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Intimate view in the Kalahari Desert

Intimate view in the Kalahari Desert

Imagine sleeping in the dry and dusty Kalahari desert. Then you open your eyes, because sudden wind hits your tent. You open the door of tent and go to check out what is going on. And then… this! Even in the dusty air the view in the sky was incredible… As shown on annotated version,…
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Dining in Dqae: Better than TV

Have you ever dreamt about dining under the Milky Way? Well, trust me – it’s better than watching TV! When I came to Greg Laws’ large farm Dqae Qare in Botswana, I didn’t even think about something like that. But thanks to Greg’s hospitality and incredible helpfulness me and my friends could enjoy this unusual…
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Calm oversleeping in Tsubes

Deep in northwest Namibia lies a small village Tsubes, not so far from legendary Pertfied forests. If you decide to stay the overnight, you can bet on one of the calmest experience in your life. The place is just magnificently quiet, far from all cities and wild animals either. There’s almost no civilization, but only…
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Paranal before the daybreak

In the Chilean Atacama desert, 2635 metres high above the sea level, there is ESO’s Paranal observatory – one of the most spectacular observatory in the world. When you stay there and watch the pure beauty of the Universe on the technically perfect platform of the observatory with one of the world’s biggest telescopes, you…
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Magical Quivertree forest moment

As I am not the daytime photographer, I usually just enjoy natural moments before the night finally comes. But sometimes the circumstances just make an opportunity to make interesting shot anyway. Such as in this case. The sunset over the Quivertree forest of Namibia, on 29th September 2015, was of those unique moments. While walking…
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La Silla ear vs. Milky Way ear

The ESO’s La Silla observatory is one of the most photogenic place for astro-photography in the world. This image seems to be total prove. On the horizon, there is the road between Swedish submillimeter “ear” (left), listening to the Universe, and the hill with the dome of 3.6m telescope (right). Up above the dome you…
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All the dust above the Kalahari

While we were oversleeping in the Kalahari desert on 13th September 2013, the sandy air covered all the views around the horizon of Dqae Qare Farm. But the skies were full of much more farther dust. First at all the interstellar dust in the “falling” Milky Way, making a rich structures of of dark nebulae.…
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