Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
Cloudscapes have always been one of my photo passions and lately I've been extending my skills using the Olympus Live Composite mode. These dawn and dusk shots of the Hogsback skyline from Wild Fox Hill are the longest I've taken. They're 15 minutes of one second exposures, so each picture is a composite combining 900... Continue Reading →
I was very pleased with the reception to the Juxtaposed Dalarna Landscapes posted previously and that's inspired me to try something similar with the work in the Hogsback gallery I have already published. Hogsback Juxtaposed: SuperMoon Rising In the Dalarna landscapes there's lots of potential to juxtapose images on top of the reflections of the... Continue Reading →
I'm enjoying the flexibility of a virtual exhibition space at #naf2022. It's meant that I can easily add this new image of Amakhala - taken a couple of weeks ago- to the Room of Dreams. Aloes, Winter Stars and Dawn Light, Amakhala It fits very nicely in the centre of the wall of landscapes with... Continue Reading →
My landscape and nature photography are at this year's National Arts Festival in an immersive 3D virtual exhibition hosted by oarbt.com. It has four walls of dreams and each one has a different theme: the Lockdown Sunbirds; the King Proteas; the Cloud Abstracts and the Lockdown Landscapes. The images were selected from the fine art... 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 →
We've been staying in Helen's house at Wild Fox Hill, Hogsback, this past week. There's been her three dogs and four cats to look after whilst she's in Sweden visiting Jeannie. We've also taken care of her Eco-Cabin and the Air BnB guests. I've brought along my Olympus OMD I mark 2 along with the... Continue Reading →
Two or three times a year we make the journey west from Grahamstown and into the Karoo - often staying somewhere around Compassberg which at 2504 metres is the highest peak in the Sneeuberg and Karoo. Kate has been working in the area for many years and I've gone along too. Sometimes that's involved some... Continue Reading →
Our second experience of the Karoo Wine Club’s excellent tasting weekend in Graaff-Reinet didn’t disappoint. We went last Friday to find some wines cheap enough for the opening of my fringe exhibition 'Metamorphosis' at #NAF18. For the price of a R250 ticket you get to sample wine from some 30 different estates: there’s craft beer,... Continue Reading →
The N2's not an easy road and I don't think many festinos' would think it's a delight: but most people will come to #NAF18 along it. Whether from Port Elizabeth or King William's Town it snakes its way across a whole sequence of deep valleys. I just love the names of the rivers. On the... Continue Reading →
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