Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
It's been a bit of a journey this past few weeks but today I've seen the end result and it's a great feeling. You get a full preview of Symmetry in Nature in blurb's online bookstore where you can purchase a hard copy or pdf version. The pdf file is for download and it's... Continue Reading →
It's a couple of months since I posted about the book project. There's been plenty to work on: finding the right online publisher, deciding on the layout, selecting and reworking images, tracking down picture details, drawing the maps and then composing the book. Here is a preview of the covers: you are looking at the... Continue Reading →
The past eight months of Kate’s cancer treatment have seen our lives turned upside-down. Seemingly by chance I started a photo project - Symmetry - and it’s proved to be a therapeutic space where I can turn away from day-to-day concerns and focus my creativity on beauty and harmony. As I have been working I’ve... Continue Reading →
Last week we spent a productive few days doing survey work in and around the Wilgerbos River on Ganora Farm. Kate's Masters student, Natalie, and postdoctoral researcher, Simon, were busy with channel surveys, flow measurements and laying sediment trips. I helped Kate with her erosion study on the badlands. Some of these pictures have already... Continue Reading →
It's been a while since I have had the time and space for posting anything here. We're just back from Ganora Farm in the Karoo: it was Kate's first field trip since her colon cancer operation and chemotherapy started six months ago. Everyone who visits the Karoo has a wind pump picture but I thought... Continue Reading →
Here are some different views of Rhodes University, Grahamstown. The original pictures were taken using my cheap phone camera and then reworked using WordFoto: Rhodes University and Grahamstown are the keywords. These will have to change, of course, and I will need to do more pictures if we ever rename the University and city ….. The... Continue Reading →
Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' is one of the world's most easily remembered works of expressionist art. Imagine my surprise to see echoes of the painting in the scum below the bridge in Grahamstown's Botanic Gardens. Echo one: I was on a bridge. Echo two: there was a distorted shape in the watery scum. Echo three:... Continue Reading →
Fieldwork with Kate in the Karoo usually involves lots of walking in hot dusty and scratchy places. Last week's trip to Ganora was no exception. On the way to collect data from various instruments and gadgets you find yourself dodging spiders webs and finding the most exquisitely coloured insects. They are the inhabitants of the sand... Continue Reading →
We're just back from three crystal clear days and nights in the Karoo. Excellent conditions for taking photos at night. The first picture is a long lens shot of Compassberg taken from Ganora Farm which must be about 10 kilometres from the mountain as the crow flies. It was just after sunset with a thin... Continue Reading →
It's been really hot this summer. Today it was 37 degrees. Our swimming pool has been getting lower with all the evaporation and swimming so after lunch I decided to fill it with some of the rain water from our new tanks …. there was also the thought that if I did use up our... Continue Reading →
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