I wasn’t that excited to go to this museum, but I actually loved it. It was a freezing cold, rainy day in Amsterdam and the museum had just the right amount of variety to keep me interested. Housed in a former naval storehouse, the museum covers many different aspects of maritime history, from paintings to model ships, […]
Travel
Brunch at the Peregrine Café
A while back on the way to Hermanus, we stopped at the Peregrine Farm Stall in Elgin (Western Cape) and grabbed a brunch at the café. Every-time I go in there I do a tour of all the local produce, weird preserves and fresh bakes at that farm stall. It’s really difficult to leave without quince […]
One Day in Nature’s Valley
Monkeys, Knysna loeries, deer, snakes and dolphins are a few of the things that you might be lucky enough to see on a stop-over in Nature’s Valley. Off-season times are the quietest, and can still have good weather. We visited the reserve area towards the end of April and had the campsite, and most of […]
Saint-Émilion, France
On my last post, I failed to make an introduction to this series of travel photos. So, briefly: the man and I went on a camping road trip in Europe for the month of June. We landed in Paris and then headed to Basque Country in the south west and towards Spain, then we continued […]
Macro at Kirstenbosch
A friend and I decided to practise our macro photography at Kirstenbosch Gardens in Newlands one morning. I used a Vivitar macro zoom less made for a film camera (one of my grand-father’s lenses) on my digital SLR and she used her new digital macro lens. I had to play around with exposure and manual focus which […]
Muizenberg & the 20mm Vivitar
The 20mm Vivitar was one of the lenses that I inherited from my grandfather and has fungus growing inside it. Part of the lens can’t be opened up, but the part that can be has been cleaned. Anyway, it’s all manual focus and exposure and the fungus remaining still gives the photos an experimental feeling with distortion at […]