Category: Johannesburg

  • Taking a Camera for a Walk

    A few months ago my team at work did a photography course. The course was supposed to be two Saturdays. I was away for the first session but my colleagues filled me in so that I could do the homework and join the second session. I don’t consider myself great with a camera but I…

  • Autumn Sunday Afternoon (slowing down)

    The sky is the colour of winter. A little bit hazy; a little bit far away. Like high-school rugby matches from crowded concrete stands. Like long Grahamstown walks past frost-whitened fields. Like quiet days studying for mid-year exams. The air is still warmer, though. Still a sunny Autumn day. Still warm for now. Later there…

  • Joburg Zoo

    It felt good to wear my boots again; to slip into jeans and boots and a loose T-shirt and set off with my camera and my bag. Of course there have been plenty of other places in between but I haven’t set off on a local adventure, an adventure close to home, like this in…