aerial view of Table Mountain
*by PAUL BRUINS--This was my best attempt at capturing the highest resolution aerial photograph ever taken of Cape Town and Table Mountain. It’s a 3-image handheld panorama, photographed through the open door of a slow-moving light-aircraft. March 2016

There are many other great landscape shots by ‘Panorama Paul’ on Teambooktu.

South Africa’s Table Mountain was formally inaugurated one of the world’s new seven wonders of nature in 2011 after a global poll. Table Mountain joined the Amazon rainforest, Vietnam’s Halong BayArgentina’s Iguazu FallsSouth Korea’s Jeju IslandIndonesia’s Komodo and the Philippines’ Puerto Princesa Underground River as the newly listed wonders. The table-top mountain towers over Cape Town.

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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