First Rain Of the Season

After my renewed passion for photography, I have really been making an effort to take pictures where ever I can, and first up was after one of our very first rain falls of this season. It was a sweltering hot day, and the afternoon rain fall was very welcome. Oh and did I mention it hailed, whole garden was white as snow. Before taking any photos I decided to wait a bit for the sun to come back out, and what an afternoon it turned out to be I'm glad I waited. The warm ground evaporated the water quickly causing a mist like effect :-)
I'm very blessed to live in the country side so to speak of Johannesburg, on a plot.
(All Photos are Resized but unedited, If you would like the settings of the camera that was used leave me a comment)

For this one I tried something new with the settings, and I quiet like it give it an old style look.

Next few pics I took while at the vaal and one of My peacock taking a break in the shade.

This one is my favourite

 Well that's it for now, December is upon us soon so hoping to have some great posts.

A Renewed Passion

So its been almost a whole year since I have written anything on my Blog, and its not because life has been so boring. But just so busy, anyway really going try make an effort to post more.

Over the past month I have really found a renewed passion for something I use to love so much and that is photography, since I was just a little boy I use to love taking photo's and playing with my my fathers cameras. And as I grew up I really loved how you can capture something, look at the photo and be fascinated with so many things.

I've had to re learn a lot of the settings needed to take awesome photo's but its slowly coming back to me, here are a few photo's that I have just loved taking. If anybody wants the settings I used please just pop me a message. All photos are unedited (click on them for HQ version)

The first 2 photos are to show how different a photo can look depending on what you focus on, and how it brings up new colours

 This one is of a sunset while at a Private lodge, it took me a few tries but eventually found the right settings and I'm pretty pleased on how it came out. Last one was just for fun :-)

Lastly its spring time in South Africa and I'm very blessed to live on a property with such an awesome garden, with Roses and Orchids all over SO I thought id share a few. The Red of our roses are so amazingly bright :-)
And the Last photo is of an Orchid we keep, It has such amazing colours.

Thanks to everyone for reading, Ill be working on my photography skills over the next, and going to be trying to get some really unique and difficult shots. Two photos that inspire me... I love the long exposure one, of the aeroplanes landing at the airport.