a misty morning...

this was taken up in the Drakensburg early one (cold) morning...
there are so many awesome places in our country to get away to, to meditate and unwind.

sadly...

Here's 2 photos to make you all nice and sad on a Sunday evening.
(don't worry, they're all wonderfully happy people)!

First up is titled: L O V E L E S S
It's a self portrait of Renee and I creating a photograph for a specific project...

Next is titled: DON'T LEAVE ME HERE       
I was taking photos of an old train while my daughter explored the old locomotive. At one point i turned around and saw this picture...

full moon rising

I couldn't resist pulling over on the way home the other night to take this.
I wish the moon had been a little to the left so that i could have included the Moses Mabhida Stadium. The city of Durban at night is a wonderful sight anyway.

Another backyard bug

I was thinking about my macro photographs and how 99% of them are taken in my back yard!
This is an ant that i found to be rather interesting, it has such a warrior-like appearance.
Click this link to see some of the other bugs found in our back yard :-)    ( Macro photos )

Paradise Valley

We took a walk through Paradise Valley last weekend. Lovely place! And contrasting too - there's a huge concrete bridge structure running through this tropical garden.

This photo was taken at the waterfall, about a 1km easy walk. Tranquil. We tried to find the geocache that's hidden here, but the rock/cliff interfered with the GPS...

Take the time to visit the reserve. There are picnic spots too.

Charge!

This photo was taken at Thembe. Renee and I were sitting quietly watching this guy scratching himself against the tree, when suddenly he didn't like us watching anymore...
I took 2 quick shots, started the car and drove off rather quickly.
Considering we'd been charged by an angry black rhino a few hours before, it was time to go back to camp and have a glass or two of wine!

DPChallenge winner

I have just won an online contest with my image "sunrise".
I achieved this by twisting the lens while the shutter was open.
the link to the contest is: http://www.dpchallenge.com/challenge_results.php?CHALLENGE_ID=1597

John Blakemore...

This image was completely inspired by John Blakemore. The project was to use the zone system (as decribed by him in his book "a black and white photography workshop"),  to produce a low-key image that also had highlights, with no pure black areas (only dark grey).

A few B&W pics

After the rain...

Here's a photo i took this morning after last night's rain. I'm not sure about this one. It has diagonal line attributes and nice intense colours. Thoughts?

One of my favourite shoots