Digital Desert

January 13, 2009 ·

Michael Reichmann

By: Scott L. Robertson

My wife, Nicci, and I visited the southwest African country of Namibia and the Western Cape region of South Africa in October and November of 2002. This was our first trip to Africa, and though some of our family and friends were quite concerned when we announced our plans to rent a car and drive ourselves around both countries (on the wrong side of the road for North Americans and on rough and dusty dirt and gravel roads), we did our homework planning the trip and it turned out to be a fantastic success. Another first for me was traveling and shooting exclusively with a digital SLR. This article is intended to provide advice and information about traveling and photographing in this part of the world with a digital camera. You can also read a detailed, though not photography-centric, travelogue of our trip athttp://www.slrobertson.com/articles/africa2002/.

Red Sand Dunes, Sossusvlei, Namibia, 2002Nikon D1X and 17-35mm f/2.8 AFS lens @ 17mm, f/14This odd p...

Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.

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