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16/12/2024

What a lovely weekend!
From chilling on the deck, through game drives and animal tracking - despite it being unbearably hot, we had great weekend packed in activities!
The shots are just compressed versions from my camera, I didn't even have time to go through them properly!
We had such a great time 😍

12/12/2024

Wide angle Mavic 3 panorama, the drone stayed very steady, but you can see that the Moon moved!

07/12/2024

Slide for panorama 🙂
Last year’s hike to Drakensberg’s Marble Baths.
I managed to recover few photos after my 360 camera hanged on me during the timelapse 😂
It was very gloomy and rainy that night, fortunately it cleared later so we didn’t have to hike in the rain.
I had a little bit of help from Luminar in terms of editing 🙂

05/12/2024

Moon and Venus last night 🌒🌟
Single exposure from my backyard, almost no processing (just contrast and highlights adjustments).

04/12/2024

Moon and Venus earlier tonight 🌒🌟
Single exposure from my backyard, almost no processing (just contrast and highlights adjustments).

25/11/2024

Today marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Dear Ladies, Laddettes, “Bossas” (yes, it is a word in South Africa 😀 ), Gals, Chicks, Misses, Lasses, Birds, Bit*hes, Babes or whatever you like to call yourself 😅 don’t EVER let anyone tell you you are not worthy ❤️
Stand for yourself ❣️
🤺ALWAYS 💪

24/11/2024

What Kimberley is known for is the Diamond mine and the Big Hole - the deep artificial lake that filled the inactive (and dangerous!) remains of the old, inactive part of the mine.
But it is also a City of Firsts 🥇🏆🏅
Kimberley holds a pioneering position in innovative South African creations.
In 1882, it became the first city in the Southern Hemisphere to have electric street lights.
Then came the South Africa’s first stock exchange, drive-in theatre, and professional nursing academy.

These inventions from South Africa highlight the country’s ingenuity and problem-solving mindset, underscoring the significant influence South Africans have had across various fields.

Ironically, this problem solving abilities were fueled by the world embargoes imposed onto South Africa due to the apartheid era which cut the country off many resources.

18/11/2024

This image seems to have gotten some traction on my Moon Photography group, so I’m posting it here as well :-) no AI, just a regular stack
EXIF and details in the second slide

12/11/2024

Hold to join :-)
Johannesburg panorama 🌇🌃🌆

10/11/2024

One of the last Supermoons raising right next to the Hillbrow Tower in full disco mode, HDR stacked for best effect
Aligned in
🌕 🇿🇦

03/11/2024

I found a very cool app to overlay camera settings on a photo! It’s called Photo Summary (how unimaginative is that 😂)
It reads EXIF from the photo and overlays on top of the image (like in the second shot). I know you can do this manually, but I could never be bothered 😅.
The app is not free, but $ 2.5 seems like very little to pay for the convenience 😇
It does not allow you to edit the EXIF though, it would be nice if it did, but there are other apps that can do this.

28/10/2024

I left my camera under a tree 🌳 for this 😅
I must admit that star trails 💫 are not my strong point.
I struggle with getting ANY colors in the stars.
I do think it’s my processing though, so hopefully final version will be better 😊
Practice makes perfect - so they say 🤩

27/10/2024

Blue hour or golden hour?
Which do you prefer?

26/10/2024

Home for the weekend

24/10/2024

Johannesburg sky - dusk and night.
All images (including the starry landscape in the second shot) are from my Mavic 3, but the stary landscapes is a stack of the foreground and 50 images of the sky in order to get enough definition in the sky.
Photos taken from above my house facing the area of Sandton with The Leonardo in the skyline. Astro aligned in Photopills.

11/10/2024

Long exposure stacking and day to night conversion on a hazy day.
Which one do you prefer?
This is the first time I tried both of these - the weather was quite bad and although it was late afternoon, it was still very bright - I think that the haze made it brighter.
But I decided to do some shooting while hubby was fishing 🎣
The subs were only 5 seconds, f22, ISO100 so there was no way to capture the blur - the only solution in conditions like this is to stack the short exposures.
As it was very bleak due to the mist, I dehazed it, bounced clarity and made it more contrasty - no LUT was used for this.
No AI either, despite how it’s tagged (for whatever reason the big M likes to tag things as AI)

05/10/2024

I'm yet to discover a disappointing place in Drakensberg. Does it even exist?
Shots taken at:
1 & 2: Marble Baths, Injisuthi
3: Bannermans Hut, Giant's Castle
4: Sentinel
5: Witsieshoek Lodge
5: Sani Pass

22/09/2024

Lost in the wonders of the cosmos ✨Lagoon and Triffid Nebulas and NGC6559 region in two color versions (SHO and HOO) - three stunning regions of space, are a breathtaking reminder of the universe’s beauty and complexity. Located in the heart of the Milky Way, the Lagoon Nebula (left) is a massive star-forming region where new stars are born, while the Triffid Nebula (right) offers a striking contrast with its brilliant red and blue hues, marking regions of gas, dust, and intense star formation. On top the NGC6559, which is a star forming region 5000 light years away from us.
All three are found in the Sagittarius constellation, just 5,000 light-years away from Earth. Gazing at these celestial neighbors is like looking at the past and the future of our galaxy in one frame 🌌

The set up I used is pretty simple - Rokinon 135mm lens with my ASI1600 and L’Enhance filter on iOptron SkyHunter mount.
This was around 5 hours of data, processed in Pixinsight and finished off in Lightroom

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I know this shot is "nothing to write home about" but I'm no wildlife photographer, and shooting animals at night with average gear is not easy... This is just Nikon Z50 with 50-250mm lens at ISO3200, f6.3 and 1/5s... Straight out of the camera (no noise reduction or other Lr/Ps tools yet) View from our deck #luccalodge #wildanimals #cheetah #big5 #southafricatravel