I had to get up very early this morning, taking my daughter to Stellenbosch to go write her acceptance tests today for studying at University next year. On my way home, the sun was rising through the trees right in front of me. I stopped and took some photos.
You can find some more in my gallery here.
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Sometime nature can just be wonderful .. with the setting sun we got an amazing rainbow. This rainbow stretched from one side to the other but as a learning photographer with no wide-angle lens yet, I totally forgot to take a series of photos to stitch together for a panoramic. Hey this is the way one learns. Here are some of the photos.
I got this aeroplane flying in front, through 
, behind the rainbow. It was a quick “mik” and shoot so it is a bit blurry but I got the plane.
Start of the rainbow
middle
and end of the rainbow.
Full set can be found here in my gallery.
Yesterday, when there was a break in the whether, I took a drive to an area just outside Durbanville to go take some photos. It was an overcast day which is perfect for photography. Here are some of my photos. I did no post processing on the photos. People familiar with the area will immediately recognise the area.
Love the contrast between the old and new.
With autumn, the colours in the vineyards are just amazing.
And found some wildlife just next to the road.
More photos from this shoot can be found here: Durbanville – 20090517
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A day or so ago this dove was sitting on the railing of my balcony.
It was there before but everytime I opened the door to take a photo it flew away. This time when I opened the door it just stayed there. I first thought there was something wrong with the dove but when I got real close to it, it flew off.
A day or so later, the same dove was visiting again and again it did not flew away when I opened the door. I walked around on the balcony and it just watched me. Think this dove is taking a liking in me.
More photos from my new best friend – yes I know it is a bird.
More here – My Photo Gallery – Sunset
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On Tygerberg Hill are some radio masks and this morning one of the masks was sticking out above the clouds.
It is an overcast day here in Cape Town and the air is starting to get nippy. Winter is on its way but there is something not right with the weather here in the Cape. What is this with the thunder this morning and it is not the first time this month. We are not suppose to get thunder and lightning here in the Cape.
More photos here: My Photo Gallery – Clouds
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I found these Egyptian Geese (at least I think they are) on the chimney of a neighbours house this morning.
More photos can be found here: My Photo Gallery
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Today I played around with the zoom on my Canon SX10. Here are some of the results:
100mm F5.7 1/500s ISO200 Auto Metering: Pattern WB: Auto
This was taken at the maximum optical resolution of 20x (560mm equivalent) with no digital zoom. To give you an idea, this guinea fowl were about 200 meter from where I took the photo. Not bad at all.
This is the same quinea fowl as above and the photo was taken from exactly the same spot. Only difference was that I added 2.28x digital zoom to it. That is about 1276mm equivalent.
100mm F5.7 1/500s ISO200 Auto Metering: Pattern WB: Auto
To be honest, I was very surprised at the quality of the digital. One read and hear so much about how useless digital zoom is, but from the above it sure has its uses when one needs to get in closer to your subject.
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Schweppes “Burst” Commercial
What an amazing ad. Just show what one can do with a slowmotion camera. This was taken at 1000FPS (frames per second) .. now that is fast. To compare — your home movie is normally around 30FPS and those you see in the cinema at around 24FPS.
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