Tag Archives: macro

Night-blooming cactus time-lapse

Posted on: February 7, 2018

Thurs 18 January 2018 Golden Torch Cactus produced the most amazing flower over the course of one night in late January – here’s a short time-lapse as well as a few stills from the night.

Posted in Animation & video, Photography, Plants
Tagged animation, cactus, echinopsis, favourites, film, house plants, macro, nature, personal, photography, planting, plants & flowers, south africa, south african, summer, time-lapse, video

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Kapstaden till Kiruna – 11 days in Sweden: day 10

Posted on: October 14, 2017

Fri 14 October 2016 Gothenburg A relatively last minute addition to my itinerary was visiting Gothenburg. It was, once again, a ‘stars aligning’ kind of thing where Tiger Lou, another of my favourite bands, happened to be playing and … Continue reading →

Posted in personal, Photography, Travel
Tagged architecture, autumn, birds, boat, buildings, church, city, full moon, goteborg, gothenburg, history, kapstaden till kiruna, lakes, leaves, long exposure, macro, memories, moon, moon rise, nature, night, nights, outdoors, photography, plants, plants & flowers, ship, station, stockholm, street, sunset, train, travel, trees, water, winter

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Misc photos of 2016

Posted on: January 3, 2017

2016 The danger of doing something too often is that it loses its charm – I shoot a lot and sometimes having a camera with me just feels like work, but I tried really hard to make time to shoot … Continue reading →

Posted in personal, Photography
Tagged abisko, animals, aurora, autumn, birds, blossoms, cape town, cat, cats, ceres, cherries, christmas, daisies, end of the year, evenings, favourites, flower, flowers, freya, g7x, instagram, ixus, jasper, kapstaden till kiruna, kira, kiruna, landscape, landscapes, lily, macro, maine coon, memories, monzi, moose, mountains, nature, new year, northern lights, norwegian forest cat, obituary, olivia, outdoors, personal, pets, photography, plants & flowers, pocket camera, powershot, remembering, review, rip, selfie, south africa, south african, spring, summer, sunrise, sunset, sweden, table mountain, tribute, west coast, west coast national park, winter, year end, ziggy

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World pangolin day

Posted on: February 23, 2016

Sat 20 February 2016 Pangolins have been among my favourite animals for many years so it’s always surprising to me how many people don’t know about them. Aside from being really adorable and peaceful creatures they are also one of the world’s most poached … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Ramblings, Random
Tagged animals, close up, conservation, favourites, figurine, garden, gold, macro, outdoors, pangolin, photography, weekends, world pangolin day

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Misc photos from 2015

Posted on: January 10, 2016

2015 By the end of last year I was shooting 6 days/nights a week; spending more time with my camera than ever before has been great but unfortunately it doesn’t leave a lot of time for personal photography. Here are some of the … Continue reading →