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Flora Western Cape
The primary vegetation type of the Western Cape is fynbos, a term derived from Dutch and Afrikaans words meaning “fine bush,” which typically grows on fairly nutrient-depleted mostly sandstone-derived acidic soils and is dominated by sclerophyllous, that is, evergreen,…
Cape Town Bus Service
MyCiti is the Cape Town bus rapid transit service with feeders that forms a part of a greater Integrated City Public Transport system. The transportation system is being rolled out across the Cape Metropole that provides a significantly enhanced public transport service…
Photographic Metaphors
The Intensity of Photographic Metaphors. Photography originates in what is envisioned rather than what is seen in the human eye, but translated by the camera lens to reveal itself to us. Neither an index, representation, nor copy, a photograph metaphorically represents…
Lady Immigrant Eritrea
The government of Eritrea had setup camp facilities at various locations to handle civilian victims of its war with Ethiopia. The immigrant lady photo was taken after war’s end and during the arrival of UN Peace Keeping forces in Sep 2000. Calm had returned to Eritrea for…
Global Justice
We watch humanity caught in a vortex of abnormalities that were avoidable. Because of its inability to resolve age-old problems, some dating back to the 15th Century and others more current, humanity remains ill prepared to guide a developing global…
Kek Lok Si Temple
Capturing the spirit of Chinese New Year, Feb 2021, at the Kek Lok Si Temple situated in Air Itam, Penang, Malaysia. Traditionally Chinese Lunar New Year activities started as early as three weeks before Chinese New Year’s Eve, but a week before was more usual.
Kuala Lumpur 2020
I decided to explore Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, before returning to Penang. KL boasts of gleaming skyscrapers, colonial architecture, and charming locals whom I met while walking along its streets. The city calls one to explore, to seek out its many wonders,…
Wall Murals George Town Malaysia
The George Town Festival commissioned Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic to create wall murals in 2012. Since then, the street art scene took off in George Town’s historic district with creative expressions done by both local and international artists.
Beautiful Eritrean Ladies
These ladies, to include the featured lady, are of the Kunama indigenous people of Eritrea, a Nilo-Saharan ethnic community living between the Gash and Setit (Mareb) rivers in Southwestern Eritrea, defining part of the boundary between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Kuil Arulmigu Balathandayuthapani Hindu Temple
Kuil Arulmigu Balathandayuthapani Hindu Temple symbolises the Tamil religion heritage, denotes the religious traditions/practices of Tamil-speaking people native to the state of India known as Tamil…
Women Photographers Malaysia
Women Photographers Malaysia hosted a photographic event featuring Canon EOS Ambassador Grate Tan. This event involved a series of lectures, demonstration, and were combined with workshops designed to improve one’s photo-techniques.