Cape Town International Kite Festival

The 18th Cape Town International Kite Festival, 3 and 4 November 2012, was held at Zandvlei, Muizenberg. The funds raised went to Cape Mental Health. For more information on the festival go to http://www.capementalhealth.co.za/kite/index.

To view all the photographs go to my website http://goo.gl/aBCrW.

Steven Leonard (South Africa) is a stunt kiter.

You should see how he dances with the kite.

These girls are part of the Malaysian Team

Photographing in the Moonlight

 The sun goes down, you pack the camera away. The moon comes out, get your camera and tripod out.

Buildings reflecting in the dam.

I was at a function at Morgansvlei Country Estate (www.morgansvlei.com) on Friday evening. Late in the evening I went outside to get some fresh air. The moon was almost full, and there were some clouds in the sky. The lights of the Morganvlei buildings were reflecting in the dam. The moon were lighting up the clouds. So I got my camera and tripod out. These photographs are a result of the shoot.

Clouds in the moon light

Buildings reflecting and clouds light by the moon

 

The photographs were shot at shutter speed of 15 to 20 seconds.

More photos can been seen on my website, click to view http://normanc.photoshelter.com/gallery/Moon-Light/G0000kQ8oGMKegqM/.

Best piece of photographic advice I can give to anybody;

1. Shoot. 
2. Criticize the photographs.  
3. Understand why a photograph works or doesn’t.  
4. Think how you could have improved the photograph.  
5. Start again.

After Sunset

Don’t put your camera away when the sun has set below the horizon.

If there are clouds on the horizon, they can catch sun after the sun has set. These conditions create amazing scenes. Mountains silhouette, red and orange clouds, dark blue to black sky. If you add reflections, all the better. The latter photographs were taken up to an hour after sunset.

Turning an un-photogenic building to a photogenic building

This hotel has been on the market for some time. The building is not very photogenic, due to the lighting. The front of the building is south-east facing, with trees in front, so too many shadows. To help sell the hotel a photograph was need to catch the eye of a prospective buyer.

Front of the hotel

Pool area of the hotel

So how do you capture the essence of the hotel, in this case, photograph it at night.

Pool area at night

This shoot required working after hours, models (friends) some drinks and sandwiches.

Absa Cape Epic - Tulbagh - Stage 3

Stage 3 meant that the riders headed to Worcester. The day was overcast with the threat of rain.

I walked to the top of the water fall at the Cape Natures station Waterval. To this point it was very easy riding and promised to be a cool day, so there were great smiles.

When this rider said that he was last, I was left with an empty feeling. After the build up to the event and the activity when the Absa Cape Epic was in Tulagh.

Last rider

Absa Cape Epic - Tulbagh - Stage 2

This was a tough day. The riders had a ± 640 metre climb over the Witzenberg Mountain into the valley behind.

I left home early and walked up the track and waited for them at the end of a steep section. This was about half way up. Most of the riders were pushing their bikes at this section. But the views were great looking across the valley.

Even though this was a touch section, it was amazing how many people simile for the camera.

Joel Stransky

Various decorations were placed on some bikes.

The ride up was slow, but down the top riders rode like a bat out of hell.