West coast flowers

Just a few of images of the beautiful display of wild flowers we saw on our recent trip to the west coast.

VIews of the garden

I just want to start off by saying that Blogger is driving me batty. I mean, how slow can you go?? Every single thing from uploading photos to commenting is taking absolutely bloody ages and its really testing my patience. And off course causes me to blog even less than I should...
Anyway. We moved into our new house 6 weeks ago and its quite interesting exploring around the garden and trying to figure out what all the different plants are. It's also beautiful now that everything is exploding into colour and I must thank the previous owners for creating such a lovely garden.

Fynbos

One of the things I like the most about living in this part of South Africa, is the abundance of Fynbos everywhere. I just love it.

Roses are red

All I want for Christmas is a macro lens

I used to love photographing flowers and could spend hours trying different angles and settings. Lately I have been very bored. I want to get up close and personal. I need a macro lens!
I now try to do all kinds of editing things with the flower shots I have and they end up looking like something you would find on a greeting card - from your grandmother (no offense, Gran).

Things seen at a picnic

We went for an early morning picnic at Spier Wine Estate yesterday morning. I took a lot of pictures of the kids feeding the ducks, but decided to post some of the other things I found interesting.

Simplicity

Weekly Winners: 8 - 14 February

We were out exploring the wine estates again - it's a tough job, but somebody has to do it!! The following four shots were taken at Muratie wine estate.











En hierdie een is spesiaal vir jou, Karlien!

Are you real?

This flower is so beautiful, it almost looks like its made out of crinkle paper.

Weekly Winners: 11 - 17 January

Walking away


My cousin got married yesterday and I was very touched by their beautiful ceremony. I decided not to interfere with the photography of the bride, but couldn't resist to snap at a few other things...

One of the cakes


...and another


She had my favourite flowers on the table (Protea)


...and I couldn't stop photographing them


Sunset over Noordhoek beach


House over-looking the ocean (wish it was mine!)


All by its lonesome


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And more from the macro lens...

A walk at the Helderberg Nature Reserve

The Helderberg Nature Reserve is just a few blocks from our house and we discovered that it is a fantastic place for a picnic or just to go for a walk. The walks are spectacular, winding through the Fynbos and with beautiful views of False Bay. These are just a few of the pics I took on one of our walks. (At first I considered leaving my camera, not sure if I felt like carrying it all the way and not convinced that there will be all that much to photograph. So glad that I decided to take it in the end!)

Leading the way into the sunshine

Weekly Winners: 4 - 10 January

Boardwalk


Beautiful butterfly


Little house on the beach


Laughing in the wind


Garden furniture


Flowers from my mom


Eeck!!


Joubert holding an Iguana


Artful cappuccino


Moon rising