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❇️Nature | ❇️Travel | ❇️Adventure #photography 🇿🇦 Cape Town, South Africa 📷 Canon

241 Followers  |  66 Following  |  252 Posts  |  Joined: 19.01.2025  |  2.2032

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Lovely capture, John!

16.02.2026 16:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Silver sands and an Amber rainbow Walking along the beach last week—silver light and electric clouds, and a rare 'amber rainbow' where the estuary meets the sea. Full photo essay in the link below.

Walking along the beach last week—silver light and electric clouds, and a rare 'amber rainbow' where the estuary meets the sea. Full photo essay in the link below.

open.substack.com/pub/judithst...

15.02.2026 16:56 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wading through the intertidal waters, as the sun was setting on a rainy summer's day.

Photographed in Betty's bay, South Africa.

#photooftheday #BlueskyArtShow #Stunday #rainbow #seascape #landscape #cloudscape #fineartphotography

15.02.2026 06:57 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Beautiful capture, Andrew!

11.01.2026 18:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Beautiful capture!

22.12.2025 11:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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#Sunset vibes in Betty's bay.

Watching waving rolling in at golden hour.

#Stunday #BlueskyArtShow #photography

07.12.2025 05:32 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Beautiful

18.11.2025 12:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Today, I watched some African Penguins being released back into the wild at Stony Point Penguin Colony.

These birds are critically endangered, with only about 8300 breeding pairs left. This was a special day.

08.11.2025 20:34 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Beautiful capture, Tommy!

26.10.2025 15:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Lovely shot, Mike

26.10.2025 15:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good morning to you to Gerald. Thank you so much!

26.10.2025 09:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Black and white photo of praying mantis nymph, likely the South African praying mantis. 

The mantis sits holds to the surfave of a broad leave, and the background positioned to the right is blurred.

Black and white photo of praying mantis nymph, likely the South African praying mantis. The mantis sits holds to the surfave of a broad leave, and the background positioned to the right is blurred.

Early this year I had the privelage relocating a dozen baby praying mantis from our living room couch (I assumed they hatched nearby), into our garden. This baby I put on the surface of a canna leave, a surface right next to thick bushes which would provide ample cover.

#BnWmacro #Blueskyartshow

25.10.2025 18:17 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you, Ketzer!

17.09.2025 05:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stunning capture, Henrik!

16.09.2025 12:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The exact same photo in colour vs black and white.

What do you think #Bluesky, which one is your favourite?

#blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #colourful #EastCoastKin #sunset

16.09.2025 11:57 — 👍 30    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Beautiful capture, Michael!

16.09.2025 11:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Stunning capture, Damian!

16.09.2025 11:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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An adorable baby freshwater #turtle (Cape Terrapin) found in our garden. I released it in pond close by.

#BlueSky #southafrica #wildlife

09.09.2025 18:18 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sunset at Betty's Bay last weekend.

Temperatures are slowly warming here, the days are getting longer and I am truly looking forward to #summer.

#BlueskyArtShow #seascape #landscape #EastCoastKin

06.09.2025 10:16 — 👍 47    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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A peaceful evening at the beach #Stunday

#seascape #sunset #Bettybay

31.08.2025 19:49 — 👍 53    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stunning capture, Dave!

30.08.2025 09:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Of cause. I think we also tend to foget that nature can be brutal.

29.08.2025 15:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stunning capture! What a sighting. Must have been something to witness.

28.08.2025 08:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you, John!

24.08.2025 14:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Reflections at sunset.

Pieceful, quite times with some penguins at a tidal pools in Betty's Bay.

#Stunday #SouthAfrica #minimalism #tranquil #ArtYear #Fineart

24.08.2025 11:19 — 👍 22    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Ready for a storm -
A winter sea
A mountain range
Clouds - heavy, dark, dense.

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#BlueskyMonday #nature #storm #dramaticsky #cloudy #moody #naturegram #seascape #ArtYear #PhotographersofBluesky #EastCoastKin #BlueskyArt #BlueskyCommunity

19.08.2025 06:45 — 👍 27    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Beautiful capture!

19.08.2025 06:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Beautiful Eric!

12.08.2025 13:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stunning capture!

09.08.2025 18:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you!

09.08.2025 13:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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