A Weekend in Onrus – Day 1 & 2
It was Megan’s birthday a couple of months ago and as a gift from her grandparents, they gave her access to their holiday home in Onrus for a weekend. After an initial…
Photography
Remembering The Berg – Golden Gate National Park
While looking back through my hard drive photographs this week I came across a mostly unpublished series of images from a trip I took about 4 years ago now, to the Drakensberg.…
Winter Morning at Rietvlei, Milnerton
After some very good rainfalls on Friday evening, the weather had cleared by Sunday and unlike the previous day, there was hardly any wind around. Not wanting to waste the rare pleasure…
West Coast Birding Yields Big Surprises – (Warning: May Contain Traces of Bateleur)
Megan and myself were lucky enough to be spending this Sunday with the Hardakers, whom I hadn’t had the pleasure of birding with properly since our last twitch of the Marabou Stork…
Birding Around Cape Town – Mowbray and Kirstenbosch
This was the second consecutive weekend that I would be in Cape Town, and luckily for me the Snowy Egret was still around, giving me something to do while Megan was at…
Snowy Egret in Cape Town – Worth a Second Visit
In the middle of last week I made a post about my first twitch of the Snowy Egret which was spotted along the Black River near Cape Town a week ago now,…
Dusk and Her Embrace – Shooting People
Don’t let the title mislead you, this has nothing to do with the Cradle of Filth song by the same name. This post is delayed by about 2 months, since the shoot…
Visiting The Taal Monument, Paarl
Last month Megan and myself were brain storming nearby locations to shoot and she mentioned the Taal Monument being a place she wanted to do a fashion shoot at, so we decided…
Shooting The Night Sky
After shooting on my Canon 50D for nearly 4 years, I decided it was time for an upgrade and ordered a 70D. Due to my interests in both landscape photography as well…
Lourensford Wine Estate – Autumn Walk
Lourensford Wine Estate in Somerset West is a location that I managed to shoot in my early years of photography, but due to fairly strict security I haven’t been in contact with…
Waterkloof Wines – Somerset West’s Hidden Gem
Recently I’ve been trying to find some new locations to shoot, and while I had pinned down a few within the 30 kilometer range, it’s not always easy to predict a good…
De Hoop Nature Reserve Visit – 2 May 2015
It’s been exactly two years since my last visit to De Hoop Nature Reserve, until this weekend that is. On Friday evening, Megan and myself discussed what we would be doing the…