Weekly Winners 14 - 20 December »

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Here are more of favourite photos from my Hermanus trip this week… yes, I took hundreds of photos!

Hermanus from the cliff path
Hermanus from cliff path

Pretty little mall
Tiny mall in Hermanus

Wild Flowers
Wild flowers

Sparkles in the sea
Sparkly ocean

Dung Beetle
Dung Beetle in action

Grassy dunes
Grassy dunes

My Uncle Bobby and Tanner walking on the beach
Man and his dog

Kite Surfer mid-flight
Kite Surfer

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Grungy Car »

I didn’t only take photos of Fiona at the old car when we did her maternity shoot on Sunday.  And these photos are perfect for this week’s Metal photohunt (I haven’t taken part in photohunt for a few weeks).

My first couple shoot »

I took Elaine and Bryan to a ruin that I found in Muldersdrift today for some photos, as a practise shoot.  We had loads of fun exploring the old house, and we ended up really filthy.

Elaine and Bryan

Laughter

Walking away

Elaine BW

Focus on Elaine

What I learnt today…
1.  Wear closed shoes when doing a photo shoot in the veld.
2.  Use a smaller lens.  I should have stuck to the 18-55mm lens or the 50mm lens rather than trying to be clever, because it was late afternoon and the quality of the shots weren’t brilliant with the big zoom.
3.  Learn more about poses.  LOL, they kept asking me what they should do, and I was just blank!! LOL! I should have been more prepared.  I’ve read lots of stuff re poses etc, but I should have read them again.

Weekly Winners: 24 - 30 August »

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Gazania
Gazanias

Mielie Field
Mielie field

Nature taking over
Nature taking over

Prunus blossom
Prunus blossoms

Spring Flowers
Spring flowers

I know I’ve shown this one this week already, but it’s my favourite shot of the week

Yellow Weaver
Yellow weaver

Dirty Feet
Dirty Feet

Clapping
Connor clapping

I’m sure the water is warm enough for me to swim
Let me swim

Clivias
Clivias

Playing around with gradient mapping in Photoshop
Clivia gradient mapped

Spikey ball seed pod
Spikey ball seed

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On the road again »

I just love the scenery on the way home from Natal to Johannesburg along the N3, especially going through the hills of Natal to the flat scenery in the Freestate.  I’m getting quite good at taking photos from the car while it’s moving too!

This shot is my favourite, I just love all the brown wintery colours at this time of the year…

Just before Harrismith
Just before Harrismith

Farm in the Freestate
Farm in the Freestate

And of course, I just have to find ruins to take photos of!
Ruin in the Freestate