by btharp | Sep 2, 2015 | Black-and-White, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Insights, Landscape Photography, Namibia, nature photography
I love geology, and when I travel to places with weird rock formations, I get excited. Nature’s processes to shape our world never cease to amaze me. I’m also amazed at the transformation an image can have, when it’s converted to monochrome. The...
by btharp | Apr 5, 2015 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, Namibia, nature photography, photography, workshops & photo tours
I love it when you see things in nature that remind you of other things! As I was walking through the Quiver Tree forest in Keetmanshoop, Namibia, this root looked a lot like a tiger or lion paw and forearm, draped over the rocks. I framed it to capture what I saw...
by btharp | Nov 26, 2014 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Insights, Namibia, nature photography, Photo Blog, photography, The Blog, workshops & photo tours
So here I was in this incredible Quiver Tree Forest* in Namibia, amazed by the bizarre shapes, colors and the textures I was seeing. As the light lowered in the sky, getting warmer, the trees glowed. Yet it was my second afternoon there, and I was looking for...
by btharp | Oct 24, 2014 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Namibia, photographing people, photography, travel photography, workshops & photo tours
We visited two Himba villages on our Namibia Photo Tour. Villages that are not visited by groups very much. We met the Chief in this village, and then were welcomed in to walk around and observe daily life as lived by the Himba. It’s a really interesting...
by btharp | Sep 26, 2014 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, Namibia, nature photography, photography, The Blog, workshops & photo tours
Here’s another image from the massive dunes that line the road in Sossusvlei National Park, Namibia. The dunes were very high, and some great compositions were above the desert floor, but here, I liked the two trees that gave it scale. Not much more to say...