by Bryn De Kocks

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West Coast Birding Yields Big Surprises – (Warning: May Contain Traces of Bateleur)
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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 in 2013. The original plan was for us to head out on Saturday and target the Antarctic Terns in Jacobs Bay, and the…

Lockdown Birding
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Lockdown Birding

The day is April 12, Good Sunday. We’ve been locked up now for weeks, the streets baron and desolate with the occasional wailing of police sirens echoing through the suburbs. Who knows when we’ll see freedom again… I’m just kidding of course. While much of that is true to a degree, I’d like to think…

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Chasing Dusk: A Guide To Predicting and Photographing Sunsets
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Chasing Dusk: A Guide To Predicting and Photographing Sunsets

Nothing brings a landscape to life quite like phenomenal lighting. Sunset photography is popular, and sometimes just being in the right place at the right time will give you the biggest advantage in creating the photograph you’ve been envisioning. Thankfully being in the right place at the right time isn’t just a result of luck….

Chasing Snow in Ceres – 16 July 2017
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Chasing Snow in Ceres – 16 July 2017

The weather forecasts for the past week had been showing a strong cold front pushing through the Western Cape on Saturday evening into Sunday morning. Of particular interest with this front was the forecasted freezing levels, which suggested that we may be in for a good snow event across parts of the country. With the…

Chasing Mammatus and Other Local Adventures
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Chasing Mammatus and Other Local Adventures

I woke up on Sunday morning with Monique doing a “Women’s Walk” in Cape Town, and thus had the morning to myself and had planned to head through to Kogelbay and try some surf photography again. The swell forecast was good and the surface wind was forecast as a moderate South Easter, usually good for…