By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity
Its that time of year again and the dead have arisen to walk the streets and we are back in the saddle with another dubious lensbaby fuji combination. This time its an 80mm edge and a 35mm sweet spot lens though and the light is less harsh and lower down as the late afternoon approaches. […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity
Putting words to images can sometimes be a challenge which produces interesting results. Not all captions conform strictly to the haiku format but are in the style of. For those who have not yet published their work in book form it can be a rewarding exercise. Try it ! It makes for a personal gift […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity
It was a warm sunny autumn morning – not a cloud in the sky – late in the season but the Cape doctor (that’s our local southeaster ) was howling and sea sand was blasting across the shore. It was time to take the grumpy mutt – the spaniel – for a walk on the […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity
While browsing one of Pascal’s week links articles I happened to click on the link relating to hyperrealism and the following description was headlined. Hyperrealism style in photography brings out intense colors, contrast, and sharpness of a scene as opposed to what is visible to the naked eye. The photographer Connor Daly was noted to […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity , How-To
You might be forgiven for thinking this is going to be a blog about cooking but it does contain a list of ingredients and instructions. Surgeon General’s Warning : Contains a high dose of technical ingredients and artistic post processing. For the technophobes feel free to skip the blurb and jump to the pretty pictures […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity , Opinion
Yesterday I went on a guided tour of a township in the city. Pre-planning for the shoot I decided in my wisdom that I would shoot jpeg only and in Sepia with a soft focus lens to add an authentic look to the images. I like to travel light, so simple enough, the lensbaby soft […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity
If you were to go down to your local beach in the morning to catch the sunrise and were confronted with the view below, you might be forgiven for feeling a sense of spirituality. You might even find that elusive thing called calm if you sat on the rocks and meditated taking in this vista. […]
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By Lani Edwards | Opinion , Travel Photography
For someone who has lived almost their entire life on the bottom tip of Africa, surrounded by a buttocks-numbing icy ocean on the one side and a flat rock that had your back on the other, coming to America was an assault on the senses. Living in Cape Town you are spoiled by all […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Opinion , Travel Photography
I am not one to put much score by gear technicalities but hold that thought. As for GAS I am not sure I can stomach it either , if you excuse the pun. A lot has be written about the advent, advancement and coming wave of the cellphone camera tsunami. I have tried taking photos […]
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By Paul Perton | How-To , Uncategorized
Just a few weeks ago, Cape Town was in real danger of becoming one of the world’s first major cities to run out of water. In several storage dams, the water level was nearing single digits; unrecoverable reserves, as the movement of water would stir up way too much silt and rubbish from the dam’s […]
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