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
