'A good traveller has no fixed plans.' Tao Te Chiang
I will be in Brussels when this post appears, traveling for a few days on business. To keep the customers satisfied, I have scheduled this post in my absence: a photograph of a solitary photographer, reflected through the reeds, in the mirror-like waters of the vlei at Marievale - a mirror of myself, in a [...]
The early wagtail catches the worm. Marievale Bird Sanctuary.
Marievale Bird Sanctuary
Spain has saturated my posts and photographs for some time now; with this series done, my eye hankers after water, marsh, sky and birdlife. So the next few posts mark a return to Marievale Bird Sanctuary, and a trawl through the images from my last visit, in November. There are flamingoes, widow birds, ducks of [...]
I like the harmony and balance, the silent concentration, in these photographs of pied avocets with their swooping bills wading in the waters at the Marievale Bird Sanctuary. Time for a break, I thought, in the Spanish series...
From photographs of birds, taken during my recent field trip to the Marievale Bird Sanctuary, this blog will see a change of scene, to our travels in Spain - but only when we are back, Rob and I, towards the end of September, from Andalucia and Madrid. Meanwhile here is one image - a blacksmith [...]
This Pied Kingfisher was hard at work when I came across him, rising from a bed of reeds, hovering, swivelling his head this way and that, wings beating madly as he looked for his dinner. I took a million photographs, the first lot using a fast shutter speed to freeze the motion, and then a [...]
These little chicks are coot, you might say. I saw them, on the vlei at Marievale, far out on the water, at the furthest reach of my 500mm telephoto, and even then I had to crop the images severely. The teeniest chicks, interestingly, were the furthest out - mere orange-beaked fluff, Â beside the black hulls [...]
Here's a good one. A prisoner in a Turkish prison goes to the prison library, and asks for a particular book. The prison librarian replies, 'We don't have that book. But we do have the author.' Signs of the times, you might say - the modern dystopia. History has not ended - in fact, it's [...]
From the corner of the hide, you looked out across the water, directly into the light, where the coots were squabbling and giving chase, and I knew at once that this was an image made for black-and-white. I took several photographs, aware of how tricky the light was, and struggling with the heavy lens to [...]
