Seemingly flawless we move from season to season. There is a constant movement, one that we cannot observe; we can only feel and see the effects of said movement. Seasons change, and with that change, there is a perfectly orchestrated sympho...
I went to visit my granddad more inland from where I live (South Cape as to me living in Western Cape). We stood outside and this beauty just happened to fly by and have some late afternoon lunch. It was late the afternoon and luckily my gra...
This is the last photographs I could take of the baby helmeted guineafowls who I have tracked over the last couple of months. I think they are fully grown now and off to better gardens. I have not seen them or their mother and father in the ...
This little bird, not much bigger than a couple of centimetres (around 10 cm) has proven to be the most difficult friend to shoot photographs of. I have tried to take pictures for months even maybe years now. But they have escaped me every s...
These shy friends' last visit to my garden was at the end of August, which feels like almost a year ago. They finally returned with their kids! Mommy Cape Spurfowl brought to almost teenagers or juveniles to the garden for a brief moment. It...
I visited my grandfather a week or two ago. He lives close to the bush or forest and this beautiful bird sings early in the morning! But this is the first time I have seen them. They are very loud and they sound like the bush or forest to me...
Where I live, we have winter rain. But it is summer now, so most plants struggle with the high heat. However, with the few rain we get, the plants savour every drop they find. Yesterday and the day before yesterday we had some much-needed ra...
The Hadeda is sometimes called the "most raucous bird in Africa", according to one person's YouTube post. But the sound this bird makes is what most South Africans miss when they leave the country. It is sometimes called the "sound of home" ...
It has been a couple of weeks now that the parents of two Helmeted Guineafowls with their chicks visited my garden. They have returned and how big did they get! They are almost fully grown now and it is so beautiful and special to see that t...
These two images I took while doing a wedding shoot, stood out to me as two images I wanted to make black and white. It "screams" the loneliness of modern life between modern buildings. I want to share them with you. The first, I call "A Des...
A couple of months ago I had the opportunity to do a wedding shoot and today I want to share a couple of images from that special day. There are no personal photographs here, only some of the setting. The house they used for the wedding was ...
Today I share what I think is the Cape weaver (Ploceus capensis). I have consulted the bird watching book, google and wikipedia, and I still cannot say with 100% certainty that this is the Cape Weaver. But that as it may be, please enjoy the...
