Operation Wildflower Mobi
  • Home
  • Albums
  • Links
    • Botanical Gardens
    • OWF Sites
    • Public Parks, Gardens and Reserves
    • Reference Sites
    • Private Parks, Gardens and Reserves
  • Information
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Articles
    • Plant Records
      • Aloes
      • Bulbs
      • Climbers
      • Cycads
      • Euphorbias
      • Ferns
      • Grasses
      • Herbs
      • Orchids
      • Parasites
      • Shrubs
      • Succulents
      • Trees
    • Sources of Information
Home Home » HABITAT » Mountains » Come here!
Back to Category Overview
Total images in all categories: 10,642
Total number of hits on all images: 5,331,852

Come here!

Come here!
Previous Previous
Image 17 of 70  
Next Next
Image 19 of 70  
  • Anybody for poker?
  • Aristaloe aristata
  • Aristea capitata near Bainskloof
  • Berzelia lanuginosa near the base of a rocky slope
  • Bietou, fonteinbos and lots more
  • Brunsvigia herrei on a rocky Richtersveld slope
  • Camel Rock near Constantia Nek
  • Cliff face living quarters
  • Come here!
  • Crassula arborescens and Tylecodon paniculatus
  • Crassula brevifolia subsp. brevifolia
  • Crassulas clinging to a cliff
  • Disa ferruginea
  • Drosera trinervia on the beaten track
  • Edmondia pinifolia not easily missed
  • Elephant in mountain shape
  • Erica strigilifolia, a mountain-top species

Image information

Description

Mountains are colour magicians. The near ones help the far ones in painting contrasts: glossing over detail in the blue distance, exposing celebration starkly juxtaposed to deprivation in the foreground.

It cannot only be the physical challenge and danger that bring back the mountaineer over a lifetime. The quiet solitude of the rugged setting beats ordinary silence in isolation. Plant-draped rock under a film of earth extends endlessly, bestowing solemn communion with the best of this world in the cathedral cool of bright day.

Heartbeat is enhanced over voice when the reality of being alive suggests possibilities of greater awareness. This is the movie of the year that should not be missed.

Hits
212
Photographer
Thabo Maphisa
Author
Ivan Latti
 
Back to Category Overview
Powered by JoomGallery