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For anything South African.

Featured Work

Bird of prey by Natasha van Dyk

Acrlylic on canvas. 100cm x 100cm
La Gratitude by fourthangel

This house at 95 Dorp Street, built by the Rev. Meent Borcherd in 1798 as a parsonage, has the “All-Seeing Eye” on the gable. It is now privately owned.
Land of the Vulture by Ted Widen

This composite image brings together a portrait of an immature vulture and the South African evening farmland in a region called “The Overberg” .
On the slope by fourthangel

This building appears to be in the process of being renovated. Love the hole in the wall. Taken in Napier in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Nectar on Tap by Macky

Cape Sugarbird hen – Promerops cafer feeding on Protea nectar on the slopes of the Table Mountain range. Cape Town, South Africa Shutter Speed 1/180 / Aperture f8.0 / ISO 400 / Focal Length 260mm / Exposure Correction -2,5
Mooo-ve Out The Way by Heather Nel

Taken at Guthers, a German deli, in the Natal Midlands on a beautiful misty morning …. CANON POWERSHOT S2IS (01.11.09) / (01.11.09) / (09.11.09)
Tree lined by fourthangel

A long, tree lined driveway leading to the main homestead of an old wine farm called Rustenburg, near Stellenbosch in South Africa, dating back about 200 years.
Few Flowers for U by Warren Williams

Addo Rose Show 2008 / Addo / RSA
Pure Nature by Heather Nel

The Drakensberg mountains of South Africa or uKhahlamba (the Barrier of Spears) is a 200-kilometre-long mountainous wonderland and world heritage site. The largest proportion of the Drakensberg area falls in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. Combining sheer natural beauty with a wealth of biological diversity, this 243 000 hectare mountainous region known the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park has been preserved and venerated for eons since the San people or bushmen roamed these slopes. Tens of thousands of paintings depicting their daily life can be found on the rock faces, and in December 2000, the park received international recognition and was declared KwaZulu-Natal’s second World Heritage Site. / (09.11.09)
Golden Amphitheatre - Mount aux Sources, Drakensberg by Fineli

Having left the National Park I looked back at the Amphitheatre. The sun was setting in the west giving a golden light on the straw-coloured winter grasslands of KwaZulu-Natal. A thin whisp of smoke from the freshly burnt patch of grass at the foot of the mountain had risen and draped itself along the mountain range. Canon T50, Canon zoom 28-200mm, scanned
Myrtle Rigg Memorial Church door by fourthangel

This is the only church in the world to be built at the request of a little girl. Her father built it for her after she asked him to while on her deathbed at the age of 7 in 1911. It was completed in 1921 and the church door was shipped in from Zanzibar.

Recent Work

Blue Mountains of the Cape by Fineli

The mountain range between Wolseley and Worcester , Western Cape, South Africa. Canon EOS 40D, Tamron zoom lens 18-260mm.
Pin Tailed Whydah by serendip

Taken through glass. This guy has been a regular visitor both last summer and over the past two weeks this year. He comes to perch on the handle of our bedroom window- presumably to admire his reflection. He often wakes us up in the morning with his high pitched “Tseet,Tseet,Tseet” call. They are very common over the whole of Southern Africa and found in many gardens. In winter they are a dull brown and only distinguishable from the hen by their red beak, but come the mating season they grow these long tails and which make flight slightly erratic, and bright black grey and white plumage. Narcissism seems to be the name of the game here as he prances up and down on the handle, then he will jump backwards and flutter in front of his reflection then return to the handle. This behaviour can be repeated several times in visits lasting up to half a minute or more. We know that he is in the garden in winter, but these visits only occur when he is in “full flirting regalia”.
Morning Call by serendip

Pin Tailed Whydah – taken through glass. This guy has been a regular visitor both last summer and over the past two weeks this year. He comes to perch on the handle of our bedroom window- presumably to admire his reflection. He often wakes us up in the morning with his high pitched “Tseet,Tseet,Tseet” call. They are very common over the whole of Southern Africa and found in many gardens. In winter they are a dull brown and only distinguishable from the hen by their red beak, but come the mating season they grow these long tails and which make flight slightly erratic, and bright black grey and white plumage. Narcissism seems to be the name of the game here as he prances up and down on the handle, then he will jump backwards and flutter in front of his reflection then return to the handle. This behaviour can be repeated several times in visits lasting up to half a minute or more. We know that he is in the garden in winter, but these visits only occur when he is in “full flirting regalia”.
A tap at the window by serendip

Pin Tailed Whydah – taken through glass. This guy has been a regular visitor both last summer and over the past two weeks this year. He comes to perch on the handle of our bedroom window- presumably to admire his reflection. He often wakes us up in the morning with his high pitched “Tseet,Tseet,Tseet” call. They are very common over the whole of Southern Africa and found in many gardens. In winter they are a dull brown and only distinguishable from the hen by their red beak, but come the mating season they grow these long tails and which make flight slightly erratic, and bright black grey and white plumage. Narcissism seems to be the name of the game here as he prances up and down on the handle, then he will jump backwards and flutter in front of his reflection then return to the handle. This behaviour can be repeated several times in visits lasting up to half a minute or more. We know that he is in the garden in winter, but these visits only occur when he is in “full flirting regalia”.
Africa,,,, A collage of Wildlife by GEORGE SANDERSON

A pen and ink drawing image size 14×10 inches / there are nine animals and four birds in the picture, see how many you can spot !
Refection from the Heavens by r0xii

Taken at Blaauwberg beach.
Untitled by Lebogang Manganye

Canon 450 D
Sacred Ibis by Macky

Sacred Ibis – Theskiornis aethiopicus Intaka Wetland – Cape Town – South Africa
Sugarbird on Protea II by Macky

Cape Sugarbird hen– Promerops cafer – Cape Town, South Africa Shutter Speed 1/350 / Aperture f8.0 / ISO 400 / Focal Length 200mm / Exposure Correction -0.5
Dégustation de vins by juellie

Impression of a wine tasting in Stellenbosch, South Africa
Door to the Past by Heather Nel

This beautiful Old Cape Dutch door is in the kitchen of Old Drosdy in Tulbach, Western Cape. Now how beautiful are those hinges ….. : ) If only that door could talk, image the kitchen tales it would be able to tell LOL Canon PowerShot S2IS /
Pawprints in the sand. Alexander Bay, South Africa by Fineli

It was a breezy cold day on the beach near Alexander Bay with wind blowing in from the cold Atlantic. I loved the many patterns in the sand. A small creature had left these strange dark footprints in the sand. Canon EOS 40D, Tamron zoom 18-260 mm, f/22, 1/125, ISO 320