Low light under the bridge

 Click to show full size & back button to return to this page Happy New Year! Here’s another in the Salt River series.  These two gents I think were waiting for a ride – which was going to come down a street along which the sun was nearly horizontal and in their faces.  I liked…

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 ,…

In my last post I described a new approach to showing images from Himalayan and other treks.  Using that approach, here are a selected set of photographs from the very fine trek to Nar and Phu that my friend J*y and I did in spring 2009.     A brief word about Nar and Phu first. …

A huge mountain fire last night. This shot was taken from our house across the valley, and about 6km away. The width from left to right of the frame is maybe 500m, but the entire ridge was alight. This shot shows the front powering towards Kommetjie The ridge dips down to Kommetjie on the right,…

A magnificent day on Sunday the 3rd, as we watched the amazing Thames Pageant.  I don’t get excited often these days, but I was genuinely thrilled by the event – which displayed all the bonkers flair for procession and stoicism in the face of continuous rain of the British. Even hardened republicans were out, and…