Here's a single-image "Croporama"... captured shortly after sunset on Sunday afternoon... at one of my all-time favourite locations... Blaauwberg beach!
Only five more sleeps to go before I climb on a plane and fly off to Tuscany... for a week of landscape photography with my good friends Mike Scott and Jan Zwilling!
We will be based near the town of Pienza in the Val d'Orcia region... and although we already have a fairly good idea where to find the best locations in that area... if there's anyone out there reading this post that knows of some place nearby that's totally spectacular... I would sure appreciate to hear from you!!
Nikon D800, Nikkor 14-24 at 14mm, aperture of f/11, with a 1 second exposure.
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Well… I returned home late last night from a fantastic twelve day photographic expedition with one of South Africa’s leading landscape photographers… Hougaard Malan.
We spent the first weekend of our trip hosting a photo-workshop and shooting the indigenous forests of Magoebaskloof… after which we travelled to neighbouring Zimbabwe… for a week of shooting the iconic and (more than) amazing Victoria Falls.
This is one of my favourite compositions from the trip. It took me three days to find it… and a further two days waiting patiently till the conditions were good enough to capture it looking at its very best.
For this shot my tripod was perched a few centimetres from the edge of a very wet and slippery cliff… I had to be extremely careful here… one wrong move and my darling D800 and I would plunge more than sixty metres into the gorge!
I’ve got a mountain of email and work to catch up with during the next few days… so please excuse me if I don’t manage get around to viewing all your latest photos. I promise to do my best to check out and comment on everything that I’ve missed… before the end of the week.
This photo is a double-image Vertorama… the best (and only) way to capture a scene as large and magnificent as this one! :)
Nikon D800, Nikkor 14-24 at 14mm, aperture of f/11, with a 1/125th second exposure.
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Taking a short break from processing my Isle of Skye images… I popped down to the beach this afternoon… to capture another panorama of my favourite flat-topped mountain… Table Mountain.
To fully appreciate the level of detail in the flower-carpet... you simply must view this one large on black. :)
EDIT: I have reprocessed and re-uploaded this image... the sky was looking terrible when I viewed my original version on my screens at the office... I badly need to calibrate my monitor at home... I'm just not seeing what I'm supposed to be seeing! :)
Nikon D800, Nikon 50mm, aperture of f/16, with a 1/500th second exposure.
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Well… yesterday afternoon I ticked another “SNAP” location off my to-shoot list… this view of Hout Bay and the Sentinel at sunset… taken from the edge of a granite ledge… somewhere along Chapman’s Peak drive.
I really like the way that this one turned out… the subject was spectacular… the light was gorgeous… and the clouds were really performing for me… I think this might just be one of my own personal favorite shots… ever!
Nikon D800, Nikon 14-24mm at 16mm, aperture of f14, with a 1/40th second exposure.
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Although my intention was to shoot the beached fishing trawler in the best possible light on Saturday... by the time the sun was starting to set... I'd had enough! All the other people crowding behind the police marker-tape were getting in my way... and I was beginning to get bored of playing the... "sneak past the police-line as far as possible (to get the best shots) before being chased back by the cops" game!!
So when the sun started to set... I ambled off to a quieter part of the beach to see if I could find something interesting to shoot there. The road above the beach was chokka-block full of cars and people trying to get a glimpse of the stricken trawler (on First beach)... but I was very surprised to see that Clifton's Third beach was almost completely deserted! It was a pleasant day... not really ideal weather for swimming in the cold Atlantic... but still... I was definitely expecting to find more than the 20 or so other people that were sitting on the beach waiting for the sunset!? Oh well... whatever the reason... I certainly wasn't complaining... it felt like I had the whole beach to myself!!
If you look directly into the sun in this photo... you'll notice the faint outline of one of the tugboats that has been attempting to refloat the trawler. I've included a better shot of that tug in the comments section below.
Nikon D3100, Sigma 18-200mm at 18mm, aperture of f11, with a 1/100th second exposure.
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