These photos were taken by Richard Hallas while visiting relatives in Cape Town in September 1999. They were taken with an Olympus C-2000 Zoom, and a handful of them were used to accompany the review of this camera in RISC User 12:8. A great many photos were taken; the pictures presented here are a selection of the best ones, and appear in chronological order.
Most of the pictures were taken at 1024×768 (SQ) resolution. A few (labelled HQ below) were taken at the camera's top resolution of 1600×1200 pixels.
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| Cockpit of a KLM plane (flight from Amsterdam to Cape Town) | Looking towards Cape Town from the steps of the Rhodes Memorial | Looking across to Cape Town from the top of the Rhodes Memorial |
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| The "Energy" statue (horse and rider) at Rhodes Memorial | Ancient camphor trees at Vergelegen vineyard | The slave bell at Vergelegen vineyard |
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| Top entrance to Vergelegen winery | Vats at Vergelegen | Vergelegen homestead |
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| The Huguenot Monument at Franschhoek | Inside the Victoria Wharf shopping centre, Cape Town | View from l'Avenir vineyard |
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| Muratie vineyard, 1699 to 1999 | View over Muratie vineyard towards Table Mountain | Slave bell at Delheim vineyard |
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| Morgenhof vineyard | Cable car base station, Table Mountain | Rotair cable car descending from Table Mountain |
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| HQ View over Camps Bay from the top of Table Mountain | Looking down into Maiden's Cove | The gift shop at the top of Table Mountain |
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| A rock dassie (its closest genetic relative is the elephant!) | A rock dassie living up to its name | HQ Cape Town harbour and Table Bay |
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| HQ Looking towards Robben Island over the so-called "Lion" | Panorama (four photographs wide) over Cape Town | Cable car in transit |
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| The Lion's Head and Robben Island, with boat and cable car | Camps Bay and Whale Rock | A so-called coon band |
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| Entrance to Victoria Wharf | Tropical fish in Cape Town's aquarium | Penguins at the aquarium |
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| Shark at the aquarium | Sharks at the aquarium | Sentinel and Duiker Island at Hout Bay |
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| Sign at Cape Point | HQ Cape Point | Seat and steps at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens |
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| Silver tree at Kirstenbosch | Helmeted guinea fowl at Kirstenbosch | Pin-cushion protea, Kirstenbosch |
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| Path at Kirstenbosch | Captain Bird's Bath, Kirstenbosch Dell | Kirstenbosch Dell |
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| Otter pool, Kirstenbosch Dell (the otter is a statue) | Steps at Kirstenbosch | Carpet of flowers, Kirstenbosch |
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| Arum lillies at Kirstenbosch | Castle Rock viewed from Kirstenbosch | Pig's Ears |
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| Close-up of strelitzia ("Mandela's Gold") | Statue at Kirstenbosch | Protea at Betty's Bay |
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| Sunset at Betty's Bay | Thatched house at Hermanus | Penguins at Stony Point, near Betty's Bay |
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| KLM flight to Amsterdam | View of Table Mountain (with tablecloth of clouds) and Lion from the air | Mouille Point as seen from the aeroplane |