hour.
He is also a master of slow shutter speeds and panning…Read More
Wildlife Photography Collection by Greg du Toit
Fine art photography by multi-award-winning wildlife photographer Greg du Toit, view his incredible portfolio of breathtaking limited edition prints.
www.osnergallery.com
]]> 0 a7aef2e06e22978cafaa25721ee60fe8 Bruna Mentrup posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/5140/ Sat, 27 Apr 2024 13:55:32 +0200

Slow Shutter Speed Creations – Blue Light
Blue light photography happens when the sun is just a few degrees below the horizon line. At this position, the sun doesn’t directly illuminate the foreground (or your subjects). Instead, this indirect sunlight produces predominantly blue hues caused by an effect called Rayleigh scattering.

]]> 0 8d0d745dc2e8559b6713fc48258823a1 Bruna Mentrup posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/5123/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:53:04 +0200

Slow Shutter Speed Creations. Our wildlife theme for next week is creative/fine art photography. I would like to take the opportunity to share some of my work. I admit this is not my speciality as I find it challenging to…Read More

]]> 0 a358b2ecf950193de704272a39a6b43b DPC posted an update in the group Fine Art Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/5058/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:01:01 +0200

Explore 20 of the most renowned fine art photographers. While opinions may vary, each artist on this list is worth studying:

#JulienDelagrange #FineArtPhotography

]]> 0 a697ac6047360aa420126d52433713d2 Luke Brouwers posted an update in the group Black and White Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/4672/ Tue, 12 Mar 2024 06:57:32 +0200

Luke Brouwers “Come Fly With Me” Cape Town 2023
CANON 90D, 1/500sec@f/5.6 ISO100 105mm(EF24-105mm) I took this image of the para-gliders launching from Signal hill. It was blue skies but fortunately some of the para-gliders would pass his cloud. Converted to B&W and edited in Lightroom and Photoshop
#BlackAndWhitePhotography #BNWPhotography …Read More

]]> 0 e2730dbf1e78c649af143b83e9845413 Rosalie Rothner posted an update in the group Food Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/4663/ Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:50:15 +0200

Oats and Blueberries

Going out of my comfort zone and playing around with dark and moody for a change. It was really interesting how much work I had to do to cut down the light, especially for the background, to get the feeling I was going for.

f4.0, 2 sec, ISO 100

#FoodPhotography #Breakfast #DarkAndMoody
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#WeeklyPhotoAwards2024…Read More

]]> 2 05817ecbd65b4ce751beebe897098fde 5 Shots of Storytelling #visualstorytelling https://groblerbei.myportfolio.com/a-day-at-the-istanbul-bazaar #travelandlandscape https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/4658/ Sun, 10 Mar 2024 12:41:21 +0200

5 Shots of Storytelling
#visualstorytelling
https://groblerbei.myportfolio.com/a-day-at-the-istanbul-bazaar
#travelandlandscape

Elma Grobler - Visual story telling
groblerbei.myportfolio.com
]]> 1 4e1f04fa754a44affaf0b1c574e8ddfb Bruno Verolini posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/3617/ Sun, 10 Dec 2023 09:26:54 +0200

Bird-of-Paradise on Fire

Early evening sunshine at the end of summer casting a shadow across the garden with a ray of sunlight behind the Strelitzia lighting up the flower.

Canon 600D – ISO 100 – f4.0 – 1/125
April ’23

#SimpleThings2023

]]> 0 db99b531f094543f8683713e39ce9991 Riette Jonker posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/2835/ Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:02:32 +0200

Hanging on for life – Kruger National Park

Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL, 150.0-500.0 mm, ISO 400, 247 mm, f / 5.6, 1/200 sec
#Rebirth2023

]]> 2 95ec423c0db1e0ff55d5d7eeb5d14eff Jon Kerrin posted an update in the group Photo Themes https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/2814/ Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:56:26 +0200

New life born out of a burnt landscape in Cape Point
IS0200, f/11, 1/50sec

#Rebirth2023 #landscapephotography #JonKerrin #DPCTutor

]]> 0 cd19d17d73a2a9a394f89c8123437d56 Bruna Mentrup posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/2525/ Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:13:04 +0200

Continuation: Capture Wildlife In Low Light
“Phofu Cattle”
1/4000sec – f/5,6 – ISO800 – Nikon D600 – 70-200mm f/2.8 Lens – Focal Length 70mm – Flash Did Not Fire – Manual Mode – Botswana

Cattle do not fall under wildlife; however, I want to share this image with you.

I took the shot from a low angle, sitting down. I waited for the cattle to mov…Read More

]]> 0 eed81828d2b3a9c9d6fd7f59ebf2e0cc DPC posted an update in the group Daily Photo Digest https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/2512/ Mon, 16 Oct 2023 07:48:14 +0200
]]> 0 30da4f2884ccba1393b3271b5a51564e DPC posted an update in the group Daily Photo Digest https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/2510/ Mon, 16 Oct 2023 07:38:41 +0200

Nick Brandt: Lion Before the Storm II, Sitting Profile, Maasai Mara, 2007
Photo Credit: Artsy.net

This second photograph in the series features the same lion we posted earlier, captured in a timeless and hauntingly beautiful pose. Here, the lion sits with his head fully turned to the side, giving off a contemplative and focused expression. The…Read More

]]> 0 a35b86ad23a63a5b115cfafa90d5fb10 DPC posted an update in the group Daily Photo Digest https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/2477/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 06:52:22 +0200

Nick Brandt. Lion Before the Storm I, Maasai Mara, 2007
Photo Credit: Artsy.net

This photograph features a majestic standing lion with his head turned towards the wind and is strikingly captivating. It’s part of a two-photo series featuring the same lion. In this Study 1, the lion is artfully framed between two shrubs. The low angle and intimate…Read More

]]> 1 721c0a876317ce23230aa8b72477e3d7 DPC posted an update in the group Daily Photo Digest https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/2444/ Fri, 13 Oct 2023 13:37:50 +0200

Hiroshi Sugimoto. Lightning Fields 327, 2014
Photo Credit: Hiroshi Sugimoto Website

Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer renowned for his large-format photographs exploring themes of time, space, and the metaphysics of human existence. Born in Tokyo in 1948, he moved to the United States in 1970 to study fine arts and photography. His…Read More

Hiroshi Sugimoto
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]]> 0 3d124660a668b1e5376bad1cd1f7bfc0 Landie Fourie posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/2437/ Fri, 13 Oct 2023 06:29:03 +0200

Jackalberry
Low light theme

Nikon D610, Tamron 150-600mm @600mm, f/6.3, ISO 4000, 1/1250 sec, +5-EV

We went searching for Jackalberry early one morning as he was spotted with a kill in a tree. After scanning the tree extensively and seeing only the remains of an unlucky impala, I noticed this gorgeous, large face staring at us from the dark…Read More

]]> 1 f4dd0f15e499f47686c8cd036440e15c DPC posted an update in the group Daily Photo Digest https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/2385/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:50:59 +0200

Steve McCurry. Blue City, Jodhpur, India, 2010
Photo Credit: Artsy.net

Today, we’re examining a distinctive photograph by Steve McCurry: a captivatingly romantic view of Jodhpur, also known as the “Blue City,” in Rajasthan, India. Through McCurry’s lens, we see a labyrinthine cluster of blue houses cascading towards the base of Mehrangarh F…Read More

]]> 1 8139920c710fddd3b86b07b3f9cdbf0a Bruna Mentrup posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/2333/ Wed, 11 Oct 2023 12:13:24 +0200

Continuation: Capture Wildlife In Low-Light
“Flamingos In Flight”
1/500sec – f/14 – ISO 2000 – Flash Not Fired – Nikon D5 – Nikon 600mm f/4 Lens – Manual Mode – Camera Support

I captured this image during my solitary three-month trip through parts of Africa. Being on the road for four weeks and not photographing anything worthwhile regarding…Read More

]]> 1 11dc9294486674b1e2218bce2ab5bae9 Bruna Mentrup posted an update in the group Wildlife Photography https://digitalphotographycourses.com/activity/p/2247/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 12:27:07 +0200

Continuation: Capturing Wildlife in Low Light.
“Golden Hour At The Delta (Elephants)”
1/500sec – f/5,6 – ISO 250 – Nikon D600 – Nikon 200 – 400mm f/4 lens – Focal Length 200mm – Flash not fired – Manual Mode – Camera Bracket

Here, I can only elaborate on the vibrant, warm tones during sunset at the Delta. Most viewers will think the image is…Read More

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