I was going to split the photos from yesterday’s photowalk into 3 posts, but I’m too impatient so this is a HUGE post!!   These are my favourite shots from yesterday, I liked the others I posted… but I love these!

I’m posting them in the order in which they were taking.

This church is an Anglican church in Braamfontein, on the same block as Wits University (where the walk started).

We walked over the Nelson Mandela bridge into the Johannesburg CBD to get to Newtown.  These are the cables on the bridge.

This is taken from the bridge.

A Malawian guy we met on the bridge…

Once we got to Newtown, we steered clear of the crowds that had gathered to celebrate Mandela’s birthday (hence all the flags).

This guy was a street vendor in Newtown selling posters

We’d spent so much time on the bridge, that by this time we had to make our way back, and we walked along a busy street with shebeens on every block, to get back to the main road to get back to Braamfontein.

This yellow building was actually a butchery.

Then we came across this group of kids that were dancing and singing on a street corner.  It was definitely the highlight of my day…it was also then, that I realised just how fast my new camera is! Love it!!  I took so many photos of these kids, here are just a few…

I wish we could have stayed there for longer, but it was getting late.  We passed a taxi rank before we crossed the Queen Elizabeth bridge back into Braamfontein, and I just HAD to stop and ask this man whether I could take a photo of him.  These makeshift barbers are all over the city, and I’ve been dying to take a photo of one… I know… I’m strange

And what’s a trip to the city without spotting a little crime… these guys were sitting under the bridge stripping copper wire that they’d probably stolen… blissfully unaware that I wasn’t taking photos of the city scapes like the other photographers

And the last photo… of the trains under the Mandela bridge.

It was a fabulous experience, and I actually want to go back to the city to “do” Newtown properly. These are definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, my weekly winners for Lotus’ weekly challenge.

My biggest problem now, is singling out my one image that I can submit to the photowalk site for prizes. LOL! Impossible task!