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Rod was giving a speech and I though he might look good in black and white, with some added grain.
March 2005.
Here's an attempt at souvenir collage I did after taking the pictures at a friend's sporting triumph.
March 2005.
This came from a shoot I did recently for a property developer client. The horse's name is Dorado and the woman riding her is an ex-Miss South Africa.
February 2005.


This is Rosanne who unexpectedly appeared at a still-life workshop run by our camera club. I Photoshopped the image on the left first and then, with plenty of help from Garry on the Retouching Forum at www.dpreview.com, I tried another interpretation. Click on the images, as ever, to view enlargements.
Musical Mike, again.
Also taken at the lighting workshop.

A couple of months ago, in September 2004, we had a lighting workshop at our Camera Club. One of the subjects on offer was Musical Mike with his standing bass Maxine who may, incidentally, be the only standing bass in the world with her own tattoo.

We were supposed to be shooting using one studio flash but I felt that the modelling light from the flash was giving a nice effect so I set the ISO on my EOS 300D to 1600, and shot using the available light.
This is Durban's Millennium Tower and the picture was taken just before dawn, sometime in 2004.
The pictures which went to make up this collage (or montage??) were taken in early 2004 at the Paton Country Steam Railway at Ixopo in Kwazulu Natal. The railway runs on the narrow guage line running from Ixopo which was mentioned in Allan Paton's Cry The Beloved Country.
After not posting any pictures for a long while, here's one of SA singing star Johnny Clegg. He performed at the Roads Congress mentioned below, and I was very lucky to able to take pictures on the occasion.
Local Durban artiste Pinkie Mtshali impressed delegates at the PIARC Congress Opening Ceremony in 2003 with the power and beauty of her voice.
Eleven-year-old Nontokozo Mlaba opened procedings at the Congress by singing the National Anthem in front of a crowd of thousands including SA Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
This pic was also taken at the PIARC XXIInd Road Conference and is of Gcina Mahlope who was the narrator of the show at the opening ceremony.

There's been big news in my photographic life since putting up my last picture. I was offered a nice sum to take pictures for the daily delegates' newspaper at the PIARC XXIInd Roads Conference in Durban in 2003, providing I shot digital. It was the excuse I was looking for so I immediately ordered a Canon EOS 300D digital camera body.

The camera arrived the day before the conference but the job went well in spite of the fact that I had to refer to the instruction manual quite often during the shoot. I had to photograph many prominent people including SA Deputy President Jacob Zuma, left, and Transport Minister Dr. Adulah Omar, left.

15/12/2004: Dr Omar was already an ill man during the conference and sadly passed away a couple of months later.
I discovered this one at the bottom of a folder and I can't remember when I took it. Probably sometime
mid-2003.

 

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