Daily Photo – Willem Pretorius Game Park

Daily Photo – Willem Pretorius Game Park
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This photo was taken a few months after the sunset photo while on a different trip. It's taken from one of the rocky outcrops in the north-east corner of the park looking to the north-west. I've always liked these wide open vistas. They provide a sense of a world without limits.

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Daily Photo – Willem Pretorius Sunset

Daily Photo – Willem Pretorius Sunset
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Once again, at the right time of year, the sunsets in South Africa provide a fantastic display of color. This image is taken in the Willem Pretorius Game Reserve in the Free State.

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Daily Photo – Bultfontein Sunrise

Daily Photo – Bultfontein Sunrise
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After Heuningspruit we found ourselves camped near Bultfontein. This was almost certainly taken with my Tamron 500mm mirror lens as my records show the next longest lens I owned at the time was a 300mm.

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Daily Photo – Heuningspruit Sunrise

Daily Photo – Heuningspruit Sunrise
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Heuningspruit is a really small town, if it even qualifies as a town, about 18 miles north-east of Kroonstad in the Free State. I took this photo of the sunrise from our camp there.

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Daily Photo – Free State near Bethlehem

Daily Photo – Free State near Bethlehem
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Look closely and you can see our camp pretty much centered side to side and just below the horizon. This view is almost certainly to the south-east, the mountains in the distance being in Lesotho. Most of our camps lasted less than a month before we were off again, nomads in Toyota Hiluxes.

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Daily Photo – Theunissen Sunset

Daily Photo – Theunissen Sunset
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If you look at yesterday's image you can see the telegraph pole to the left of center. Taken on the same day but with a telephoto and from a slightly different location.

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