Posts in Category: travel photos
Dassie
A blast from the past as I get ready to head back down to South Africa in May. This is a dassie – they practically pollute Table Mountain in Cape Town during the warmest, sunny days and love to lounge about on the warm rocks.
tan
sunset
Orange light across orange made the green seem to pop. Sometimes, even with a good digital SLR, I still wish I was shooting slides in a film camera. DSLR still isn’t there with the depth and color when compared to something like Fujichrome Velvia – at least for outdoor shots. Compare the tower picture I posted and look at the warm colors against the dark sky – I don’t think the Rebel would have captured those colors in the same way.
And now I’m all done being opinionated. For today. Maybe.
sunset
Rebel XT
ISO 100
55mm (cropped a bit in CS3)
dragon’s perch
From the top of Table Mountain, looking down onto Camp’s Bay with Cape Town at my back. The clouds cleared later and I spent a good bit of time exploring the amazing plant life up there. Also shared part of my lunch with a dassie – might post that picture later.
dragon’s perch
tower
Don’t know what I enjoyed more – hanging out in the park as the sun set or talking to all the guys from Senegal and The Gambia who sell souvenirs there.
waiting
Another old shot from the deep digital archives. This one, like “market going,” was taken with an old Sony Mavica FD-71 back about 1999 or 2000? Maybe?
Just outside of Thiés, Senegal this man was waiting on his children to walk home from school.
waiting
Gion
Waiting to cross the street. I remember getting lost and reveling a bit in the feeling… always enjoy being lost in a new place.
Gion
Rebel XT
sunset
A long, cold day and the hot tea (yes, you can buy hot tea from these machines!) tasted fantastic. I cracked open the can, had a swaller of tea, and realized the sunset was reflecting right in front of me.
tea
blue
Back before I used a digital camera.
blue
Pentax K-1000
Fujichrome Velvia ISO 50
50mm
