Graham Hobbs Photography Plus

What is the Karoo? It’s conical koppies and sculpted mountains banded by stacks of volcanic dolorite, it’s orange soil and sand-rivers, patchy grass and acacia scrub, cactuses and aloes, kudu and springbok. But it’s more than that. It’s the sisal and prickly pear, the gum trees and poplars, cypresses and pines brought in with the sheep and goats by generations of settlers. It's a working landscape of windpumps and high fences and rows of telegraph poles or power-lines that trek across vast empty vistas, a place where men wring what living they can from the land. It’s a landscape that can never slake its thirst, of boom and bust, of yesterday crumbling into today and tomorrow always being round the next corner. It’s a place that seeps into your blood and takes a hold of your heart.