Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
I found this lovely haiku by Ingrid Baluchi when I was recently browsing through back issues of The Mamba Journal - it's the Africa Haiku Network's online publication that comes out twice a year. Right away I knew I would like to put it to imagery and - fortunately - we had already booked a... Continue Reading →
In September and October South Africa began to ease the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions and our local Game Reserves began to open up. We were desperate to get out of town and into the bush so we took advantage of the special offers for residents and had day game drives to Kwandwe and stayed for two nights... Continue Reading →
I wanted to make some yoga art with a difference and asked beautiful Cape Town based yoga teacher Shelby Kleynhans (@yogi_shelby) to send me some yoga pictures and ideas to work with. She told me that she had a special affinity for the moon, the sea and anything blue. So I masked out the background... Continue Reading →
The long lockdown has sent me in some new artistic and photographic directions. Here's a great example. I wanted to make some yoga art with the beautiful Cape Town based yoga teacher Shelby Kleynhans (@yogi_shelby) and asked her to send me some yoga pictures to work with. These I will show you in my next... Continue Reading →
Sometimes my fantasy work just goes in all the right directions without me really knowing. In my last post I mentioned that Meagen had given me some great silhouettes to work with - she certainly did! I took her poses, masked out the background and it was then great fun to experiment overlaying the patterns... Continue Reading →
I think of the some of my photography as fantasy artwork. It's work that often dissolves a nude study into a spiritual natural scene. If you check out Symmetry Series: nude studies and new work at #NAF19 you'll see what I mean. It's no real surprise that I've wanted to do some more fantasy work during... Continue Reading →
Just before lockdown I shared a quiet couple of beers with Harry Owen and we talked about trying something new for the Virtual National Arts Festival. Seeing as we had lots of poetry and imagery between us why not collaborate? Here's a taste of what we have been working on. Aorta - Harry's unpublished poem... Continue Reading →
One of the most memorable and heart felt poems in Harry Owen's anthology For Rhino in a Shrinking World was written by 10 year old Hannah Armour. So it was an easy choice to be one of our In Tandem series of video clips for this year's Virtual National Arts Festival. It's read here by... Continue Reading →
Towering over our townships, like a wave ready to break, was this huge cumulus cloud. Ominously pink in the late glow after sunset the top of the cloud was rising fast and, blown by the winds, looked like a crest hovering over Grahamstown's townships below. This was taken a couple of nights ago, a week... Continue Reading →
The views of Hogsback's landscapes and sky-scapes from Wild Fox Hill are outstanding and so I've made this small video of 24 pictures. It's not as if you have far to go to get a really good shot: some of these pictures were taken right from the stoop of the eco-cabin. Others are taken from... Continue Reading →
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