Author: DMcA

I’m not excited

ByDMcA

I had a great, almost charmed life as an IBM executive.  One of the things I don’t miss about the company though was the requirement at around this time of year to convey my “excitement at the challenges ahead” to the troops at the new year kick-off meeting.  For the English, a public display of…

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Old salts in Salt River

ByDMcA

 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…

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Alex goes to Salt River

ByDMcA

This is the first of a series of shots taken in the footsteps of the great Alex Webb, a photographer who I greatly admire.  Webb takes colour street shots of great chromatic contrast and with unsettling, but perfect composition.  Some of his very best work is in his book, The Suffering of Light. Even if…

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Company Gardens Pixie

ByDMcA

Click to show full screen. The last few days in Cape Town were pretty hectic, as always, and we returned 5 days before Christmas into several (solvable) crises, so I have been unable to publish the last couple of week’s shots until now. This and the next 5 days or so will all be street/park…

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Salt River Sunday

ByDMcA

Again with some Street photography.  I chanced upon Salt River railway station while wandering around Woodstock in eastern Cape Town.  A characteristically South African location. I came across it by following some very well dressed people, wondering where they were headed.  Its a huge station, about Clapham Junction sized, in a totally obscure part of…

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