Rodger Shagam, africanpix

Paarl; South Africa; granite; modern; mountaintop; tall; spires, design, architecture, unusual, extreme, upright, sky

The Afrikaans Language Monument in Paarl near Cape Town in South Africa

Church Square; country church, Sunday morning, pray, sunrise, steeple, autumn, religion

; Paarl; South Africa; granite; modern; mountaintop; tall; spires, architecture, design, high, up, sky

The Afrikaans Language Monument in Paarl near Cape Town in South Africa

Brisbane, skyline, river, accommodation, apartments, view, high, park, landscape, Australia, Oz

A view of apartment blocks from the Story Bridge, Brisbane, Australia

bathing boxes; bathing cubicles; beach; clouds; coast; color image; colour image; holiday; horizontal format; no people; ocean; outdoors; panorama; photography; sand; seaside; sky; vacation

Early morning low tide at Muizenberg Beach, Cape Town, South Africa. Wide angle,180 degrees

Chameleon; camouflage; climb; disguise; hide; prey, seek, hunt, vision, 180 degrees, change, colour, match, surroundings, color, claw, hold, tight, creep,

Chameleons vary greatly in size and body structure, with total length from approximately 1 inch (2.5 cm), to 31 inches (79 cm) in the male. Many species are sexually dimorphic, and males are typically much more ornamented than the female chameleons.

Chameleon; camouflage; climb; disguise; hide; prey, seek, hunt, vision, 180 degrees, change, colour, match, surroundings, color, claw, hold, tight, creep,

Chameleons vary greatly in size and body structure, with total length from approximately 1 inch (2.5 cm), to 31 inches (79 cm) in the male. Many species are sexually dimorphic, and males are typically much more ornamented than the female chameleons.

africanpix/rodger shagam, skyline, buildings, landscape, high rise, skyscraper, residential, river, frontage, Brisbane, apartments, hi density, water, ferry, reflection

A view of Brisbane skyline from the Story Bridge

clouds; color image; colour image; float; fly; free as a bird; glide; horizontal format; kelp gull; no people; outdoors; photography; seagull; sky; wind currents

Seagull on the lookout for food. False Bay, South Africa

South Africa; granite; modern; mountaintop; tall; spires, architecture, high, sky

The Afrikaans Language Monument in Paarl near Cape Town in South Africa

city, Sydney, perspective, occupation, crowded, skyline, tilt, high rise, tall, buildings, sky scraper, tower, waterfront, harbour, clouds, sky

The skyline and waterfront of Sydney,AUSTRALIA

fire, fly, fight, water bomb, smoke, burn, heat, temperature, bucket, aeronautic, fighting fire, brave, firemen, pilot, danger, forest fire, rescue

A helicopter drops water on a raging forest fire, this allows the firemen on the ground to approach the burn

Rooftops, houses, cluster, neighbour, close, roofs, corrugated, iron, chimney,

looking down on a cluster of house

Canberra, Australia, capital, building, government, parliament, national flag, rule, govern, architecture

the Australian parliament building in Canberra

camouflage; feelers; green; insect; male; pray; praying mantis, prayer, priest, preacher, humble, hunter, leaf-like, close-up

Praying Mantises are exclusively predatory and their diet usually consists of living insects; larger species have been known to prey on small lizards, frogs, birds, snakes, and even rodents. Most species are known to engage in cannibalism. The majority of mantises are ambush predators, waiting for prey to stray too near. The mantis then lashes out at remarkable speed. Some ground and bark species, however, pursue their prey rather quickly. Prey items are caught and held securely with grasping, spiked forelegs ("raptorial legs"); the first thoracic segment, the prothorax, is commonly elongated and flexibly articulated, allowing for greater range of movement of the front limbs while the remainder of the body remains more or less immobile. The articulation of the head is also remarkably flexible, permitting nearly 300 degrees of movement in some species, allowing for a great range of vision (their compound eyes have a large binocular field of vision) without having to move the remainder of the body.

hairy, sting, wing, legs, launch, bug, insect, wasp, eyes, grip

Sting

Paarl; South Africa; granite; modern; mountaintop; tall; spires, architecture, design, high, sky

The Afrikaans Language Monument in Paarl near Cape Town in South Africa

Singer, van, pick-up, utility vehicle, bakkie, marque, old, vintage, small, light weight, solid, bakkie, ute, utility vehicle, motor, 1937 model, radiator, grill, chrome, bumper,

Fully restored, good as new, 1937 Singer pick-up

Canberra, Australia, capital, building, government, road to rule, flag, loyalty, parliament,

Tha Australian parliament buildings in Canberra

Canberra, Australia, capital, building, government, road to rule, flag, loyalty, parliament, coat-of-arms

The flagpole with the country's flag and coat-of-armas atop the paliament building in Canberra

blend; crawl; creep; eyes; feelers; insect; look; praying mantis; see; stick

A praying mantis pauses in it's journey across a leaf

old door, stable-type, window panes, light, brass knob, kitchen, door, light, exterior, entrance, exit, ope, closed, doorway

light shines through the rectangular glass panes on an old kitchen door

brown, dirty, unclean, feelers, antennae, legs, scramble, hardy, pre-historic, yuch, feelers,

a cockroach it's on it's back

dung, beetle, roll, push, effort, strong, food, nest, black, home, nest, secure, muscle, legs, levers, waste

a dung beetle pushes it's load home

kudu, horns, trophy, display, proud, wall-mounted, rustic, countryside, farm, cottage, door, green door, co-ordinated

Hunting trophy proudly displayed on the front wall of this house in the dry Karroo area of South Africa, painted and colour co-ordinated to match the front door

steam engine, railway, coaches, freight, passengers, steam, smoke, boiler, pressure, pull, train, steam train, puff, load, effort, input, output

a steam engine pulls it's load of coaches up an incline

home, house, sub-economic, cheap, rent, crowded, colours, electricity, services, crowded

Helping reduce the squatter population in South Africa, the government and local municipalities often build very basic accommodation structures with electricity and water connections. Sewage may be through centralized facilities

Big bikes, motorcycle, rally, front wheel, spokes, heavy, breakfast run, outing, drive, tires, shock absorbers, club

motor cycles parked alongside one another, while their owners enjoy a hearty breakfast during a country breakfast run

water, shimmer, ripple, move, flow, sparkle, clear, clean, light, reflection, glow

water ripples in the protected stillness of a small,clear lake

1889; Australia; Melbourne; Queens Bridge; Queens Bridge; brown; flow; muddy; river; silt; solid; structure; water

Queens Bridge, Melbourne, Australia, completed in 1889. After heavy rains the water is a muddy brown colour

cliffs; cormorants; fishing; flock; fly; hunt; rocks; resting, nesting, guano

Cormorants rest after their morning feed

no people, photography, horizontal format, colour image, color image, outdoors, boardwalk, railing, steps, sea, sand, shrubs, fynbos

A boardwalk leads over the shrubbery onto the soft beach sand

beware.watch out; careful; collide; crash; crossing; danger; ignore; indicate; smash, cycle lane, children crossing, school crossing

A car has colided with a sign warning motorists of a a school crossing and cycle lane

bins; dirt road; refuse; rubbish; trash; untidy; waste, filthy, unhygienic, disease, spread, third world,

A mess of rubbish bins, overloaded and left for collection.

Robertson; breeze; color image; colour image; digital; eerie; forest; ghost house; horizontal format; moonlight; night; no people; outdoors; photography; sough; trees; whisper; wind; noise 9.7

aged; dilapidated; mess; motorless; old; old truck; rust; wreck, no people, photography, horizontal format, colour image, color image, outdoors, better days, broken, trashed

A Retired truck lies stripped and rusting outside a workshop

Du Toits Kloof; access; macadamized; mountain pass; road; through-way; tunnel, to-the-other-side, way-to-go,

The old Du Toits Kloof road tunnel which has become a scenic drive - a new toll tunnel serves regular traffic

Scale; balance; budget; fast; feather weigh; light; money, weigh, weight, light, heavy, brass, delicate, small, low value, low return, light return,

a feather is weighed (balanced against coins) on the tray of an old pharmaceutical scale

bins; dirt road; refuse; rubbish; trash; trash; untidy; waste

Overflowing rubbish bins waiting to be cleared and the mess cleaned.

boats; bouys; fishing; floats; mariner; prepared; ready; rope; shipshape; waiting, ready to roll, put to sea, coiled, stowed

the ropes on a fishing boats,coiled and stowed, ready for the next trip to sea, to the fishing grounds

cracked; crinkle; leather; pattern; tough; worn, things, comfortable, soft, grain, fold,

Well-worn leather, improves with time

antique; buckle; dry; leather; old; rusted; scuffed; worn, history, brittle, stitched, pressed, moulded, scuffed, scratched

An old leather harness, neglected over the years and in need of a good oiling and TLC

Harbour Bridge; Luna Park; Sydney; opera house; river; water, arch, span, across, over, Australia, Oz

The Sydney Harbour bridger showing the Opera House and Luna Park

Circular Quay; Sydney; boats; depot; ferries; river; water, transport, Opera House, Australia, Oz

Sydney Opera House from the Sydney Harbour Bridge with Circular Quay on the right

bump; bumpy; cobbles; cobblestones; colour image; horizontal format; no people; pass; passage; pathway; road; through; walkway, daylight, outdoors, color image, photography

cobblestones in Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town,South Africa

beach; color image; colour image; direction; footprints; hike; horizontal format; impression; low tide; mud; no people; outdoors; photography; sand; sole; trail, direction, forward, destination

A footprint in the sand of a False Bay Beach near Cape Town, South Africa

Brisbane; color image; colour image; digital; horizontal format; no people; outdoors; photography; picnic; river; riverbank; shade; shore line; trees, Australia, Oz

The banks along the Brisbane River are a popular meeting and picnic spot

antique; buckle; dry; leather; old; rusted; scuffed; worn, scuffed, broken, cracked, stitched, pressed, moulded,

an old leather harness in need of TLC and a good oiling

cracked; grain; orange; Oregon; pattern; wood, knot, marked, burnt, split, aged,

old wood, pine from Oregon

cracked; grain; orange; oregon; pattern; wood, knot, marked, burnt, split, aged,

Old wood. Pine from Oregon

color image; colour image; digital; horizontal format; no people; outdoors; photography, metal, steel, structure, bridge, Story Bridge, road, crossing, Australia, Oz,

The Story Bridge spans the Brisbane River

barred; closed; colour image; door; entrance; entry; keep out; locked; mystery; no entry; no people, photography, color image, colour image, horizontal format

A door that leads to .... is it a chamber of horrors? An asylum ward? A secret facility?

Chameleon; camouflage; climb; disguise; hide; prey, seek, hunt, vision, 180 degrees, change, colour, match, surroundings, color, claw, hold, tight, creep,

Chameleons vary greatly in size and body structure, with total length from approximately 1 inch (2.5 cm), to 31 inches (79 cm) in the male. Many species are sexually dimorphic, and males are typically much more ornamented than the female chameleons.

collapse; color image; colour image; concrete; condemned; dilapidated; exposed; horizontal format; indoors; no people; old; photography; reinforced; rust; steel; structure

An exposed piece of steel reinforcing peeps through a crumbling concrete wall

fire escape, building, tall, old, way out, escape, rescue, steps, ladder, climb, up, down get way

tram, rail, tracks, electric, overhead wires, crossing, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oz, transport, public, people carrier,

A typical tram in Melbourne,Australia

beach; cold; depressing; miserable weather; muizenberg; rain; wet; winter, no people, panorama, color image, colour r

Summer beach resort in winter

Atlas; Oryx M1; 1206; helicopter; general purpose; 22 Sqn; 22 Squadron; SAAF; South African Air Force; level flight; blue sky

Oryx Military helicopter, South Africa

totem poles, history, story, folk tale, carving, painted, memorial, memory, Melbourne, Australia, Oz,

Aboriginal totem poles in Melbourne,Australia

cottage, farm worker, live, abode, fence, lonely, barren, landscape, dry, drought, parched, africanpix/Rodger Shagam, away; barbed wire.; distance; disappeas; far; fence; hills. koppies; horizon; infinity; koppies; mountains, Karroo, South Africa, barren, desolate, heat, hot,

A lborer's cottage stands forlornly in the dusty dry landscape

color image; colour image; digital; horizontal format; two people; outdoors; photography, walkway, covered, gardens, vegetation, lush, Australia, Oz

A shaped,sculpture-type public walkway along the banks of the Brisbane River

Music; bass; beat; break; duo; instrument; pause; play; quartet; rest; trio; double bass

Jazz concert, break

facade, front, entrance, imposing, traffic, people, busy, bustling, many people, photography, digital, outdoors, horizontal format, Melbourne, Australia, Oz

The main entrance to Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, Australia

white, Greek, Greece, sunshine, sun, glare

A man nods off in the heat of the day.

alley; alleyway; cluster; lane

graffiti at the end of the alley, stone steps

Olifants River; bridge; flow; old bridge; railing; reeds; river; stream; water, railway, road, reeds, wetland, rural, no people, countryside, colour image, color image, vertical format, outdoors, photography, mirror, still, quiet, peaceful

An old rail and road bridge over the Olifants River near Clanwilliam, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

city, buildings, viewpoints, aerial, fly-over, blur, high rise, built-up, metropolis, streets, city block,

looking down from a height onto a cityscape of buildings,roads, people

Garden Acraea; arum; butterfly on lily; insects; lily; minimalist; plants; stamen; wetland flower; white; yellow

butterfly has a rest on the petal of an arum lily

brick; bricks; historical; layers; old; rows; secure; stable; stack; stone; strong; structure; support; wall; weathered, red, baked, clay, stacked, laid, layered, baked, photography, color image, colour image, horizontal format, no people, outdoors

An old brick wall, as strong as the days when it was originally built

Muddy, Yarra River, river, flow, buildings, sky scrapers, city, bridge, office block, tower, river bank, photography, digital, outdoors, horizontal format, Australia, Oz

A view of the Southbank,in Melbourne,Australia

Spanner; fasten; nut; stainless steel; steel; fix; tighten; grip; turn; tight; build; motor; repair; maintenance; tool; no people; indoors; studio shot; vertical format; colour image; color image; photography

A spanner with a stainless steel nut shot in studio

daisies, viewpoint, distant wall, open, grow, petals, stems, opening, sun, sunrise, early morning, greet the sun, spring flowers, buds, orange

Spring flowers (daisies) open to greet the sunrise

bend; craft; ethnic; form; market; wire; wire-work, craft, art, names, words, craftsman, bent, formed, photography, color image, colour image, no people, outdoors

rows of words and names formed by local craftsmen, lie for sale, on the pavement - Cape Town, South Africa

cormorant; fly; take-off, bird, sea, no people, vertical format, color image, colour image, photography, runway, copy space

a cormorant does it's run on the water as it becomes airborne,

brickwork; broken; burned; burnt; charred; color image; colour image; cracked; destroyed; exposed; fire; gable; no people; outdoors; photography; plaster, vertical format, wrecked, demolished

A starck gable against a winter sky after the fire. Roberston, Western Cape Province, South Africa

color image; colour image; cut; firewood; horizontal format; logs; no people; off-cuts; outdoors; photography; pile; saw mill; scrap; stacked; trees; wood; wood mill

Logs and off-cuts at a busy sawmill. Western Cape Province, South Africa

dead; gumtree; leafless; lifeless; ring-barked; tall; trunk; no people; vertical format; color image; colour image; photography; outdoors.grey skies, minimalist, bare, naked

Dead gum tree on the slopes of Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa

bale; broken; hay; old; round; spokes; straw; wagon wheel; wooden; worn, hay, horizontal format, color image, colour image, photography, no people

Wooden wagon wheel on a bale of straw

windmill; water; borehole; supply; well; turn; wind; no people; spin; turn; blow; color image; colour image; outdoors; horizontal format, blades, wind power, agriculture, farm, farming, irrigation

A borehole windmill. Western Cape Province, South Africa

city, high, high-rise, buildings, skyscrapers, height, tall, viewpoint, blocks, city blocks, roads, hustle and bustle, busy, metropolis, busy

a blurred image of a cityscape from high above

color image; colour image; digital; egg timer; horizontal format; no people; outdoors; photography; reel; sands of; time; timer

An old wooden cotton reel transformed into an egg timer

off-road; drive; bundu; bundu bash; savanna; grassland.safari; hunting; Africa; no people; horizontal; color image; colour; acacia tree; grass, photography

Driving cross-country in the savanna of kwaZulu-Natal

bolts; fasteners; fixers; nuts; secure; stainless steel; steel; thread; stainless steel; mild steel; brass; photography; colour image; color image; vertical format, scattered, thread, twist, turn, tight, fix, close

Nuts and bolts lie scattered about in big pile

boats; buoys; bridge; fishing; floats; mariner; prepared; ready; rope; shipshape; waiting

A stack of marker bouys lies on the deck of a crayfish boat. These are used to mark the spot where the crayfish traps are dropped.

colourful; decorated; delicate.on-sale; for sale; glazed; ostrich eggs; painted

Ostrich eggs on display. decorated and polished and ready to go

color image; colour image; digital; horizontal format; no people; outdoors; photography, antique, old, book, read.spectacles, glasses, leatherrrr bound, copperplate

An old copperplate volume on the history of Europe

Building; bricks, mortar; construct; erect; re-enforcing; roof; scaffold; steel; tools; black and white image; horizontal format; many people, build, construction, factory, building site, heavy duty, girder, outdoors

Men work on a construction site,erecting the steel frame of what will become a manufacturing plant or factory

African; busy; ethnic; herbal medicine; intense; market; taxi rank; transport; variety, one person, colour image, color image, outdoors, photography, horizontal format

Selling herbal medicine (and maybe a bit of cannabis)

bird hide; color image; colour image; horizontal format; lake; look; no people; observe; outdoors; peep; photography; quiet; see; stealth; vlei; walkway; watch; wetland; wooden structure, no people, reeds, wetland, boardwalk

A bird hide over a wetland in Velddrif, Western Cape Province, South Africa

Pool, swim, swimming pool, Here comes summer, water, wet, jump, dive,

A pool shown through a wide angle lens

Cadillac de Ville; horizontal image; black and white with colour; one person; horizontal format; radiator; grill; color; colour; head-on; collectors item; car; vehicle, yank tank, metal, travel, motor vehicle, car, motor, journey,

A black and white/colour image in graphic form of a 1967 Cadillac de Ville

expose; reveal; show; snail; slide; crawl; move; colour image; color image; horizontal; no people, mucous, outdoors, slow, no people, pattern

as the snail slide over a leaf, it exposes the bright colours on the surface

blinker; buckle; chapped; harness; horse; leather; old; rust; tired; worn, no people, colour image, color image, outdoors, photography, horizontal format

Old leather harness,dehydrated, in need of repair

color image; colour image; digital; horizontal format; no people; outdoors; photography, broken, chain, necklace, links, silver,

A broken link on a silver chain neck;ace

pebbles; stones, beach, strand

PEBBLES ON THE BEACH

color image; colour image; digital; horizontal format; no people; outdoors; photography, skl88, glass, water, half full,

skl88

District Six; accommodation; color image; colour image; desolate; grass; grow; horizontal format; no people; outdoors; panorama; photography; removed; row houses, outdoors, slope, edge, hill, hillside, flats, apartment, living space, view, cloud,

Fawley Terrace, under Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa

St Helena Bay; fishing boats; harbour; jetty; nets; pier; trawlers; stern; South Africa, catch, fish, sea, ocean, no people

Rolled up nets on a stern trawler in harbour

color image; colour image; digital; horizontal format; no people; outdoors; photography, lipstick, glass, lead crystal, cut, glass, tumbler, drink,

A lipstick lies on the table next to a glass

electric; frets; guitar; heavy metal; play; power; rhythm; strings

Fender Stratocaster, 2009,first released in 1954, Serial No C7509766, Made in USA. Fender Stratocaster - This silver unit was hand made by Todd Krause at the fender custom shop in the USA for the existing owner a year ago so there is only one in the world, it has a beautiful bird's eye maple neck. Elements where personally selected and custom made. Todd Krause also builds for Eric Clapton.