Hiking Lions Head Cape Town South Africa

Cape Town | South Africa

Cape Town is my hometown so I don´t tend to take a lot of photos when I´m here… my time is spent more on seeing friends and family and doing those everyday mundane things that are familiar, things that mean “home”. Stuff that you take for granted when you live somewhere suddenly becomes the most important thing ever when you live away. Things like a decent cup of tea, Marmite on Provita, waking up at dawn to climb a mountain… So these photos are a bit random and don´t have a very clear story line, but sometimes that´s just how…

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Paternoster, West Coast | South Africa

Paternoster is a small fishing village on the west coast of South Africa and even though it´s in the same country as the Transkei coast in the Eastern Cape, it could´t be more different if it tried. Some 1500km´s of coastline separate the two… the distance is so great that they don´t even share the same ocean and instead of rolling green lawns there are rolling white sand dunes. Paternoster is on the icy Atlantic ocean and though the sea is clear blue and it looks like you´re in Greece, the water is cold enough to take your breath away…

Mdumbi Beach Transkei

Mdumbi Beach, Transkei | South Africa

During our most recent visit to South Africa, we flew into Joburg and drove down to Cape Town via the coast. During this road trip we spent a bit of time on the Transkei coast, in the Eastern Cape, and my mind was absolutely blown by how amazing this part of the country is. It was my first time here but certainly won´t be the last. The landscape here is so incredible…colourful, round Xhosa huts scattered across rolling green hills covered in the most incredibly manicured lawns, I could just imagine hordes of British garden enthusiasts going nuts over the impeccable…

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Southern Cape Coast

Sometimes I take loads of photos. Sometimes I feel really inspired and I shoot without even having to think very hard about what I´m doing… it´s just me and the camera and my surroundings and it all blurs together in a kind-of haze where I am vaguely conscious of the fact that I´m not really in control of the situation, nor do I really know if I´m shooting on the correct ISO or if my shutter speed is just right for the specific subject… but I just go with it because I know that when I´m in that zone it´s…

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Karoo Road Trip – Calitzdorp to Prince Albert

The last few days of our Karoo road trip were spent in the town of Prince Albert, right at the foot of the Swartberg Mountains. Our plan had been to drive the Swartberg Pass from the Klein Karoo over to Prince Albert, but the thunderstorms persisted and there was constant cloud on the mountains which meant there wouldn’t be much to see from the top, so we went around the mountain instead, through the Meiringspoort. We seem to attract the rain whenever we’re camping… it’s like the weather KNOWS that our tent isn’t particularly waterproof, and even though we went…

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Karoo Road Trip – Ladismith to Calitzdorp

The distance between Ladismith and Calitzdorp really isn’t very far, but we took a bit of a detour to get there and wandered around on dirt roads for a few hours, chatting to Nguni cattle and enormous tortoises along the way… getting caught in the first of many thunderstorms and then witnessing the most dramatic sunset. The light in the Karoo is really unlike  anywhere else in the world…

Looking Back: adventures, road trips and my last roll of film…

I love these photos for too many reasons to fully explain. The memories they carry make me nostalgic for the “old days” but also make me laugh at how silly and inexperienced we were, and how much dumb stuff we got up to… In 2006, home from my second contract as a cruise ship photographer, my good friend Tara and I decided to go on a “Thelma and Louise” road trip… except we didn’t plan on killing anyone, blowing up petrol trucks or driving off a cliff at the end… but I digress. We borrowed my dad’s 4 wheel drive…