Daily Photo – Schoonspruit Entertainment

Daily Photo – Schoonspruit Entertainment
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In this case a storm rolls by to our north with lightning forks illuminating the surrounding skies. You can even see a lightning trail within the cloud. Off in the top left corner, the moon attempts to shine through the clouds.

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Daily Photo – Schoonspruit Evening

Daily Photo – Schoonspruit Evening
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The image below was taken about a month later but the key elements remains the same. In this photo, the sun has dipped below the horizon to camera left but is still illuminating the tops of the clouds. The moon is already bright in the sky.

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Daily Photo – Schoonspruit Sunset

Daily Photo – Schoonspruit Sunset
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Here's another of those wonderful Free State sunsets. A tree, a wind pump, telephone lines and a farm building are silhouetted against a burning orange sky following the setting of the sun while bands of clouds hang ominously in the sky.

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Daily Photo – Schoonspruit Storm

Daily Photo – Schoonspruit Storm
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I took this image at a place I've noted as being Schoonspruit in the Free State, back in December 1988. But it doesn't appear to be the Schoonspruit that Google…

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Daily Photo – Willem Pretorius Game Park

Daily Photo – Willem Pretorius Game Park
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This photo was taken a few months after the sunset photo while on a different trip. It's taken from one of the rocky outcrops in the north-east corner of the park looking to the north-west. I've always liked these wide open vistas. They provide a sense of a world without limits.

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Daily Photo – Chrysler Building

Daily Photo – Chrysler Building
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