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Black and White Forays

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Just felt like taking some black and white shots around the house. Very sunny day as you can see from the strong contrast in the pictures. A very good test for the dynamic range of the camera. The best ones are posted below...nothing serious, just dabbling in composition and contrast.

The Old Biscuit Mill

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The Old Biscuit Mill in Cape Town is an old mill which has been converted into a food, craft, and clothing market which opens every Saturday. Assorted vendors from all over the city set up shop in the courtyard and inside the warehouse and tent. Loud noises from the cooking and crowds fills the ears and the multitude of aura's from all the wonderful food from all over the world fills the nostrils. Streaks of light leak through the various opening in the roofs and light up the clouds of hot steam rising from the meals. A look around and one sees the movements of bars of light across the bodies of the equally multicultural inhabitants who are eager to taste their next delicious delicacy. This all makes for a grand audience to photograph. People aside, capturing the food is equally rewarding. During my previous trip to this wonderful place, I was accompanied by friends who gave me a chance to capture their eagerness, happiness, hungriness, and wonder.  The photographs below are som

Favourites From France

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The following images were taken on my trip to Paris, France in July this year. All images were taken with a Sony a300.

Hello, world...

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Brief intervals in time and space...brief in time because photographs are relatively small in the temporal realm relative to everyday human life; brief in space because most photographs only capture a small amount of the physical space around us. Although there are examples which defy these descriptions most photographs fall within these boundaries. An excellent example are the photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. These are neither brief in space nor time.  The purpose of this blog will be to showcase my experiments with photography, both in the digital and analog realms. Hopefully through these pages and pictures I will be able to capture truthful moments, however brief, which will make you feel something , anything .  And hopefully I will find out something about the world, and also myself, through the images that will follow . With that said, the following images were taken in Cape Town, South Africa with a Minolta X-70 (aka. Minolta XG-M) with Fuji Superia 200 using a