Art In Photos Beaumont, Blaauwklippen, Camberley, De Meye, Elgin Valley, Moreson- Taken By Me In South Africa March 14th-22nd, 2009 With John Morrison

Funny, I took these pictures just a month ago in March and as I post them here on my art blog I begin to appreciate some of the work I did while there. Though a labor of love it was still nonetheless a labor as I believe I took around two thousand photos or so that long week.

I acted quickly as as often as not was upset at missing some of the many pictures that I could have attempted if only I was quick enough, there was memory in my camera and the two betteries were charged!

I also took some short videos that I still have not seen. Oh well : that's just something more for me look forward to seeing myself and then sharing with you.

I am an artist and so for the time-being photography is one of my main, current art forms. I love it, really I do. Here I often had to compose pictures quickly in my hand and allow for the movement and the exact moment that my two cameras would actually snap and frame the photo as I held the camera waiting!

I'm not a professional and yet I take it very seriously. I realize that I frame the pictures and see quickly main components that I want in each of them. I do miss some of the richness that the final pictures may have with reflections and distortions in the glass : sometimes making the faces and people smaller within the glass and larger just outside. It's a curious effect that I enjoy because it forces one to look longer to see exactly what has happened, planned or not.

I'm delighted that I do not know ever exactly what I will get : that's fun and keeps me guessing and on my toes.

Some of the pictures I take with the idea of preserving a memory, time and place and people. Others are more whimsical and of-the-moment, totally unplanned and uncalculated. I just snap and see what turns up!

In many of these pictures you see grape juice that is fermenting and will become wine. They often llok quite murky. I like that, especailly when I get it as the glass is swirled around madly, exactly as to add air but stay comfortably within the confines of the glass.






I hope you like the way I framed some of these pictures. Sometimes strange things came out, too as my new camera and I were learning to get along together on this trip. Cheers, TONY