penguins on the beach

December 2015

*by PAUL BRUINS--Boulders Beach is a beautifully secluded little beach near Simon's Town, South Africa. It is made up of small coves and inlets between huge granite boulders, from which its name originates. In 1983 a pair of African jackass penguins were spotted on the adjacent Foxy Beach, and in 1985 they began to lay eggs. Since then the colony has grown rapidly, increasing initially at about 60% a year.

“As technology improved and digital cameras and panoramic image-stitching software became better at what they were designed to do, so it became easier to take as many photographs as I needed to capture my compositions, confident that the software would join them all together seamlessly into one large image. That was when my photography hobby turned into a passion. Now I could finally capture all that my eyes could see… and more!”

Boulders Beach forms part of the Table Mountain National Park. Check out a great aerial view of Table Mountain by Panorama Paul.

The African penguin is endangered.

Paul Bruins
Paul Bruins

'Panorama Paul' is a semi-retired professional photographer, now living on the edge of the indigenous forest in Knysna, South Africa. His interest in photography was sparked off at an early age while completing a school project to build a pin-hole camera and to develop and print the results in a home-made darkroom. He is a qualified civil engineer, working most of his life for a small company developing computer software for the engineering industry. He never went far without some sort of camera though. From cheap disposables to 35mm SLRs and then to medium format, he has experimented with a large range of equipment and styles. His love of nature and the outdoors saw him moving towards architectural and fine-art landscape photography as his niche using multiple-image panoramas. He recently published a book of his favourite photos over the years in a stunning collection titled  Most Memorable Moments - available at our Bookshop.

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