Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
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 →
In a couple of month's time Grahamstown's Festival Gallery hosts its annual end-of.year exhibition. This year the theme is Summer in Miniatures - artworks have to be no bigger than 30 cms. I've decided to try out a submission with the idea of 'Summer Nights' and use a selection of four night pictures taken this... Continue Reading →
Images taken at low light have always been one of my passions but lately I have been able to take much better images at night. A new camera and lens have helped! So I've been taking milky way pictures and star trails - quite a few have been posted in Instagram using my @roddythefox account.... Continue Reading →
One of the unusual things about taking the portals pictures is that I am often looking for an image to complete. So I look for quirky shapes that can be combined into something intriguing, different and provocative. Fortunately for me there are plenty of trees in and around Grahamstown with strange forms which provide me with great material... Continue Reading →
I've been out from home to take night pictures around Grahamstown three times recently when the cloud (preferably no clouds) and wind (preferably no wind or light winds) forecasts were favourable. The moon isn't such a problem as you can use the moonlight to paint the foreground of your picture. Night photos have been a dominant... Continue Reading →
Without doubt the Karoo is cold in the winter months. We are just back from field work based at Ganora Guest Farm, New Bethesda and it was gray and cloudy and cold. I managed to capture the grainy chill in these pictures: particularly in the skies towering over the gravel roads twisting through the big... Continue Reading →
Makana's Kop dominates the skyline over the township when you are down in the bowl where Grahamstown lies. There's a prominent straggle of fir trees on its crown and the oldest townships of Fingo and Tantyi run down towards you as you look up to it from the city centre. This sunset picture's taken from above city... Continue Reading →
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.
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