Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
Luveshni Odayar is one of my Masters students. Her work is provocatively entitled Post-Apartheid Apartheid and she presented some of her preliminary findings at the Canon Collins Scholars Conference held in Cape Town recently. Here she is, front row left, pictured with some of the scholars attending the event. Her work asks whether the patterns of... Continue Reading →
The Drakensberg above Maclear was burning when we arrived for field work last week. It was a typical winter veld fire that had swept through the farm land and got into the forested kloofs. We could see it snaking over the horizon and it was till going strong next day when we went into the... Continue Reading →
It's been really stormy this past few days and, as I usually don't take my camera to work, a little more iPhoenography has taken place since my last post. Here are two pictures taken yesterday morning on my phone. I was walking back on to campus from town and the black skies were ominous.
iPhoneography is what happens when, for some silly reason, I haven't bothered to take a camera out with me. Then, of course, I immediately see a composition I want to photograph and have to rely on my phone to do the job. Here's five pictures from the past few months taken in this way. The... Continue Reading →
When I return home to Grahamstown from my regular trips to Sweden I come from 58 North to 32 South. That's almost exactly a quarter of the way around the world. To take photos at dawn and sunset here in South Africa you have to be quick as the sun and moon rise and fall... Continue Reading →
Mid winter is the right time for seeing the spectacular flowering of the Eastern Cape's aloes. These four pictures were taken on my daily walk from our home in Sunnyside down the hill, across Somerset Street and through the Botanic gardens to work. The whole countryside is glowing with them: particularly at dawn and towards... Continue Reading →
Last weekend's trip to Hogsback was a good time for photography: the light was excellent, landscape compositions were everywhere and, of course, there's my daughters and grandchildren. I've already posted my antique picture panorama but here's a selection of the other pictures I took. This composition was right outside Helen's house: the building poles were stacked above... Continue Reading →
Last weekend was spent at my daughter Helen's place high in the Hogback mountains. On Saturday evening we took the three dogs and Jeannie with the two little grandchildren up the hill for a sunset walk. It was quite a dark scene with soft light playing on the clouds above the mountains. The light and... Continue Reading →
It's taken a few days for me to realise that there's been a change to our skyline. I went to Scandinavia seven weeks ago and meanwhile the turbines for the new wind farm on Highlands Road have started going up. I didn't see them until I went for a walk on Mountain Drive a couple... Continue Reading →
My friends know that I love taking sunset photos - and low light photos in general. A week ago I was still in Northumberland. On my last night at Warton I went out just before 11pm and looked north west to the after glow of the sunset above the Scottish border. It was really tranquil, there... Continue Reading →
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