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26 photographs, the alphabet and the love for both photography and South Africa!

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Z - Zest

Where Taken: Johannesburg When you speak of the word ‘Zest’, the first thing that comes to my mind is a lemon, but what exactly does zest mean? As a definition, the zest of a lemon is the outer, colourful skin that is often added to food to give

Y - Young

Where Taken: Johannesburg “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”                                

X - eXtreme

Where Taken: Johannesburg South Africa is a country with eXtreme greatness, with huge prosperity and with a nation full of colour. As is the crocodile; it is an eXtreme specimen with a biting force that could lift a small truck, with an incomprehensible amount of heart, with an

W - Wonderful

Where Taken: Nelspruit In general, if you ask any parent what the greatest thing in their life is they are sure to say their kids. There is a spiritual and everlasting unification between parents and their children and just like it is in the wild, there is

V- Vintage

Place Taken: Greyton It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.            

U - Unbelievable

Place Taken: Greyton This photograph was taken in a very small town in the Cape, called Greyton. All I can say is that we live in an unbelievable place! And as we all know there are some good things and some bad things, but lets keep our eyes

T - Transport

Place taken: Knsyna Transport is relied upon by millions of people in the world and especially in Africa. The South African public transport system is very much undeveloped with the major means of transport being minibus taxi’s; many of which are un-road worthy and are packed full of people

S - System

Place taken: Knsyna Everything in life is part of a system starting from the smallest creatures on earth to the largest. This principal can be applied to the growth of a country where we are all part of a chain where weak links hold us back from achieving

R - Reality

Place taken: Midlands   The realities of living in South Africa are both negative and positive; however one that is prominent in my mind is the beauty that our country beholds. “The dramatic shapes of the Drakensberg, the soil-coloured waters of the Lekoa, iGqili noThukela, and the

Q - Quest

Place taken: Nelspruit Our quest, our mission, our goal, is to make South Africa an even greater country than it is today. There may be crime, there may be poverty; there always will be. But let us, together, make a change and work together creating a

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