Posts Tagged ‘Water’

Newlands Forest reservoir

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
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Newlands Forest reservoir., originally uploaded by Craig is shooting.

One of the many reservoir’s that are found along the edges of Table Mountain. This one is just on the edge of Newlands forest.

Day 178: Newlands Forest

Monday, July 26th, 2010
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Day 178: Newlands Forest, originally uploaded by Craig is shooting.

Newlands forest is still one of those special places. In about 5 minutes you can go from speeding down the highway, to walking along this quiet forest path on the side of Table Mountain. Truly a special place.

Newlands Forest

Looking at Cape Town through the trees of Newlands Forest. In the distance you can just make out the water of False Bay.

Flower in Newlands Forest.

Just a small, bright and blue flower to brighten up any day.

Path

A path in Newlands Forest. I am not quite sure why I took this pictures, but I kind of like it.

Newlands Forest

The canopy of some of the enormous trees in Newlands forest. It gives a real sense of vertigo looking up at the trees.

Waterfall behind Kalk Bay

Monday, July 12th, 2010
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Waterfall behind Kalk Bay, originally uploaded by Craig is shooting.

We had quite a lot of rain on Saturda. which made the waterfalls on the mountain really full today. This is a 1.3 second exposure of one of the waterfalls on Boyes Drive, behind Kalk Bay.

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Day 173: Fishing Boats

Sunday, July 11th, 2010
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Day 173: Fishing Boats, originally uploaded by Craig is shooting.

HDR shot of Fishing boats lined up in Kalk Bay Harbour. The boats usually go out at night, so they are having a well-earned rest.

Lakeside from the sky

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Lakeside from above

Lakeside from above. Zandvlei in the front,with the Muizenberg mountains in the distance.

Muizenberg / Lakeside

From the bottom right, you can see a little of Muizenberg beach, and the exit of the vlei in to the sea.
Towards the back, you can see Marina da Gama on the right, and Zandvlei (the lake) in the middle, with the little village of Zandvlei (where I live) on the left.

The Muizenberg villiage is bottom left.

Marina da Gama \

Marina da Gama

Day 171: Heading into sunrise

Friday, July 9th, 2010
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Day171: Heading into sunrise, originally uploaded by Craig is shooting.

A great sunrise early in the morning, caught on the way to work.

Days 169: Sunset in Lakeside

Thursday, July 1st, 2010
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Days 169: Sunset in Lakeside, originally uploaded by Craig is shooting.

I was playing around with long exposures and a tripod after sunset. This pic was taken of Zandvlei about 45 minutes after the sun went down, with a 25 second exposure.

You are looking from the Lakeside End, looking towards Marina da Gama.

Day 132: It’s raining

Sunday, May 9th, 2010
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Day132: It’s raining, originally uploaded by Craig is shooting.

Winter have arrived in full force in Cape Town. This shot was taken of the rain falling on my front veranda (or stoep as we call it in South Africa), I was trying to catch the raindrops bouncing against the paving.

Day 126: Langebaan

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
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Day 126: Langebaan, originally uploaded by Craig is shooting.

The Langebaan lagoon in the late afternoon. The poles are actually there to separate the public boat launch area from the bathing areas of the beach.

Even though it is on the West Coast, the lagoon stills has very (we at least quite) warm water.

Day 120: Zandvlei

Sunday, April 18th, 2010
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Day 129: Zandvlei, originally uploaded by Craig is shooting.

Zandvlei on a still autumn morning. A very peaceful place to take a walk.