Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
This post's about the Dryad series. They are the seven images that make up almost a quarter of my exhibition - Symmetry - which is at the Carinus Arts Centre for the National Arts Festival from 29 June to 9 July 2017. I wanted to explore what happened when I placed a person into my images... Continue Reading →
My solo exhibition - Symmetry - is at the Carinus Arts Centre for the National Arts Festival from 29 June to 9 July 2017. I've decided to write a series of posts about the images that are in it so that you can see what it is about. When you walk into the exhibition you'll immediately... Continue Reading →
We've been having lovely autumn weather with clear air, blue skies and low angle light that brings out all the changing colours. I've tried to capture this in these images and combined them into one pattern of autumn harmony. Going clockwise from the top right the inspiration was a bare tree in front of the... Continue Reading →
Last week we spent a day at Addo Elephant National Park and, just as we were leaving at sunset, we saw a lone bull elephant striding up over the horizon. The misty Suurberg ridges rising up beyond the Sundays River valley made a lovely dramatic backdrop to his silhouette. I got to wondering what would... Continue Reading →
There will probably be autumn mist tomorrow morning, our host at Tsitsa Falls backpackers (Adrian Badenhorst) told us around the camp fire, you often get them when a hot day follows. He was right. The whole Tsitsa valley was dark with mist at sunrise but it soon began to clear as the sun burned through.... Continue Reading →
Iceland has such a big dramatic landscape that you struggle to fit it into a regular sized photograph. I tried a number of panoramic shots when we were there in the summer of 2013 and I've recently come across them again whilst reorganising my photo files - so I've done some touching up on them. My camera... Continue Reading →
Sitting on the shelf in my studio are four stamp albums. Three of them belonged to my Dad and the other belongs to Helen. He gave her these albums and I have them all for safekeeping. The post’s called loose leaves because in Dad’s ‘swops and to be included’ album are a few Kenyan stamps... Continue Reading →
Way back in 1990 I went on sabbatical leave to St Mary's College, Durham University, and produced an Atlas of Kenya. I specifically wanted to map where ethnic groups lived at independence (1963) and where they lived in 1979 at the end of President Kenyatta's government. I used the 1962 and 1979 population censuses to... Continue Reading →
I've been working on some cover concepts for Harry Owen's upcoming collection 'The Cull: new and resurrected poems'. It's taken a while to get to the finished product but now both Harry and Amitabh Mitra, who's publishing it through the Poets Printery, are very enthusiastic about this one. The basis for the cover is a picture... Continue Reading →
We spent a week in Tromsø at the end of October and were blessed with lots of cold clear weather. The days were short, the sun was always very low and so we saw lots of colours that you never get here in South Africa. This lone birch was standing by a part frozen... Continue Reading →
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