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Flickrmeet at Boston Breweries

A group of members of the Cape Town Flickr Meetup Group Group met up yesterday afternoon at Boston Breweries, an independent micro-brewery situated in Paardeneiland, Cape Town. Chris Barnard, the founder and chief brewer welcomed us, offering the choice of beer or tour first.  Naturally we chose beer

Kalk Bay Harbour Light

       craniac Kalk Bay Harbour Light

Ever changing

When we moved from Gauteng to the Western Cape at the end of 1999, we chose to live in Strand; mainly for the small-town atmosphere and the lovely beach front. The small-town atmosphere is still largely there, despite the huge amount of development going

Taalgebruik in die Werksplek

I’m not sure where this originates from.  A friend e-mailed it to me and I thought it worth posting.  Thanks Dré. TAALGEBRUIK IN DIE WERKSPLEK: Dit het onder die aandag van Bestuur gekom dat sommige individue in die maatskappy vuil taal tydens normale gesprekvoering teenoor hul kollegas gebruik.  Weens

Futuristic Pagoda

       craniac Futuristic Pagoda

Sunset Over a Calm Sea

This was taken around the same time as Post-apocalyptic Sunset but this image is more true to what the eye saw. Two shots, exposed for foreground and background were merged with a layer mask in Elements, simulating the use of an ND gradient filter. Processing was then finished

Pringle Bay

Click here to view a larger version or on the image above to visit the Flickr page. I don’t own, and can’t afford to buy, one of the latest versions of Photoshop that have good panorama stitching support; or a specialised stitching application for that matter. I

Post-apocalyptic Sunset

To the eye, this was a gentle, pastel-coloured sunset but I wanted to come up with something more punchy. This was shot auto-bracketed (+/- 2EV). The frames were enfused to a single image with improved dynamic range and this image was then processed in Lightroom.       

What happened to the fail whale?

Looks like twitter have done away with the fail whale.  Now there’s a caterpillar and an ice-cream.        craniac

Big Stick

The 332 meter USS Theodore Roosevelt, known as “Big Stick”, anchored off Cape Town yesterday and of course I had to have a look and try and get a photo. I chose Signal Hill as my vantage point and this was the best I could manage with

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