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How To Get The Most Out of A Self-Drive Tour

Namibia has been my obsession for the past few years. I have traveled to this photography mecca on three occasions and loved every moment of my time exploring both the wildlife-rich north of the country and the landscape rich south. This article will be a brief overview of where to go and how to shoot the highlights of southern Namibia with some ideas for how to get unique images of these well-photographed locations.
Any cursory landscape image search for ‘Namibia’ will throw up many images of the same few locations. Deadvlei with its silhouetted dead trees. Sossusvlei with its red sand dunes. Quiver trees standing before the milky wa...

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Morden O'Hare
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Morden is an amateur photographer with a passion for wildlife, travel and landscape photography. He has focused mainly on landscape photography in Australia and wildlife photography on trips to Botswana, Kenya and Namibia. He enjoys blogging and writing about his experiences online and has produced an eBook. With a lifelong interest in Africa he is particularly invested in the images he has made there, especially in the knowledge that the awareness and emotion that can be portrayed in photographs by visitors to the continent, can play a small part to preserve Africa’s dwindling wild places and animals. He lives with in the South West region of Western Australia and makes a living in the building design profession, doing photography when he finds the time.
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