Getaway Gallery Photo Competition August 2019 Here’s the latest selection of the best readers’ photographs submitted to the Getaway Gallery Photographic Competition for August 2019. Getaway Gallery is a prestigious showcase of the best photographs our readers have to offer. We have exciting prizes to be won this year worth over R140,000 – from equipment through to a dream trip to Anantara Bazaruto Island Resort, a private paradise in Mozambique’s Bazaruto Archipelago. Vote for your favourite image Every month, you can also vote for your favourite image over on our Facebook page and the winner gets a year’s subscription to Getaway. Vote here. Highly commended – Sossusvlei up close My family and I travelled to Namibia for a 4x4 trip through the desert. We spent a whole day at Sossusvlei taking lots of photographs before meeting up with the rest of the group. Spending time at this unspoilt desert beauty was definitely the highlight of our trip. I captured this image using a tripod and polarized filter, which helped reduce the sun glare during that time of day. What I love most about this photograph is the detail in the dried tree and the red dunes in the background ,which reflect the extreme heat conditions. -By Bernard Pieterse, Secunda Canon 7D, Sigma 10-20mm, ISO 100, f/22, 1/30 sec, polarized filter
