Comet McNaught

It has really been a while since I have had time to update the blog. I hope to get some more time soon. Last night we drove out to Bloubergbeach to go and have a look at the McNaught Comet. I got a couple of pics and posted 2 of them here.

I will go through the rest of the pictures at home and see if there are any other nice picture to post.

I have also started taking pictures of the Greenpoint Stadium that will be replaced with the new 65000 seat Stadium for the 2010 World Cup Soccer. I will try and post pictures of the progress.Here you can see the entire area that will be used to develop the new stadium and surrounding facilities. All the green sports fields will be reclaimed and used. There has been a lot of protest of the people in the area against the development, but the benefit for Cape Town as a whole will out weight the complaints of a couple of people. I just hope that the public transport in the entire Cape area is drastically improved.

The new year

We made it safely back to Cape Town. We traveled approximately 3000 km in the week that we were away. I have seen parts of the beautiful country that I have never seen before. Unfortunately the weather was playing along most of the time to get pictures. As you can see on the picture here the clouds were rolling in for more rain. We stopped over in Graaff-Reinet on our way to Oudshoorn and I took a pic of the church in the middle of town.

We are preparing now for the new years eve party at a friends house tonight. I hope that everyone will have a great party tonight.

I hope to go out and get some more pictures soon to update here. Also have my 30th birthday coming up this week. Hope to remember some of it... ;)

The journey home.

It is 06:45 and we just had breakfast at Kroonstad. Going to Graaff-rienet now.

Big storm

We just had a huge thunder storm here in Pretoria. It rained 60 mm in
less than hour. There was some really close strikes. Tried to get some
videos and pictures. Will have look at them as soon as i can get to a
pc.

In Pretoria

We just arrived in Pretoria. It is 30C outside and we are enjoying a beer.

In Jo-burg

We arrived in Johannesburg at 5 this morning. On our way to have breakfast.

10 hours of driving done.

We just arrived in Bloemfontein. It is 00:00. There are some people
that drive like absolute idiots. I now understand why we have one of
the highest death tolls on our roads.We drove through a huge lightning
storm. It was amazing the lights al around us as we drove. The first
1000 km is done, another 700 to go. At least there is not as many
trucks on the road as usual and most of the traffic is on their way in
the opposite direction.

Testing the remote update

I have enabled the remote submit facility on my blog to update it why we are traveling.

Holiday and printed pictures.

I went to Cape Town International airport this morning to see my girlfriend off. She is going to Germany, to her parents for Christmas. It is going to be strange to not see her during Christmas. My parents and i are driving up to Johannesburg to go and visit my sister and the rest of the family.

I had the one panoramic pictures, posted previously, printed on A1 yesterday. i First mad a gloss print at Agfa in Canal walk and then tried to find a place where i could have the picture framed. After searching the entire Canal Walk and being told that no one can help me this year, I went to Duo Frames in Monte Vista. They are small but they know what they are doing. The woman i was dealing with was friendly and gave a lot of advice for future prints. E.g. If I print pictures that i want to frame, I should rather use a canvas print, because when a gloss picture is covered with a glass panel and the picture and the glass touch, you get "wet spots".

So last night when we went back to Canal Walk I had the same picture printed on canvas. Can't wait to see it framed.

Emile and Salome's tour through Europe.

I am following Emile's Blog where he is currently updating his blog with their travel stories as they tour through Europe. It makes for an interesting read. I hope you check in and read some of his humorous comments ;)

What do you want for Christmas?

Well, I am going to see that family this Christmas, but this guy wants a xbox 360...
Hope you get what you need and you give what other want.

We visited Bulshoek

As a company we went away to Bulshoek dam this weekend. It is located a couple of kilometers on the other side of Clamwilliam. I have added some of the non-work-related pictures for your viewing pleasure.

Panaramic of Cape Town

Last weekend I took the camera out around Cape Town and took some panoramic pictures. I am loading them to show how beautiful the mountain can be. ;)

Panoramic Cape Town

Since I don't have Internet access at home at the moment I will not be able to update as often as I like. When I get the opportunity. I will pop a new picture on the blog.

Shy Guevaras

Last night we went to Klein Libertas in Stellenbosch to go and see Shy Guevaras perform live. Charl and Dedre invited us to join them. Charl works with some of the band members. I took the trusty Camera along to snap up some pictures and video.

I really enjoyed this evening. The bands performed on a stage outside. The weather was absolutely perfect and the music was awesome. I will be donating the pictures to the band so that they can sort through them for their website etc.
Check out their website for some song downloads. If you get the opportunity to see them live, do so. It was worth the drive to go and see them.

I will post some pictures of the other bands (Bed on Bricks and Taxi Violence) once i have sorted through them.

I will also try and upload a video I made of one of Shy Guevaras' s songs.

Gone Fishing

We got up at 6 this morning, took a drive out to Brandvlei near Worcester ( about 100km from Cape Town). The Stean, Charl and some other friends (that don't have blogs ;) wanted to go fishing. We went along for moral support and taking pictures.
Here is a dragon fly that I caught on "Film". Here is a picture of some of the guys fishing in a stream that runs under the N1 (Highway running out of Cape Town.) it is a bit of a walk, but worth it. If I wasn't taking pictures, I would probably have swam here.When I got home this evening, I saw this nice cloud formation...
I also have to put another sunset picture ;)

The Sun sets over the weekend

The weekend is over and nothing much to say. A nice sunset on Saturday.


The clouds made some interesting formations. I think we should go somewhere and get some sun rise pictures sometime.

From the beach

Took this picture over the weekend before the sun set. i have always loved the way that the sun beams shine out from behind the clouds.

Thanks to you.

I have been checking the stats for the blog and have found that there are a few people that come visit on a regular basis.
I would like to thank you and I would like to hear from you. Please send me an email or a comment so that I can hear what you like and don't like about the blog. Also I would like to hear what kind of pictures you would like me to go look for. :)

A visit to the beach

After returning from a client this afternoon I decided that we must get out and do something outside. So we drove out to Bloubergstrand to take some pictures of the sunset.

There was some amazing sights with the sun disappearing behind the clouds and breaking through small holes.

The last picture here is of the sun breaking through the clouds over Robben Island.

Emergency photo shoot.

I received a phone call this evening: " Hello?...Hi?..Leon....Can you hear me?... are you getting pictures of it?" I opened the curtains and saw why the phone call. Thank you Salome and Emile , Again... ;) The sky was almost on fire.