Tag: black-and-white landscapes
The Malutis, Clarens
Here is one final image from our family get-together in Clarens in the Free State – a landscape.
Golden Gate, Free State
Here are a few images of the stretch of the Maluti mountains, outside Clarens in the Free State, known as ‘Golden Gate’ for its imposing cliffs and rock formations, which glow golden in the afternoon sunlight. I can’t say any one of these images completely knocks me out, but cumulatively, perhaps, they may give you some feeling for the rugged grandeur of the location. Of course all of us were up there – the family I mean – admiring the view and taking photos, so there will be a post of family pics to follow.
Midlands Meander
The Midlands Meander in KwaZulu Natal – well, meanders, criss-crossing the N3 that links Johannesburg to Durban, offering the traveller a network of scenic routes that winds through hills and valleys as it folds into its embrace potteries and chocolatiers, breweries and cheese-makers, leather workers and artists. It is the land of dairy – and, along a nondescript stretch of the old Johannesburg road, beside the railway line not far from Howick, the area where Mandela was captured, in August 1962, following a tip-off, it is believed, from the CIA – those friends of democracy everywhere. These images, I hope, […]
The Natal Midlands: Two Gates and a Landscape
Two sets of gates on Beverley Farm, in the Dargle Valley; two interpretations. The one gothic, the other more bucolic. The landscape shows the Karkloof, where we spent a lovely morning hiding in bird hides, on a farm, hoping for cranes.
The Cape, Mothers Day
I had had my misgivings, as readers of this blog will know, about the weather expected across South Africa on Mothers Day, last Sunday. But, contrary to expectation, the Cape was in glorious form – warm, bright, still, the sea on both sides of Cape Point calm as a pond, the waves turning crisply white as they reached the shore. I took my 85 year-old mom – she could pass easily for 70, and a pretty nimble 70 year-old at that – for a variant on one of our usual drives, this time over the high road above Kalk Bay, […]
Thorns, Nirox Winter Sculpture Exhibition
I was wandering around, as you know, last Saturday, with my camera around my neck, at the Nirox Winter Sculpture Exhibition in the Magaliesberg. The spirits were warm, though the day was chilly and wet, the people as varied and interesting as the sculptures, and then, at the edge of a field, near the entrance, I saw these thorn trees. I wasn’t quite sure how I was going to capture them, but I had in my head the idea that they were their own form of sculpture – there was something playful, perhaps salutary, or ironic, in the concept – […]
New Portfolios
You might want to mosey over some time and take a look at three new portfolios I’ve created on Adobe Portfolio – Namibia in black-and-white, with a portfolio each on Luderitz, Kolmanskop, and landscapes. The images can also be seen on Behance, where you can comment if you wish, and sign up as a follower to receive updates when I post new portfolios. You can click on the live links when you open this post to go directly to either of them – or both, if you wish! Oh, and thanks so much for reading and following; it makes all […]
