Photographs

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,…

Taken in the Bo-Kaap district of Cape Town.  The walls are really that colour. In fact I turned down the brightness and saturation for this shot. The area is very well known, but the residents can rightly be a bit prickly about being blankly photographed as though they are in some kind of zoo.  I…

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 ,…

Just beyond these rocks is where the Noordhoek surfers go – it was pretty wild the other night – too dangerous for surfing, and too dark.  But I couldn’t help but be impressed by the power of the waves.  Capturing them is always an experiment in time.  A very long exposure (like my favorite 4…

  The scene on Noordhoek Beach  20 minutes after sunset, looking away from the sea. No good sunset last night but a nice view back to the village.  The lights on the right hand side are 6km away, at the other end of Long Beach, or which Noordhoek beach is the North western part. A…

A morning walk with M*t*n and P*tt* on the beach at Kommejtkie.   Walkers, surfers, dogs f*cking, families, loners, getting a mild dose of pre-breakfast exercise, on an uncharacteristically cold and grey strand. Later I went for a run on Noordhoek beach, 6km over. I had driven back, changed, and then started from the other end…