This is Twyfelfontein ("doubtful spring" in Afrikaans) where there is the largest collection of ancient rock engravings in Africa. Nobody really knows how old they are but archeologists have evidence of human habitation in the area dating back at least 6000 years.

I was struck by how similar both the landscape is and the prehistoric art work is to that found in the "red centre" of Australia - it could have been Uluru, Kata Tjuta or King's Canyon in the Northern Territory.

In the end, maybe everything is joined up? Damn, I'm sounding like some New Age weirdo - sorry!

why is new age weird? NEWAGER · 2008-11-06: 12:20

Beautiful set peregol · 2008-11-06: 12:56

These are very cool - I would love to get to see them up close! Beautiful shots... gorgeous scenery! KerBear · 2008-11-06: 12:57

interesting and beautiful set ! pumacat · 2008-11-06: 13:02

nice set atila21 · 2008-11-06: 13:24

I usually draw while talking on the phone - and the result looks just like the last picture. talking more serious - amazing that someone left a sign "I was here" more than 6000 years ago. of course, it's not immortality, but still... burbulz · 2008-11-06: 13:29

Cool, graffiti from the past ! Can you imagine, 6,000 years ago someone - also an artist- sat and carved those images ( because they didn't have cameras yet ! heheh) exactly in the same spot where you ( another artist ) took the pics. Awesome front and background compositions and I like the contrasting complementary colours. #1.This time you got me fooled - I thought the foreground is a mountain like the one in the back - the lighter coloured stripe looks like a path over a mountain - and then I saw the carved animal and got the size right. #2. The moon on a sunny sky ! Magical. Interesting rocks. Great dark shadows. #3. Nice contrast between the smoothness of foreground and the rough terrain in the back. Also the vertical dark lines makes the comp more grounded. #4. I like the distribution of the space on those 3 plans. Nice shadowed image in front. #5. Interesting curved background and contrasting tree in front, but the tree should have been 1 inch to the right ;-) #6.What a good representation of animals. I like the giraffe and the goofy saber-toothed tiger. redro · 2008-11-06: 14:54

sorry, LastFrontier is right:...lion. redro · 2008-11-06: 14:57

Excellent work !!! love the first one !!! ;-) sistatitoune · 2008-11-06: 18:35

You're right, they are similar. Amazing colours! jet28 · 2008-11-07: 01:40

excellent post!!! :) ronin53 · 2008-11-07: 11:41