Hills - Sunsets In March, 2009 Outside Of Cape Town, South Africa / John Morrison Drove & I Snapped The Pictures Quickly With My Trusty Canon Camera

There's so much natural art and beauty all around that it is almost painful and certainly too much to ever appreciate or observe or serve or deserve or absorb with just our senses at play that simply/just cannot handle it all by themselves without help.




Thank the men and women that invented and perfected the cameras like this Canon that has enabled me to capture just a very few of these incredible and wonderful/dazzling split-second images of the sunsets that I enjoyed in the week that I was in South Africa ( in and outside of Cape Town ) with my extraordinary guide and South African wine importer John Morrison.




John was nice enough to take me to South Africa and to drive me around the various areas in and outside of Cape Town. We saw some of the wonderful wine vineyards, too on this trip as well as places like Table Mountain.




While John drove me around explaining so many various things about the South Africa that he loves so much I had the time of my life taking many of these pictures.




My hands snapped away ever so quickly as there was just too much for me to absorb so quickly.




These pictures in fact help me to better appreciate all that was occurring naturally around as we drove through this astoundingly beautiful countryside in and outside of Cape Town, South Africa. Thank you John and Theresa Morrison for all of this.


Enjoy these photos. Cheers, TONY

Glass Art ( Brennan, Peggy & Shannon Downey; Elgin Valley. De Meye,Blaauklippen, Camberley, Beaumont Vineyard) December 16th, 2009 : ENJOY OH BOY!

Enjoy these pictures that I took here in the United States in Washington D.C. these last few months and those that I took in March of 2009 in South Africa just for their visual tour-de-force power and charm and wit and surprise and bits of wonder and freshness that hopefully will make you stop to look just a bit closer to get more of what is captured and layered within each and every one of them : split seconds of seconds of seconds that are what they are and quite literally amazing at that. Cheers, TONY




I will probably add more as I have time ... happy holidays and New Year as it is already Wednesday evening here at home in northern Virginia at 11:40 PM on December 16th, 2009 ...




I love what the glass does here mostly with wine glasses : as well as the reflective power of shiny metal: and feathers, too that I found in between the rows of vines at the Camberley Vineyard just before it turned dark ...




Reflection through reflection through reflection captured and reflected and bounced off and back and forth and on and on and on and on ... wow, how can the human eye catch all of this as it happens so quickly? Good thing for the Canon camera's eye as well as my old Kodak camera's eye, too ... they really captured these through my eyes : three and four eyes are better than two?!?




I like all the contrasts, too of light and dark and how things got framed as well as how the wine glass reduced or enlarged or widened the people behind them : as well as all but whited them out as in these last photos here at the Michael Downey Selections ( Michael would have been 60 a few days afterward if he had lived Shannon confided in me ) 10-Year-Anniversary party of Brennan, Peggy and Shannon Downey ... I like them : so atmospheric and all ... artsy. I just love it, really I do ...

Life Through Glass, Blaauwklippen, Moreson : Water, Oil , Wine, Fermenting Grape Juice That Will Become Wine - In South Africa 3/09

Enjoy these photos that I took on my one-week trip to South Africa with importer John Morrison this March 2009. It was a wonderful blast as these photos attest. Cheers, TONY