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 Paul Perton | Opinion
I’m not quite sure why articles like this make me feel as introspective as they do. The fact is, time, place and personality alone are sufficient to produce radically different photographs. The post covering my recent London wandering with Steve and Pascal, or last year’s DS Parisian meander deliver more than sufficient evidence of our […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
The Kruger Park It took a while to get here – three days of travel – two spent on a 36 hour train journey from Cape Town that should have taken only 26 hours and then, a day long 700km drive from Johannesburg. More than 2000km in all, literally, from one end of the country […]
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By Paul Perton | Monday Post
You may be aware that we’ve been besieged in the Kogelberg region, by huge veldt fires since New Years Eve. The area is a United Nations Biosphere – the biodiversity is believed to be greater than anywhere else on the planet; more than 1500 distinctly different forms of flora can be found in […]
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By Paul Perton | Interview
Paul Bruins – I call him the Man With Legs Like A Flamingo, as he is all of 6′ 5″ tall – is a Cape Town based photographer. I met Paul at a (Facebook) Cape of Storms photo meeting a couple of years ago and we’ve kept in occasional touch, culminating in my attending one […]
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By Paul Perton | Monday Post , Uncategorized
December. Christmas is already the elephant in the room and as I’ve been out of the DearSusan loop for a couple of weeks road tripping, my thoughts turn to the penultimate Monday Post and what I can contribute. A quick check to ensure my facilities remain largely in place – on seeing […]
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By Paul Perton | Interview
Cathy is a photographer I met through the Facebook group Cape of Storms – essentially Cape Town-based amateur and pro photographers, mostly shooting urban and rural landscapes. In the year or so that I have known her, her work has improved radically, signposted by her posts on Facebook, referencing photo workshops she has attended […]
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By Paul Perton | Review
It’s nearing the end of autumn – it’s been a fantastic summer down here on the Southern Tip (of Africa). The temperatures started to rise during October and by Christmas, we were all wondering where the seasonal winds had gone, as day after day passed in a welter of clear skies and […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
Surprisingly, shooting the images for this post has proved to be much easier than writing the words. This is my third (and hopefully, last) attempt. Fynbos (Afrikaans, pronounced fanebos, meaning; small bush or little leaves) proliferates all along the Southern Cape coast, its biodiversity of several thousand species is reputed to be greater […]
Continue readingBy Paul Perton | Travel Photography
Road trip. What images the words conjure. Places seen, things spotted and mental notes made for next time. Photo opportunities. This one had a simple genesis; a wedding in Johannesburg. And, rather than fly up and back from Cape Town, we opted to treat ourselves a bit; drive a very indirect route up the west […]
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