On Saturday morning I loaded the family into the car and headed out to the Gamtoos Valley west of Port Elizabeth for the annual Patensie Citrus Festival. There were a couple of reasons for our little outing the first and foremost being the fact that I loaded a boot full of fresh fruit and vegetables for a fraction of what I would have paid for it in a supermarket in the city. Plus it was absolutely farm fresh. The Gamtoos Valley…
I've never used the HDR effect on any of my photo. Some people over use it but making all their pics HDR although it does enhance some pictures beautifully. My main reason though is because I don't have Photoshop. Over the weekend I discovered that Picasa does have a HDR effect button (don't know how I missed it before) so I decided to try it out on a picture I took of Shark Rock Pier in Port Elizabeth last week.
The last of the pictures I snapped returning to Port Elizabeth recently was of the Coega Industrial Development Zone. The Coega Harbour is visible on the right and Motherwell on the left.
Een van die heel eerste fotos wat ek geneem het toe ek my eerste digitale kamera gekoop het was 'n padda in 'n poel onder 'n waterval in die Tsitsikamma-nasionalepark. Elke keer as die na die foto kyk dan hoor ek die kinderliedjie van die padda wat wou gaan opsit. So sommer net vir snaaks wees plaas ek die liedjie se woorde.Die padda wou gaan opsit by sy nooi in die vlei aham,die padda wou gaan opsit by sy nooi in die…
Last weekend I posted aerial pictures of the Colchester dune fields and the Swartkops River area taken on my flight home from Indaba in Durban recently. I've got two more pictures I took approaching Port Elizabeth which I would like to show. Today's one is the Coega deep water port. With the completion of the Coega Harbour Port Elizabeth became the first city in South Africa to have to commercial posts.
When I was in primary school we went on a school tour to Cape Town and one of the places we visited was the ghost hill in Somerset West. I remember how the teacher parked the school bus on the hill, switched it off and let go of the hand brake, making the bus free wheel... UP the hill. I've always wanted to return and on a recent trip to Somerset West I made some enquiries and headed up to…
In the 1870's the city fathers of Port Elizabeth could not postpone the erection of a market building, especially for the sale of ostrich feathers and produce, anymore. A building was commissioned in 1878 when a competition was run for the best design for the building. While the roof was being built in England the council realised that the cost of the building was going to be a lot more than initially thought and the plans were scrapped. However there was the matter…
A giraffe at Amakhala Game Reserve outside Port Elizabeth gawking at the tourists gawking at her. Actually, she posed very nicely for us all to get a couple of photographs.
Sokkerstad, ook bekend as die FNB Stadion, in Johannesburg is die grootste stadion in Afrika en kan net minder as 95,000 mense akkommodeer. Die stadion is opgegradeer net voor die 2010 FIFA Wêreldbeker en het die bynaam Kalbas gekry omdat dit soos 'n tradisionele Afrikapot lyk.