The last long holiday

It's been  while since I last posted on the blog. It was quite a crazy time finishing my degree in graphic design and I've been on holiday without any internet connection. With only my analogue camera, lovely. This series captures bits and pieces of my holiday from Port Nolloth in die Northen Cape,  to Pretoria and Cape Town. It's been a journey. Hope you will enjoy it with me too. 

This photograph completely surprised me. And that is exactly why I love film photography. I though I had a 36 frame film in my camera and after 24 photographs I just kept shooting but my camera made a weird sound and it struggled to switch on to the next frame. Silly me. And this is how that mistake came out. Not so much of a mistake in the end I'd say.

This photograph was taken in Woodstock, Cape Town. I used a warming filter.

 These two photographs was also taken in Woodstock, Cape Town. It is the Old Biscuit Mill, a have to visit if you are in Cape Town. The old biscuit mill is revamped into small and interesting designer shops. The Lomography Exposure Gallery is also situated here. 

These two photographs is taken in the Stellenbosch wine route area at Delheim. It is a beautiful wine land surrounded with great blue mountains and big trees. And the wine is lovely of course ;)

These next few photographs is taken at Duncan Yard in Pretoria, South Africa. There is also a lot of interesting designer shops and coffee shops here. It has an old, nostalgic and rustic feel to it.

Taken in the silent beauty of Port Nolloth, South Africa. Port Nolloth is the last town before the border between South Africa and Namibia. Here your soul can breath in the untouched beauty of nature. We went to kayak on the ocean one day. I love the red of the kayak against the blue ocean. I took this journey with Pierre Joubert, whom you can also see in the photographs.

One of the houses in Port Nolloth. The old and rustic feel makes for beautiful photographs and I especially loved this orange house. The shadows on the sink walls made interesting patterns which added to the photograph. And of course the 'burning' look on the left hand side due to exposure for it was the first photo of the film.

Playful with color filters

With tis film I experimented with some new color filters including blue, yellow and green. And it turns out that I happen to love the effect it has my photos :) It took me quite a while to finish this film which makes it interesting because there are so many places I documented and forgot about it. I love to revisit my journey and with film it is even more nostalgic and memorable.

Totally in love with the color overlay in these two photographs.  I used a blue filter for the top photograph. I found that when shooting with a filter, the color of the filter coms out stronger in low light than in bright sunlight.

These two photographs was taken at Oppikoppi Sweet Thing 2012. Both a summary of this music festival. I love the light reflected from the bottles. 

Taken at Park Acoustics at Fort Scanskop in Pretoria, South Africa. Every month people with the love for music and feeling like chillin' it out attend this show where you sit under the trees, drink wine and listen to local acoustic bands.

I love the striking white light coming in from the side and the beautiful blue color overlay. This photo was taken in a dark room with a bed lamp from the side. I used a blue filter and a very low shutter taken without a tripod. For this reason the photograph is a bit shaky. 

This imaged caught my eye due to the interesting patterns created by the sunlight and the window in the foreground. I used a yellow filter taking this photograph.

These two photographs is taken in an old broken house a few blocks away from my house. We sneaked n and found that it is currently the home of a few beggars. It once was a beautiful old house with high patterned ceilings and wooden floors and big windows but the story it left behind is even prettier. The beauty in the broken.

These four photos was taken at a dam wall. The person in these photographs is one of my friends  Pierre Joubert who is now also inspired and convinced to shoot in film :)

A new member to the Shootcase family

Two weeks ago we went to the Photo and Film Expo at the CocaCola Dome in Johannesburg. We attended a workshop on the Art of Photography by PIX Magazine editor, Fiona Peake. Peake showed a few photos of her own work and others who also inspire her. When her Lomography photographs hit the screen I felt excitement stir inside. It was  so refreshing to listen to a professional photographer who has a passion for the art and emotion in photography rather than just the technical rules about it. 

I was immediately sold on buying myself a Lomography camera. I love the unexpected outcome of photographs taken by these cameras and I fully support their initiative of 'the future is analogue'. Someone has to start somewhere to save the culture of film photography.

Be sure to see some of the photographs taken by this new member of the Shootcase family and do not to miss out on the Photo and Film Expo next year!

A journey long overdue

The reason for this post being long overdue is that the film have been standing on my desk for almost  moth before I developed it and before that I took about two month just to fill the film. When shooting in film you plan every frame every carefully because once you took the photo the moment is documented. I like this about film because one doesn't go about shooting in all directions and in the end deleting almost half of all the photos you took. Every frame is special and even when it was a technically unsuccessful photograph, film just has that quality to make it look nostalgic and artsy. 

This photo is one of my favourites. I like the strong steel line leading the eye in the whimsical seascape in the background. I love the bit of purple tint in the photograph.

My friends, Iske Conradie and Sannika Jansen van Vuuren, chased the seaguls across the beach in seapoint.

These four photographs was taken in the Durbanville Hills Wine Estate. Once again Iske Conradie and Sannika Jansen van Vuuren as my accountable models. It was winter time in Cape Town. For this reason the wine lands is beautiful orange and red color, contrasting with the intense green in between the wine yards.

I stumbled upon this beautiful graffiti artwork in Cape Town City. The photos came out a bit grain, I think because is was too late the afternoon and it was a bit too dark. I like the warm orange color, emphasizing the feel of rust and decay. The lonely chair standing in front of the wall conveys a eerie and lonely feel.

                           

This photo was taken in the Kirstenbosch Gardens in Cape Town. I like the open space of blue sky balancing with the tree and black birds sitting in it almost like decorations.

I love the way the sun outlines the figure on the lefthand side  and the orange lens flair.

This is also one of my favorite photographs. The interesting angle and the perfect blue sky creates a feel of carelessly lying on the grass.

These photographs is taken in the industrial area in Potchefstroom. I like shooting in areas like these where there is lost of rust, decay and warm textures. These buildings communicate a lonesome feel, a place without words but you can feel it breathing.

The fence leads the eye into the photograph and creates an interesting geometrical pattern.

Oppikoppi in Northam. Definitely a festival to attend if you love music.