A view up the main street lined with Victorian-era buildings of the small Karoo town of Victoria West. Parallel to the street on the edge of town is a large koppie (or rocky hill), illustrating that nature is still an omnipresent force in the region.
I snapped this photo through the windscreen of the car (I was passenger not driver!) and to compensate for the glare through the glass I have given this photo my favourite watercolour pencil pictorialisation treatment (using Photoscape). I think that this style gives the photo something of the feel of an old-time postcard.
Posted by Carol
letting nature back in 
December 21, 2018 at 8:18 am
A cleverly enhanced image.
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December 21, 2018 at 9:59 am
Thanks Margaret.
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December 21, 2018 at 5:14 am
I use to live in Port Townsend, a Victorian seaport in Washington State. Many of the old buildings were torn down or fell into disrepair, but that church looks exactly like some of the older buildings that can be found there. Also reminds me of the old west here a little bit.
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December 21, 2018 at 9:53 am
It is a shame when lovely old buildings cannot be maintained. These small towns, for the settlers at least, were pioneering, and this town was a stopover on the main route to the diamond fields until the railway line bypassed it. Probably has much in common with histories of small towns in the old west.
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December 21, 2018 at 4:40 am
Great composition. I like the postcard effect.
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December 21, 2018 at 9:14 am
Thank you Gunta. Some of these little towns have photogenic spots that we mostly just drive past!
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December 21, 2018 at 3:57 am
Think of the stories those old buildings could tell. Just as the koppie depicts nature as an omnipresent force, so does the solid presence of the church show the rooting of religion in those dorpies over the decades.
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December 21, 2018 at 9:13 am
So true what you say about the solid presence of the church in such dorpies, and interesting the juxtaposition of church and koppie (and all they represent) in the photo that I didn’t pick up on until you pointed it out.
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