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The moon was almost full on a perfect Cape winters evening.  Good time to experiment with the zoom on my Canon Powershot SX20 IS. I am very hesitant to use the digital zoom on any camera but as you can see from the photo at the bottom, even at 4x Digital, it is not that bad.

Focal Length: 53.8mm (10.7x Optical and no Digital)

Focal Length: 100mm (20x Optical and no Digital)

Focal Length: 100mm (20x Optical and 1.54x Digital)

Focal Length: 100mm (20x Optical and 4x Digital)

One can see it is a bit grainy at 4x Digital but anything between 1.5x and 2x Digital is great.

Click on the image to see a larger one.  Also you can see more in my Picasa Album.

It is not always the rising sun that makes for beautiful photos.  While the sun was setting on the other side I caught the moon rising over the Boland mountains.  Here is some photos I got.

Click on the image to see a larger one.  Also you can see more in my Picasa Album.

It is freezing cold here in the Cape at the moment and looking at the mountain tops, you can see why.  Today was the first clear day after the rain of the past couple of days.  When I arrived home, I took some photos from my balcony.

You can see all the photos in my Picasa album.

This is why ..

First snow of the year .. lots more to come.

More photes in my Picasa Snow Album

This was taken from my balcony .. where else can one have a view like this.

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This morning we had one of those sunrises which one only gets when there is some clouds around and the rising sun make the clouds look like they on fire.

I have a Canon PowerShot SX20 IS camera and this morning I played around with its sunrise settings.  This first photo was taken with the AUTO setting on the dial.

I then change the dial to SCN and the Sunset setting under that.  This is the result taking the same photo as above.

As you can see from the second photo, it is much redder.  To be honest, the first photo is much more natural and I like that one more.  What do you think?

You can see more of this in my Picasa Sunset and Sunrise Album.

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This is how the sun raised its head through the clouds this morning here in Cape Town.

More photos can be found in my public Picasa gallery.

The below photos were taken a couple minutes from one another from exactly the same spot. 

This one looking to the right and have the mist rolling over the hills.

This one to the left with the rising son over the Boland mountains.

More photos here in my Picasa Album.

It was raining in Cape Town this morning when I woke up and was also greeted by this sunrise. 

The full set can be viewed in my Picase album.

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Took this when I got home this evening, the setting sun through the trees on Tygerberg hill.

Click on image for larger view.  All were taken with my Canon PowerShot SX20 IS with the sunset setting.

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Yesterday afternoon late, these clouds were hanging over the Boland.

Click on the image for a larger one.  These photos were taken with my Canon PowerShot SX20 IS in landscape setting.

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