Archive for the Showcase Category
Greetings, Earthlings!
Posted 19 July 2011 by Callie de WetTagged As: birds, wildlife | Categories: Showcase | 3 Comments
These African Spoonbills were really a joy – I got more in-flight shots of them than ever before ~ Duck Pond, Secunda ~ I spend many late afternoons here waiting for the spoonies to come in to land.~ D3S 2370W 35,5 m away! Ibises and spoonbills belong to the family Threskiornithidae and there are 33 [...]
“100 Men … America’s Best”
Posted by FrancoisTagged As: composition, low-light, ocean, scapes, seascape, sunrise/sunset, water | Categories: Showcase | 11 Comments
You cannot help to think of the song: ‘The Ballad of the Green Berets’ when you come to this cemetery. If you want to know more about this photo, please go to my blog: http://www.fcsphotography.com
With delicate wings . . .
Posted 18 July 2011 by Callie de WetTagged As: birds, wildlife | Categories: Showcase | 8 Comments
White-faced Duck, Dendrocygna viduata~ D3S 12375 W~ Nikkor 400 F/2.8 ED-IF-AFS II + 1.4 TC – Saturday morning ~ Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary, Pretoria, Gauteng – the light was stunning!
in Flight
Posted 15 July 2011 by Callie de WetTagged As: birds | Categories: Showcase | 10 Comments
Guest post by Callie De Wet Ed’s Note: Please tell us a little something about this image by means of a comment, Callie – we’ll have the self-posting issue sorted soon.
Stoomtrein
Posted 14 July 2011 by WillemvdPostTagged As: tracks | Categories: Showcase | 17 Comments
Dawn at Rovos Rail Capital Park Pretoria
Pelican too late
Posted 11 July 2011 by WillemvdPostTagged As: wildlife | Categories: Showcase | 9 Comments
This image was taken on the Berg River at Velddrift where Seagulls and Pelicans sometimes compete for off-cuts discarded by the Bokkom-factories. It was captured with a Nikon D700 and 200-400mm lens.
Old Joburg Gen 3
Posted 9 July 2011 by Denis SmitTagged As: buildings & structures, dark | Categories: Showcase | 6 Comments
Last of my posts on the Old Joburg Gen. There is a tunnel under the main building. Can drive a ambulance through it. Very dark, damp and smells. This was a view from one of the windows Lots of striking forms and texture. This was a stairwell that was alongside one of the buildings Where [...]
Old Hospital: Johannesburg Photo Walk – 2
Posted 7 July 2011 by Denis SmitTagged As: buildings & structures, dark, low-light | Categories: Showcase | 7 Comments
Part 2 of Joburg Gen. The experience was a combination of amazement at the old buildings and a deep sadness at the decay. The walls are covered with old, old pipes and tubes. What these supplied are a point of mystery. Some parts of the site were really, really old and seem like they were [...]
Old Hospital: Johannesburg Photo Walk -1
Posted 6 July 2011 by Denis SmitTagged As: buildings & structures, candid & street, news/story/message | Categories: Showcase | 4 Comments
I recently attended a photowalk with the Joburg Photowalkers touring the Old Joburg General Hospital in Hillbrow Johannesburg. This is my first serious attempt at Photo Journalism which is a powerful genre where the “story” is more important than the “purist photo”. In fact the context sets it up. Pikkie asked me to post a [...]
Giving Chase
Posted 5 July 2011 by WillemvdPostTagged As: wildlife | Categories: Showcase | 7 Comments
Cheeta giving chase
