Making Picture-Perfect Memories for life
Myriad memories frozen in time
”A mind stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It has been a while since I did any birding photography. At one stage in my career that was all I focused on and one way or the other I just stopped. Why I have no idea but this I can say I have missed it a lot. I think it is time to start doing it again. I totally forgot how to do bird in flight photo’s and jeez did I have a lot of out of focus ones….
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Coreen
About a week ago I went to visit a dear friend in Table View. I grabbed my camera bag just in case… So glad I did.
I decided to go to Blaauwberg to check out a new spot for some future photo shoots. Got some beautiful photo’s of our beloved Table Mountain from different angles. 
I also spend some time there photographing the waves breaking against the rocks with Table Mountain in the background.
For Lizette’s third photography lesson I decided that a field trip will be the practical thing to do. I took her to Melkbos, Blaauwberg, Table View and on our way back we stopped on the Vissershok Road and at Clara Anna Fontein.
At Melkbos Lizette had to take some landscape photo’s using her tripod and her 18-55mm lens. She had to move around and capture the area from different spots. She also had to play with her ISO and her Aperture Priority. She had to make sure that the photo are in focus and also at the right exposure. To get this right she had to play with her ISO and F-Stop settings.
Here are some of my photo’s taken at Melkbos also using my Takara Tripod, My Canon EOS 7D and my Canon 18-200mm lens.
It was freezing cold and we moved on to our next destination Blaauwberg. Here I borrowed Lizette my Sigma 70-300mm. She was in love with the lens. The main reason I think is because she could zoom in. Again she had to use her tripod and also do some free hand shots of birds in flight. We also had to test our patience to get some nice splashes against the rocks.
Here are a few of my photo’s taken at Blaauwberg.
After our shoot at Blaauwberg we went to Table View were we had a light lunch and the I went and took some photo’s of the ship wreck. I’ll post a series of the ship wreck over the years one of these days.
We then went home via Vissershok Road.
Our last stop before heading home was at the fence of Clara Anna Fontein a Private Game farm not far from us.
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On Monday hubby took me to Blaauwberg on the Bike so that I could capture some everyday life photo’s and of course some landscape photo’s. When I walked past this one lamppost and saw the rust on it my first thought was texture the Travel theme….
Yesterday Hubby spoiled me with a outing to Blaauwberg on the bike. I love sitting on the back and taking in the surroundings.
I took this photo of Table Mountain as my photo of the day. Table Mountain had a Tablecloth of clouds over it. It was cold on the bike but when we were down at the beach the weather were perfect and only a slight breeze.
This morning Hubby took me on an outing to Blaauwberg. Here are some more everyday life scenes.
Okay I believe in job creation. But oh my goodness just look at the mess people make. Why do the local municipalities even bother putting dustbins all along the sidewalk?
This is so sad. Can’t people keep their bottle or paper in their beach bag or in their hand till they find a dustbin…
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