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The pool
Click to see in full screen, back button to return to this page Today’s photograph: All along the False Bay coast of the Cape peninsula there are specially built sea pools, designed to keep kids safe from waves (and possibly sharks). This is one of the most elaborate, at Miller’s point, near Simonstown. I took…
The ruined villas of Kep-sur-Mer
A final photo-essay from our trip last autumn. This time it is the elegiac ruined villas of Kep – a place of many surprises, including the provenance of these buildings. One of the things I had heard about Kep was the abandoned villas that were scattered through the area. They weren’t particularly apparent…
On Long St
Little bit of street now. As I write, I’m sitting outside Lola’s cafe on the corner of Buiten and Long streets, finishing a rather nice salad nicoise. Or rather what fashionistas call salad nicoise. A real salad nicoise has more salad than tuna, and the tuna is cooked and shredded on top of mesclun ,…
The Dales in January
Some photographs by way of a change of subject from technology. These shots are of the gorgeous English Dales countryside on a trip to Aysgarth Falls, during one of the wettest and stormiest periods in recent memory, so everything was green and wet (except Norman). Very English. As is our wont we spent…
Cape Town Photos Spring 2011
[singlepic id=2 w=534 h=400 float=left]This Spring in Cape Town I got back into serious photography after a lapse of many years. My focus in the last 10 years or so has been in compact cameras – following the incredible recent technology curve of sensors and lenses. My main interest was in capturing mountain panoramas,…
Myanmar – Views of the Treasure
The Chickadee and I did a circuit of Myanmar in late September and October. I will be releasing batches of shots from this trip – here is the first, from the first place we stayed in, the Myanmar Inle Treasure The Myanmar trip was the first I have ever done with a full-on photography intent. …