starry night over telescope

August 2016

*by PAUL BRUINS--This is a massive 12-image panorama of one of the KAT-7 telescopes under the Milky Way, at the SKA radio-telescope installation near Carnarvon in South Africa’s Great Karoo.

“The biggest problem with trying to photograph a beautiful landscape is selecting which part of it to capture. How do you squeeze all that beauty into one frame? Why can’t the camera capture everything that my eyes can see? This was both disappointing and inspirational to me, and I was determined to find a way to solve this problem. Sticking 35mm prints together with tape was certainly less than ideal.”

A remote protected reserve around Carnarvon, with hills providing an extra shield against radio interference, this is the main African base for hundreds of antennae.

Another breath-taking shot by Paul Bruins on Teambooku: Boulders Beach

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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