Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
I thought I would try something a little different with this Chronophotography sequence that I took last week. A Long Crested Eagle had been perching beyond the trees in the old orchard on our plot in Hogsback and eventually settled on a branch just behind the trunk of a dead eucalyptus tree. In spite of... Continue Reading →
One of the most frustrating things about curating right through the Arts Festival is that I get a lot of inspiration but there's no time to act on it until quite a bit later. This year was no exception. Many people have commented that a lot of my pictures resemble fractals - and I agree... Continue Reading →
We made a return trip to the Karoo last week. It was dramatic. As we drove in on the Nieu Bethesda road the whole sky was dark and the weather very unsettled but as we crested the rise at the end of Rubidge Kloof the Kompassberg appeared, rising some 1200 metres above the plains. That... Continue Reading →
Uddevalla is where I live when I stay in Sweden, a former industrial town set in lovely natural surroundings. That is the mix I am trying to show in these two pictures. The mid-October sunset is taken from above Skalbanksmuseet - the Shell Bed Museum - on the eastern side of town looking west over... Continue Reading →
I suspect this is going to be be the first of a number of posts on this theme .... these four pictures really are My Sweden: The Falun red paint at sunset on the barn at Äsperöd; The 3 am dawn light over the fjord; The Swedish flags snapping in the cold autumn winds; And,... Continue Reading →
Before going to bed last night I took a look out from the stoep . It was really clear with a bright moon rising behind the coral tree whose blossoms were picked out vividly by the house lights. I thought it would be worth trying to capture the two things and here are the results.... Continue Reading →
It is late summer in Sweden, or perhaps early autumn is a better description, the trees are just beginning to change colour and it is the time when there should be plenty of mushrooms. But there aren't many of them this year. My friends tell me that they came out early with the summer being... Continue Reading →
I guess most of us have a few of these pictures. The ones where you are taking a picture of a rock on Kompassberg mountain and you see an eye in it, or the face of a baboon on a rock in the Botanic Gardens, Göteborg. Old trees are particularly good, I have a creature... Continue Reading →
It was a quiet night for us after the Klipspringer Trail, the campsite was pretty busy but we didn't really care and got to sleep nice and early. Then it was back along the Gariep to Upington and the drive north to the Kgalagadi Park and a night at Twee Rivieren camp. We spent it... Continue Reading →
Midwinter is about the best time to hike the Klipsringer Trail, actually you can't hike it in the summer months due to the extreme heat and lack of water on the route . We broke up the long drive (900 kms) by overnighting at the Mountain Zebra Park and you can see just how cold... Continue Reading →
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