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'; } if (temp != '') { temp = temp + ''; } if (temp == '') { document.getElementById('imageDetails').style.display = 'none'; } else { document.getElementById('imageDetails').style.display = 'block'; } document.getElementById('imageDetails').innerHTML =temp; } else { debug('Redirecting to id ' + photos[nextImg].id); window.location = 'photo_' + photos[nextImg].id + '.html'; } } /*************************************************************************** * Show the previous image for a gallery. field = hidden field containing * * image_id * * img = reference to image object in which to show image * ***************************************************************************/ function previous(field,img) { imageID = field.value; for (j = 0; j < photos.length; j++) { if (photos[j].id == imageID) { break; } } debug('image is ' + j); nextImg = -1; k = j -1; while (nextImg < 0) { for (; k >= 0; k--) { if (photos[k].galleries_id == photos[j].galleries_id) { nextImg = k; break; } } if (nextImg == -1) { k = photos.length -1; } } if (nextImg != -1) { updateImage(nextImg, field,img); } } /*************************************************************************** * Pick a photo at random from the featured images of a gallery. * * Gallery_id = id of gallery to choose * * img = reference to html image * * in which to show image * ***************************************************************************/ function showGalleryImage(gallery_id, img) { debug('Gallery = ' + gallery_id); for (i = 0; i < galleries.length; i++) { if (galleries[i].id == gallery_id) { imageID = randomListVal(galleries[i].featured_images); for (j = 0; j < photos.length; j++) { if (photos[j].id == imageID) { img.src = photos[j].thumbnail; img.width = photos[j].thumbnail_width; img.height = photos[j].thumbnail_height; break; } } break; } } } /*************************************************************************** * If we have dynamic HTML * * replace the galleries link with a list that * * doesn't include the current gallery * ***************************************************************************/ function showGalleries(gallery_id) { debug('Showing links for gallery ' + gallery_id); if (!basic) { temp = ''; for (i = 0; i < galleries.length; i++) { debug('Testing gallery ' + galleries[i].id); if (galleries[i].id != gallery_id) { debug('Adding link'); if (temp != '') { temp = temp + ' | '; } temp = temp + '' + galleries[i].title + ''; } } document.all.galleryLinks.innerHTML = 'Other galleries: ' + temp; } } /*************************************************************************** * Create the array of Photo objects * ***************************************************************************/ photos = new Array(); photos[0] = new photo(819482,'63501','KA010','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo Aloe 1jpg.jpg',500,395,'aloe flower 2001','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo Aloe 1jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'I can\'t remember the name of this aloe, but it spattered the winter veld wish splashes of cheery red in the winter of 2001.','','','','',''); photos[1] = new photo(822412,'63511','WC010','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape coast 2jpg.jpg',500,392,'West Cape sunset #1','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape coast 2jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,0, 0,'I seem to remember that the land on the left-hand horizon is Robben Island, but the picture is here for pictorial reasons, not political ones - political symbolism is too confusing for me.','','','','',''); photos[2] = new photo(822470,'63512','FS010','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Free State Golden Gate 2jpg.jpg',500,400,'Brandwag buttress','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Free State Golden Gate 2jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 104,0, 0,'','','','','',''); photos[3] = new photo(1043862,'63501','KA015','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-6001.jpg',500,401,'Karoo flowering','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-6001_thumb.jpg',130, 104,1, 0,'','','','','',''); photos[4] = new photo(822413,'63511','WC020','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape coast chapman\'s peakjpg.jpg',500,390,'Chapman\'s Peak','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape coast chapman\'s peakjpg_thumb.jpg',130, 101,0, 0,'A great coastal drive, a fairly ordinary photograph. I just liked the sun was playing on the rocks.','','','','',''); photos[5] = new photo(823930,'63501','KA020','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo Aloe 2jpg1.jpg',500,395,'Karoo moonrise','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo Aloe 2jpg1_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'As the blue of dusk chases the pink echo of sunset up the Karoo sky, the aloes clutch at the rising moon.','','','','',''); photos[6] = new photo(821636,'63501','WC030','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo Aloe 3jpg.jpg',500,395,'under the Kamanassiberg','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo Aloe 3jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'Not Eastern Cape, I know, but part of the Karoo. On the road to Uniondale, the Kamanassieberge were blue with haze and dappled with cloud. A field of flaming aloes swung into view below them. It wasn’t a good place to stop, but it was an impossible place not to.','','','','',''); photos[7] = new photo(822417,'63511','WC030','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape coast hout bayjpg.jpg',500,400,'the Sentinel','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape coast hout bayjpg_thumb.jpg',130, 104,1, 1,'Contre-jour, it\'s called - against the day. Sometimes, when the day seems most against you, it\'s actually for you. Or maybe it\'s just the Sentinel watching over you, from the entrance to Hout Bay.','','','','',''); photos[8] = new photo(822474,'63512','FS030','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Free State Golden Gate 4jpg.jpg',500,399,'Golden Gate #2','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Free State Golden Gate 4jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 104,0, 0,'','','','','',''); photos[9] = new photo(821640,'63501','KA040','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-4001.jpg',500,397,'sunset aloe','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-4001_thumb.jpg',130, 103,1, 1,'The light of the sun was too bright for my eyes as it cut the ragged mountains from the sky and sprayed out sparks that ignited the veld, so I hid behind an aloe.','','','','',''); photos[10] = new photo(822458,'63511','WC040','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape coastjpg.jpg',500,391,'West Cape sunset #2','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape coastjpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,0, 0,'','','','','',''); photos[11] = new photo(822475,'63512','FS040','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Free State Golden Gate 5jpg.jpg',500,395,'Golden Gate #3','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Free State Golden Gate 5jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'','','','','',''); photos[12] = new photo(821642,'63501','KA050','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo Aloe 6jpg.jpg',500,397,'Karoo aloe','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo Aloe 6jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'These are the national colours of the Karoo, tawny brown, olive green and khaki with rust-red aloe flowers and achingly blue skies. Allow in a brilliant white cloud or two, to balance the composition, but don’t believe their promises.','','','','',''); photos[13] = new photo(822460,'63511','WC050','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape damjpg.jpg',500,389,'Theewaterskoof dam','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape damjpg_thumb.jpg',130, 101,0, 0,'Its a strange and strangely beautiful place of mountains and water and drowned trees, and when the mountains draw in Atlantic storms you have a choice - you can cross by the bridge or over the rainbow.','','','','',''); photos[14] = new photo(822476,'63512','FS050','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Free State poplarsjpg.jpg',500,392,'Free State poplars','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Free State poplarsjpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,1, 1,'I don\'t remember exactly where this was taken, but I do remember that insistent nudging feeling you get when a scene wants you to stop the car and photograph it. Somewhere in the Free State','','','','',''); photos[15] = new photo(981372,'63501','KA055','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-13JPG.jpg',500,397,'moon, aloe and Lokasiekop','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-13JPG_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 1,'Align all the elements: the aloe - of course - the blue streak of Nqweba Dam refecting the sunset sky, the rising moon and Lokasiekop, location hill, the other side of the tracks. What does it all amount to? A picture of a time and place, no more. Or is that no less?','','','','',''); photos[16] = new photo(822462,'63511','WC060','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape Eveningjpg.jpg',500,398,'walking the dog','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape Eveningjpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 1,'One by one the people left the beach as the winter sun sunk lower in the sky. Soon, all that was left were their footprints in the sand. One last dog-walker went on his way, unaware that he\'d saved my evening from being washed away by the tide.','','','','',''); photos[17] = new photo(822463,'63511','WC070','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape Gullsjpg.jpg',500,395,'gulls at the Table','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape Gullsjpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,1, 1,'I was sitting on Blouberg Strand, eating fish and chips and wondering if it was worth taking the classic view of Table Mountain. Thousands of people do so every year, and the light wasn\'t even good. A gull came and eyed my chips. I threw one to it. Soon eight friends arrived. I threw another chip, and grabbed my picture as they pounced.','','','','',''); photos[18] = new photo(822360,'63501','KA080','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo Windpumps 2jpg.jpg',500,398,'windpump #2','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo Windpumps 2jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'I’d been asked for a classic Karoo landscape with scrubby veld, purple and blue koppies and a windpump with its blades glinting in the sun. Nothing in life ever conforms quite to the picture that everyone has of it, but you can come close on the road to Murraysberg.','','','','',''); photos[19] = new photo(822465,'63511','WC080','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape Harbourjpg.jpg',500,392,'Cape Town harbour #2','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape Harbourjpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,0, 0,'From the southern tip of Africa, a ship, laden with containers bound for who knows where, slips out into the wide blue yonder.','','','','',''); photos[20] = new photo(982192,'63511','WC085','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-15JPG.jpg',500,397,'Cape geelbos','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-15JPG_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'','','','','',''); photos[21] = new photo(822363,'63501','KA090','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo Windpumps 3jpg.jpg',500,395,'windpump #3','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo Windpumps 3jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,1, 1,'In the warm light of the evening sun, the blades of a windpump blur as a storm rises over a timeless landscape. A small drama of opposing forces played out in a corner of the Karoo.','','','','',''); photos[22] = new photo(822466,'63511','WC090','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape of Good Hopejpg.jpg',500,380,'Cape of Good Hope','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape of Good Hopejpg_thumb.jpg',130, 99,0, 0,'\"I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.\" That\'s a reason for Good Hope.','','','','',''); photos[23] = new photo(822365,'63501','KA100','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo Windpumps 4jpg.jpg',500,391,'derelict windpump','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo Windpumps 4jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,0, 0,'Karoo farmers, like farmers everywhere, never throw anything away, they just let it slip into elegant dereliction. There’s something about dereliction that appeals to people – it seems to tell a sad tale of bright hopes brought down by relentless circumstances. But it beats me why we should want to hear that story, but we do.','','','','',''); photos[24] = new photo(822467,'63511','WC100','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape pinesjpg.jpg',500,396,'Betty\'s Bay','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape pinesjpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'On a squally day, as we drove round the cape peninsula, we spotted a huddle of pines sheltering from the storm in a cleft in the mountains, amongst the geelbos at Betty\'s Bay.','','','','',''); photos[25] = new photo(822469,'63511','WC110','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape Squalljpg.jpg',500,392,'Cape squall','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Cape Squalljpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,1, 1,'It was a spitty sort of day. The air was full of spits of rain, and gobs of spume were trailing off a spit of land. I waited in the squally wind with a supermarket bag over my camera. When at last a shaft of sunlight lit the spit, I snapped and split.','','','','',''); photos[26] = new photo(822371,'63504','KB035','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-7001.jpg',500,397,'derelict farmhouse','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-7001_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 1,'','','','','',''); photos[27] = new photo(822375,'63504','KB040','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo buildings 4jpg.jpg',500,395,'derelict farm #2','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo buildings 4jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'There are pros and cons involved in photographing ruined buildings on the far side of nowhere in the dying rays of the sun. The biggest pro is that the orange light picks up the tones of the soil and stains of brickwork, bringing colour harmony and timelessness to the scene … The biggest con is that you then have to drive home many kilometres along potholed corrugated dirt roads that dip suddenly onto skiddy concrete slabs as they cross dry river-beds or bend for no reason around imaginary obstacles or boundary-lines, in a Passat coupé that is to motoring what these buildings are to a thriving farm.','','','','',''); photos[28] = new photo(822376,'63504','KB050','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo buildings 5jpg.jpg',500,396,'Karoo farmhouse','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo buildings 5jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'This is what the Karoo looks like most of the time, except for the clouds, rolling away over the Cockscomb mountains, having dumped their load of rain on the parched land…','','','','',''); photos[29] = new photo(822379,'63504','KB060','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo buildings 10jpg.jpg',500,397,'after the rain','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo buildings 10jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'… and this is what it looks like a week later as yet more cloud is drawn in off the sea.','','','','',''); photos[30] = new photo(822377,'63504','KB080','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo buildings 6jpg.jpg',500,397,'Karoo farmhouse #2','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo buildings 6jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 1,'Gum trees, sisals, windpump, whitewashed walls, shaded stoep, corrugated roof, long shadows, blue mountain. A vision of simpler times? Not now, not then. It\'s always been a hard land.','','','','',''); photos[31] = new photo(822382,'63504','KB090','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo road 1jpg.jpg',500,399,'Karoo back-road','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo road 1jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 104,0, 0,'You don’t find the Karoo on sealed roads. The Karoo is farming country, with its farms linked to its towns by roads only farmers and photographers drive down. But to know it you have to drive down those roads.','','','','',''); photos[32] = new photo(822383,'63504','KB100','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo road 2jpg.jpg',500,391,'Karoo road-sign','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Karoo road 2jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,0, 1,'Further on, this road climbs vertically up a wall of rutted scree and twists through axle-breaking dongas. The highways department, however, does not think these worthy of signing. Never take the lack of a road-sign as proof there are no hazards in the Karoo. They just don\'t make signs for most of them.','','','','',''); photos[33] = new photo(981397,'63504','KB125','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-21JPG.jpg',500,395,'Karoo back-road #4','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-21JPG_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'','','','','',''); photos[34] = new photo(822387,'63504','KB135','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-8001.jpg',500,397,'iron road','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-8001_thumb.jpg',130, 103,1, 1,'South Africa was no exception. The spoorweg was once the only weg for long distance travel or freight. Now, like in so many places, it is mostly no more than a spookweg, a ghostway.','','','','',''); photos[35] = new photo(818876,'63478','GR010','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Camdeboojpg.jpg',500,395,'Spandau Kop','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Camdeboojpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'The pictorial purist in me objects that the heavy shadow on the left isn’t balanced by anything on the right, but the pictorial purist was probably at home sorting and re-sorting slides while I struggled my way up this steep rise in the hot sun with a heavy camera pack and tripod.','','','','',''); photos[36] = new photo(818878,'63478','GR020','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Graaff-Reinet 1jpg.jpg',500,397,'nightfall over Graaff-Reinet','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Graaff-Reinet 1jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'When my wife first knew Graaff-Reinet, as a young girl, the road up the valley mountain was just a track. Then they broadened it and sealed it. That’s when I first knew it. Then they put up viewing places, a visitor centre, an entry gate. Now there\'s a barrier that closes an hour after sunset, so you can’t take shots like this. Awe and wonder are packaged even in the Karoo, now.','','','','',''); photos[37] = new photo(818879,'63478','GR030','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Graaff-Reinet 2jpg.jpg',500,396,'moonrise over Graaff-Reinet','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Graaff-Reinet 2jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'This picture was planned while I was still in England. I knew that full moon would rise into a dusty eastern sky, made pink by the light of the setting sun, so all I had to do was to go up the valley mountain on the night of a full moon when the sky was clear. Not difficult in the Karoo.','','','','',''); photos[38] = new photo(818943,'63478','GR050','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Graaff-Reinet Dam1jpg.jpg',500,397,'moonrise over the dam','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Graaff-Reinet Dam1jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,1, 1,'Nqweba dam is no longer used to supply the town with water. It’s too shallow, one day bone dry and the next overflowing the dam wall. Here, the drowned stalks of an earlier dry time emerge from the shrinking waters under a rising moon.','','','','',''); photos[39] = new photo(981328,'63478','GR055','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-8JPG.jpg',500,396,'Sisyphus moon','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-8JPG_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 1,'Old Sisyphus, for those who never heard, was doomed to roll a rock to the top of a hill, only for it to roll down again every time he nearly got there. The moon is a bit like that as night after night it climbs Lokasiekop as it has for millions of years.','','','','',''); photos[40] = new photo(818944,'63478','GR060','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Graaff-Reinet Dam 2jpg.jpg',500,395,'the dam wall','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Graaff-Reinet Dam 2jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'It says a lot about small towns that when the Graaff-Reinet dam wall was completed in 1925 it was furnished with street lights and was the fashionable place to promenade. For some time it has been closed to promenaders, supposedly because too many threw themselves off it. Says a lot about small towns, that.','','','','',''); photos[41] = new photo(981360,'63478','GR063','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-44JPG.jpg',500,390,'sacred ibis','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-44JPG_thumb.jpg',130, 101,0, 0,'Its habits are not always as uplifting as its name, and its face, close up, is bald and wrinkled, but there, in the sunset, on the edge of the Nqweba dam, its ancient magic reaches out to touch you.','','','','',''); photos[42] = new photo(970559,'63478','GR065','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-11JPG.jpg',500,397,'Union Monument','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-11JPG_thumb.jpg',130, 103,1, 1,'On the cliff, overlooking the town of Graaff-Reinet, a pyramid,echoing the texture of the palm in front and Spandau Kop beyond. Another monument in a town full of monuments.','','','','',''); photos[43] = new photo(818947,'63478','GR080','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Spandau kop 2jpg.jpg',500,392,'Karoo donga','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Spandau kop 2jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,0, 1,'Spandau Kop is one of the iconic sights of Graaff-Reinet, visible for miles across the flatness of the Camdeboo. That’s from the other side, of course. From this one it’s about as iconic as the dongas that scar the plain below.','','','','',''); photos[44] = new photo(818949,'63478','GR100','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Valley 1jpg.jpg',500,397,'Valley sunset','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Valley 1jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 1,'The Valley of Desolation is Graaff-Reinet’s big scenic draw-card. It’s aligned East-West, and the sun goes down behind it at mid-summer. We’d been up there, like you do to see an old friend after a time away, and watched the sun go down. As we turned to go, the sky exploded.','','','','',''); photos[45] = new photo(818950,'63478','GR110','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Valley 2jpg.jpg',500,398,'Valley sunset #0','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Valley 2jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'This was taken a few minutes before the previous picture. The yellow glow is God lighting the blue touch-paper.','','','','',''); photos[46] = new photo(981391,'63478','GR135','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-6JPG.jpg',500,397,'Camdeboo sunset','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-6JPG_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'Round about sunset landscapes stop being readable terrains and turn into shapes and colours, navigated by the imagination.','','','','',''); photos[47] = new photo(818956,'63478','GR140','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Valley 4jpg.jpg',500,391,'Valley sunrise','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Valley 4jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,0, 1,'Even apart from coming from the opposite direction, the light of sunrise is quite unlike the light of sunset. I’ve never regretted getting up before the sun and driving through the ebbing night to be in position for a sunrise. Never. But that’s seldom enough to make me want to do it again','','','','',''); photos[48] = new photo(1043689,'63478','GR150','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-1001.jpg',500,398,'Spandau Kop trailing clouds','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-1001_thumb.jpg',130, 103,1, 1,'The day before had dawned cold with thick cloud wreathing the mountain like a heavy fog - but we\'d woken early a second day, and tried again...','','','','',''); photos[49] = new photo(818959,'63478','GR160','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Valley 5jpg.jpg',500,403,'Valley sunset #2','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Valley 5jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 105,1, 0,'The good thing about living on the doorstep of a natural artwork is that you can nip out there if you see a good sunset brewing up and go straight to the best place to shoot it from. I don’t dwell on the time when I drove up there early one dull morning to see the tops of the koppies poking like islands out of a sea of white cloud and only had a 400mm lens with me. I’m just grateful for the times I got it right.','','','','',''); photos[50] = new photo(818988,'63478','GR170','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Valley 6jpg.jpg',500,396,'Spandau sunrise','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Valley 6jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'I never did get the sea of cloud shot I mentioned in the last caption. This was one of the closer tries, but the cloud was too high, and melted away too quickly.','','','','',''); photos[51] = new photo(821660,'63478','GR180','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Valley 7jpg1.jpg',399,500,'morning light','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Valley 7jpg1_thumb.jpg',104, 130,0, 0,'You can get fixated with the way the dolerite stacks of the Valley glow orange in the light of dawn or dusk. On a hazy morning or late afternoon, when the light is soft and the blue shadows are long, you can sometimes understand best how high the winding trail has taken you.','','','','',''); photos[52] = new photo(818993,'63478','GR190','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Valley 8jpg.jpg',500,394,'evening light','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Valley 8jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,0, 0,'Ah, but then, who can resist the evening light?','','','','',''); photos[53] = new photo(981363,'63478','GR195','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-34JPG.jpg',500,396,'the classic view','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-34JPG_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'Teddy Whitlock, the pioneer of Graaff-Reinet postcards, was the first to imortalise this view from the end of the Valley of Desolation where it lines up with Spandau Kop and Tandjiesberg. As I follow in his now worn footsteps, this one\'s dedicated to him.','','','','',''); photos[54] = new photo(1043730,'63478','GR210','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-9001.jpg',500,398,'Valley afterglow','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-9001_thumb.jpg',130, 103,1, 1,'And as the sun drops below the western horizon, its echo rises in the east.','','','','',''); photos[55] = new photo(822396,'63510','KO020','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/groenvlei7jpg.jpg',500,401,'drawing water','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/groenvlei7jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 104,0, 0,'I took a couple of stiff group shots, just to relax people. I cracked a couple of jokes. They still didn’t speak English. Life slowly returned to normal. The women went back to work.','','','','',''); photos[56] = new photo(825502,'63510','KB025','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Groenvlei1jpg.jpg',500,396,'village elders','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Groenvlei1jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'A group of men came back to the village from shepherding the flocks. I pointed to the camera and smiled. The old man, who looked like he was the most important, disappeared into a hut and emerged dressed in a ceremonial woollen headdress and blanket, while his younger companion donned a ceremonial baseball cap and duvet.','','','','',''); photos[57] = new photo(822409,'63510','KO030','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Groenvlei worker 1jpg.jpg',500,383,'portrait of a young man with an axe','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Groenvlei worker 1jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 100,0, 0,'The younger men now set to work, this man to chopping wood. I signed that I would like to take his picture and, unusually, he laid down his axe and stood there grinning. I said the grin was lovely, but would he mind raising the axe. His grin got even wider, and he raised the axe.','','','','',''); photos[58] = new photo(822403,'63510','KO040','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Groenvlei damjpg.jpg',500,395,'groen vlei','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Groenvlei damjpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'Groenvlei, the farm where this picture was taken, means green marsh, which is a bit of an understatement for the upwelling of water that gushes out of the land there. Only the alien trees are impressed, though – the Karoo natives take more convincing.','','','','',''); photos[59] = new photo(822405,'63510','KO050','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Groenvlei farm 2jpg.jpg',500,398,'sheep-herding','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Groenvlei farm 2jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'They’ve got a fine herd of merinos at Groenvlei Farm, and fine shepherds. On the first morning in the guest chalet I could hear the sheep baa-ing off to the fields at sunrise. On the second, I got up before sunrise to watch. No dogs, no sticks, just whistles, which the sheep seemed to understand.','','','','',''); photos[60] = new photo(822408,'63510','KO060','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Groenvlei farmhousejpg.jpg',500,397,'Groenvlei farmhouse','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Groenvlei farmhousejpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 1,'The sheep understood the shepherds so well that they stopped on a whistle. The shepherds understood me so well, that they stopped the sheep in front of the farmhouse. Not a word was spoken on that bright winter’s morning at Groenvlei, but everything was understood.','','','','',''); photos[61] = new photo(822407,'63510','KO070','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Groenvlei farm 3jpg.jpg',500,400,'Goenvlei farm building','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Groenvlei farm 3jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 104,0, 0,'This could just as easily be amongst the Karoo buildings, except that it was a part of Groenvlei Farm, and so it was green and marshy, not hard and dry.','','','','',''); photos[62] = new photo(822411,'63510','KO090','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/People - Craddock windmill sellerjpg.jpg',394,500,'windmill seller','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/People - Craddock windmill sellerjpg_thumb.jpg',102, 130,0, 1,'Four years into democratic rule not much had changed for most South Africans. Those who had the money and feared the consequences had got out before the elections, those who didn’t, stayed and did much what they had always done. If you were black, and living around Craddock, that meant selling model windmills. If you were the sun, it meant beating down mercilessly out of a pure blue sky.','','','','',''); photos[63] = new photo(818798,'63465','SW010','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW010jpg.jpg',500,395,'Swartkops sunset #1','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW010jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'The days in Africa are often bright and confusing and the nights dark and dangerous. In between there’s a moment when everything looks simple and beautiful, even bushfires in the distant hills.','','','','',''); photos[64] = new photo(818800,'63465','SW020','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW020jpg.jpg',500,388,'Swartkops estuary','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW020jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 101,0, 0,'First came the English with their boats, then the Afrikaners with their industry and railway, then, the other side of the tracks, KwaZakhele spread itself over the hills. But people still bring their boats and dig for prawns when the tide goes out, on the Swartkops River.','','','','',''); photos[65] = new photo(818803,'63465','SW030','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW030jpg.jpg',500,395,'Swartkops sunset #2','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW030jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'As the buffeting wind kicks truck-loads of dust into the air, the twentieth century disappears into a fuzzy warm glow. All except for the power station, which is too big, and two men in a boat who’ve escaped it for a while.','','','','',''); photos[66] = new photo(818805,'63465','SW040','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW040jpg.jpg',500,401,'from the N2','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW040jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 104,0, 0,'When you turn your back on the sun it makes everything around you zing with colour, but when you face it, it strips the colour out. Worth remembering, that, if you’re photographer or a sun-god worshiper.','','','','',''); photos[67] = new photo(818811,'63465','SW050','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW050jpg.jpg',500,395,'Swartkops storm','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW050jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 1,'Looking across the Swartkops River, the electric lights of Tippers Creek and Amsterdamhoek are streaked across the surface of the water. Behind, the electricity of the sky is lighting the clouds from within.','','','','',''); photos[68] = new photo(818823,'63465','SW060','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW060jpg.jpg',500,379,'Swartkops storm #2','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW060jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 99,0, 0,'To add a little foreground interest, I turned the camera to include the embankment wall and a moored dinghy, both eerie green in the fluorescent street-lighting. The background took this as a challenge.','','','','',''); photos[69] = new photo(818827,'63465','SW070','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW070jpg.jpg',500,395,'Swartkops aloes','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW070jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'Go up Tippers Creek and you find the entrance to the Aloe Trail, a strip of a nature reserve dedicated to aloes. They open their blazing orange flower-spikes in winter, when the sky and the river are crystal blue. It’s a strip of paradise for sunbirds and photographers.','','','','',''); photos[70] = new photo(981316,'63465','SW075','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-45JPG.jpg',500,389,'Amsterdamhoek afterglow','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-45JPG_thumb.jpg',130, 101,0, 0,'','','','','',''); photos[71] = new photo(981395,'63465','SW076','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-14JPG.jpg',500,387,'Swartkops aloes #2','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-14JPG_thumb.jpg',130, 101,0, 0,'Upriver from the aloe trail, Tipper\'s creek reflects the blue of the winter sky while the Swartkops river winds lazily towards Uitenhage in the pale distance, .','','','','',''); photos[72] = new photo(818828,'63465','SW080','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW080jpg.jpg',500,390,'Swartkops sunrise','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW080jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 101,0, 0,'Port Elizabeth is far enough South for the sunrise to migrate quite a way up and down the estuary with the passing seasons. Fortunately, it rises in the compositionally optimal place in winter, when it also rises late.','','','','',''); photos[73] = new photo(818834,'63465','SW090','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW090jpg.jpg',489,373,'Swartkops moonrise','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW090jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 99,1, 1,'It’s a handy fact that the full moon rises round about sunset. The next day it rises about an hour later. That’s the best time to catch it when the sky is dark enough for the moon to shine bright, but dusk has not yet faded into night. The people on the boat were enjoying the moonrise too.','','','','',''); photos[74] = new photo(818850,'63465','SW110','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW110jpg.jpg',500,393,'Swartkops storm #3','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW110jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,0, 0,'This storm came up suddenly, as they do in Africa. Being a weekend the river was strewn with fishermen’s motor-launches. As the lightning forked across the sky they scuttled for cover, leaving only the trace of their red port lights.','','','','',''); photos[75] = new photo(818854,'63465','SW120','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW120jpg.jpg',500,391,'Swartkops sunset #3','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW120jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,0, 0,'','','','','',''); photos[76] = new photo(818856,'63465','SW130','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW130jpg.jpg',500,392,'Amsterdamhoek','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW130jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,0, 1,'As the setting sun strikes the riverfront houses of Amsterdamhoek the river grows still. Only the sculpting of the sandbars shows how deep and fast it ran as the tide drained into the sea.','','','','',''); photos[77] = new photo(818858,'63465','SW140','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW140jpg.jpg',500,392,'flamingoes','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW140jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,0, 0,'When I first conceived this shot, there were no area lights, few brick or multi–story buildings, just row after row of shacks leading down to the water’s edge. But flamingos come and go according to their own laws, and they had not come. Then I had to leave, and when I returned, the flamingos were back, but the shacks were mostly gone. Never rely on flamingos for your conceptual photography.','','','','',''); photos[78] = new photo(818860,'63465','SW150','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW150jpg.jpg',500,391,'salt pan ally','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/SW150jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,0, 0,'Sometimes you conceive of a shot, plan it carefully, wait for the perfect moment, then execute it. Other times things come together as you work. And sometimes you stumble across an image on your way to do something else. That’s what happened to me here, on the way to photograph flamingos.','','','','',''); photos[79] = new photo(819178,'63495','EC010','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/bushdwellersjpg.jpg',500,390,'bush drama','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/bushdwellersjpg_thumb.jpg',130, 101,0, 0,'If you run into a band of bush-dwellers as the sun sinks in the west, it’s as well to be carrying a big camera on a heavy tripod. It helps, also, to have Dutch courage in your bloodstream and a winning smile. With luck, you might be treated to an unfathomable, never-to-be-repeated, one scene drama. A unique moment, staged only for you.','','','','',''); photos[80] = new photo(819189,'63495','EC020','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E Cape ballooning 2jpg.jpg',500,400,'firing up','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E Cape ballooning 2jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 104,0, 0,'Pointing the jet of flame upwards, the envelope of the balloon is held open as it starts to fill with hot air.','','','','',''); photos[81] = new photo(819190,'63495','EC030','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E Cape ballooning 3jpg.jpg',500,397,'dawn flight','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E Cape ballooning 3jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'I never did work out why the man from the ad agency sailed off in the balloon while the photographer stayed on the ground, then the client complained that they hadn’t got any aerial shots. I suppose being kept aloft by a load of hot air gets to be a habit.','','','','',''); photos[82] = new photo(819191,'63495','EC040','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E Cape ballooningjpg.jpg',500,400,'blasting away','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E Cape ballooningjpg_thumb.jpg',130, 104,0, 0,'','','','','',''); photos[83] = new photo(819193,'63495','EC050','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E cape bushdweller fishing1jpg.jpg',500,376,'baiting up','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E cape bushdweller fishing1jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 98,0, 0,'It’s a sad reflection on life when people leave home for the weekend and camp out in makeshift tents not to commune with the great outdoors but to escape violence. Wait until the sun goes down, they said – that’s when the fish start biting.','','','','',''); photos[84] = new photo(819192,'63495','EC060','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E cape bushdweller fishing 2jpg.jpg',500,380,'throwing out a line','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E cape bushdweller fishing 2jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 99,0, 0,'The fishing lines, each carrying several hooks baited with worms that had been lured from the hard clay soil were swung around the head a couple of times and thrown out into the dam. Old bicycle bells with keys as clappers would tinkle when the fish tugged at the lines. As the sun sunk below the horizon, the bells started to tinkle.','','','','',''); photos[85] = new photo(819194,'63495','EC070','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E cape bushdwellerjpg.jpg',500,393,'Michael','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E cape bushdwellerjpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,0, 0,'Michael shared a name with me. He also shared some thoughts. During the weeks he worked for an Englishman, a lawyer. At weekends he lived off the land, away from the violent township nights. We agreed that there were good men and bad men and the colour of their skin had nothing to do with it. Michael was a good man.','','','','',''); photos[86] = new photo(819198,'63495','EC80','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E Cape Coastjpg.jpg',500,392,'St Francis Bay sunset','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E Cape Coastjpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,1, 1,'Just above the place where the Maitland River, worn out with effort, sinks into the sand only yards short of the Indian Ocean, you can watch the sun go down over St Francis Bay as the wind whips up plumes of golden spray. A lonely beach buggy toils its way back across the deserted sand. Some places just have more golden beaches than people to fill them.','','','','',''); photos[87] = new photo(819195,'63495','EC090','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E Cape Coast 2jpg.jpg',500,390,'St Francis Bay sunset #2','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E Cape Coast 2jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 101,0, 0,'Another day, another sky. This time, a fisherman’s sky.','','','','',''); photos[88] = new photo(982197,'63495','EC095','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-13JPG3.jpg',500,392,'rainbow bay','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/Untitled-13JPG3_thumb.jpg',130, 102,0, 0,'A broken fence and storm-washed sand, the Port Elizabeth seafront standing white against black clouds, and there, a rainbow over Nelson Mandela Bay.','','','','',''); photos[89] = new photo(819196,'63495','EC100','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E Cape Coast 3jpg.jpg',500,393,'Cape Receif','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E Cape Coast 3jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,0, 0,'Anybody who doesn’t like horizons bisecting a photograph will have probably gone off in a huff ages ago, which is a pity, because they would miss the sight of white horses charging off the sea, on the road to Cape Receif.','','','','',''); photos[90] = new photo(819199,'63495','EC110','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E Cape sangomasjpg.jpg',500,394,'apprentice sangomas','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/E Cape sangomasjpg_thumb.jpg',130, 102,0, 0,'You meet some interesting people passing through, miles from anywhere. Very nice people too – happy to pose for a photograph, to arrange themselves with the ease only African people can, but they wouldn’t tell what they were doing, dressed like that, miles from anywhere.','','','','',''); photos[91] = new photo(819200,'63495','EC120','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/East Cape fishingjpg.jpg',500,395,'Glen fishing','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/East Cape fishingjpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'Here’s the story of Glen. Glen liked fishing. It also happens that Glen was the Artistic Director of an advertising agency. When my brother-in-law, Chris, who also liked fishing, invited me along on a fishing trip with Glen, I said yes. As the scene looked nice, I took a photo. Kenny wasn’t such a big fisherman, but he ran a rival advertising agency. He needed pictures of people enjoying themselves in the E Cape. He didn\'t recognise Glen, but agreed that the scene looked nice and used it on an exhibition stand. In Port Elizabeth, the ad-men in the know talk carp.','','','','',''); photos[92] = new photo(819201,'63495','EC130','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/PE harbour 2jpg.jpg',500,401,'Port Elizabeth Docks','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/PE harbour 2jpg_thumb.jpg',130, 104,0, 0,'It’s not so long ago that Port Elizabeth had a working harbour, as you can see here. Now it’s moved up the coast to Coega, and Kenny wanted to put up a statue to Nelson Mandela at the mouth of the old harbour, which a committee changed to a freedom monument. While all this was happening, the barnacles on the dolosses just hung on tight.','','','','',''); photos[93] = new photo(819202,'63495','EC140','gallery','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/PE harbour fishingjpg.jpg',500,395,'Chris fishing','http://www4.clikpic.com/grahamhobbs/images/PE harbour fishingjpg_thumb.jpg',130, 103,0, 0,'This is my brother-in-law Chris fishing. I can’t do better than repeat the quote used when the picture was printed in the Fishing Journal.