My Top 10 Albums of All Time
It feels like forever since my last blog post, and it kind of has been… In part due to both a lack of enthusiasm for writing recently, as well as constant car…
Bryn De Kocks
Bryn is a passionate and opinionated antinatalist and naturalist with a love for nature, the ocean, photography, severe weather and music. He spends most of his time looking for new birds within the Western Cape, taking landscape photographs or behind his computer being a nerd.
A Weekend in McGregor
After several months of mechanics, my car finally gave a code on a diagnostic scanner and on Thursday morning I found myself with a car that had a cleaned throttle body –…
Chasing Snow in Ceres – 6 July 2014
Well well, finally I left the house and have an outdoors adventure to blog about! The weather this winter has been rough, with some bitterly cold spells, and it was clear already…
Always Look on the Dark Side of Life
It has been what feels like forever since my last blog post, most likely due to a combination of winter weather and a semi-functioning car. None the less, I am here now…
Photographing Dead Trees – Braving the Storm
On the evening of Saturday the 24th May I got a message from fellow photographer Etienne Beneke saying that he would be shooting a particular location in the morning and asked if…
Peasant EP Launch – Carnival Court
It seems that this is a great time for local music with most of the country’s best bands all putting out albums over the past couple of months. Just a few weeks…
Kogel Bay Camping Trip
A friend of mine recently contacted me asking if I would want to go camping for the long weekend, as we had both taken leave for the Friday. After weighing up the…
The Cape of Sunsets
Autumn is by far the best time of the year for sunsets, with cold fronts passing just south of the continent, it means that we get the associated clouds while often not…
Birding Challenge – Gotta Tick ‘Em All
I was contacted by Trevor Hardaker this past week, letting me know that him and Margaret, his wife – would be passing through my area and heading to Rooi Els to target…
Weekend of Photography
With a four day weekend on the cards, even the fact that I had to drop over a grand to get my car to get it sorted out wasn’t going to bring…
The Last Breaths of Summer
Without turning this blog into my diary, I was having a pretty rough week this week and felt the need to get out the house and to socialize in some way, shape…
The Awakening at Mercury Live
The Awakening is a band that I spent much of my early listening days assuming they were international. I originally got a copy of The Fourth Seal of Zeen from a girl…