105 posts tagged with photography
Creative Cape Town Walking Tour
A morning walk through the streets of the CBD and the East City with the Creative Cape Town programme, organised by Cape Town Partnership and the CCID…. view full post
Vredehoek Quarry, Devil’s Peak
I organised a small Cape Town Flickr Meetup this morning, which took place at the Vredehoek Quarry on lower Devil’s Peak, Table Mountain. We met at 10am and spent about an hour and a half exploring in and around the quarry before heading for coffee and a brunch snack. Check out the group pool for updates as they’re … view full post
Skeleton Gorge/Smuts Track hike
Skeleton Gorge (the beginning of a route known as Smuts Track) ascends from the 310m contour path above the world-famous Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. It’s one of the most scenic routes up Table Mountain and provides spectacular views over False Bay, south towards Cape Point and … view full post
Turning Torso
HSB Turning Torso is a skyscraper in Malmö, Sweden, designed by the award-winning Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. Via Wikipedia:
It uses nine five-story cubes that twist as it rises; the top-most segment is twisted ninety degrees clockwise with respect to the ground floor. One reason for the building of Turning Torso was to reestablish a recognizable skyline for Malmö
Living My Life Faster
Nearly 5 years ago I linked to a fellow freelance interactive designer, Jonathan Keller, who was taking a daily self-portrait and archiving it online as A Daily Photo Project, which appears to now be titled “The Adaption to my Generation”.
His links page offers similar obsessive … view full post
Food for thought
The famous blue bins (being replaced with larger, more practical green ones) along Cape Town’s Sea Point promenade are carrying ads for Operation Hunger. If you can only imagine what the contents of that bin smelt like when I knelt down … view full post
Table Mountain panorama
Table Mountain panorama
Table Mountain National Park, previously known as the Cape Peninsula National Park, is a national park in Cape Town, South Africa, proclaimed on May 29, 1998 for the purpose of protecting the natural environment of the Table Mountain Chain, and in particular the rare fynbos vegetation. The park is managed by
Sunrise over Cape Town
Sunrise over Cape Town
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
- George Eastman… view full post
Groot Krokodil has died
Pieter Willem Botha, an icon of apartheid South Africa, unexpectedly passed away last night. He was instated the year before I was born and was the prime minister/state president I grew up with for 10 years of my childhood in a racially segregated country.I just read through some of the 400+ comments on the Inside IOL blog … view full post