Category: Photos

  • This photo was taken with my cell phone from the plane just before landing. In this photo you can see the sprawling township of Soweto to the bottom left (probably less than 5% of the actual township which houses over 3 million people), three huge mine dumps in the front centre and left, and the…

  • Water lily in my fish pond. (c) Cynically Jaded

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  • Masjid-un-Nabawi, Madinah, Arabia. I scanned these photos from postcards that I bought in Madinah on my first trip for Umrah in 1999. It was a spiritually grounding experience. But it was also on this same trip that a taxi driver, whilst parked directly in front of the Haram, robbed me of almost all the cash…

  • An alternate view of Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa. (c) Cynically Jaded

  • Sunset from a natural rock pool in Cape Town, South Africa. (c) Cynically Jaded

  • Twelve Apostles, Cape Town

    Twelve Apostles mountain range in Cape Town, South Africa taken during my trip this week. (c) Cynically Jaded

  • Blyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga, South Africa

    Scenes from Blyde River Canyon in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. Water carved out the beautiful rock formations in Bourke’s Luck Potholes through the centuries while the view from God’s Window allows one to see the ocean over a 1000km (621 miles) away on a clear day, where the air is so thin that you run…