Category: Africa

Mist 1

Some of the mist pictures I took in and around Napier (south Africa) since we moved there in March last year. Black & White processing done in Perfectly Exposure, Perfectly Clear and Luminar Neptune.

There is hope for Cape Town

The water level in Theewaterskloof Dam (the main source for drink water for Cape Town) is still extreme low and Capetonians will have to live with the severe water restrictions for the time being. But slowly the sam in filling up. Snow in the mountains around (like the one in the background) will contribute to that.

Unusual?

Many people from abroad, and I mean people from mainly the Northern Hemisphere don’t expect that it can snow in South Africa. Well there is even a Ski resort somewhere in the Eastern Cape. More close to where I live is the Franschhoek Pass and that is where I made this picture last Sunday. Really; snow is not that unusual in South Africa.

Detail of Overberg Landscape

(Golden Hour)

A conventional photograph is a two-dimensional image of a three-dimensional reality. In my (landscape) photography I always try to add my own ‘third dimension’. The average person still looks at it as a two-dimensional image but every now and then there is somebody who looks beyond it. Last week a woman from my village replied to one of my photographs: “…I don’t know enough about photography to comment, actually…..but you seem to get this amazing, molten, liquidy metallic thing going in your pics…and I love it!…”

It just made my day!