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Biltong Meets Mold, Dies
February 16, 2012

It's over. The biltong recovery failed. New mold grew so fast on my rescued blitong bits that I could almost see it move. At Marie's suggestion, I decided to at least take a look at the microscopic universe that was invading the delicacy and setup my makeshift macro gear, but I did a poor job and the shoot was messy. I have my lack of patience to blame, in addition to poor lighting in late afternoon and the disturbing fact that very high magnification reveals an almost constant shaking of our apartment, possibly due...

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South Africa(n) Rocks
April 11, 2011

Sure, the Western Cape scenery is grandiose. But looking at one's feet is often the best way to discover gems. These were found on an aborted walk above the Constantia Nek. Clouds were closing in on us and having started much too late in the afternoon, under-dressed and lightly equipped, we were facing a long hike over unknown terrain, zero visibility and into the approaching darkness. So we turned back. Suddenly without a deadline, we looked around the trail with texture-hungry eyes and macro-enabled cameras. And since...

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My Two Cents on the Wikileaks Saga
December 10, 2010

Fear not, I am not about to fuel up the debate and take sides. I claim no allegiance to the Wikileads clan, nor do I stand on our government's side. There seem to be reasonable arguments on both ends, given their respective extremely involved - aka paranoid - points of view. What I am going to do, however, is ask everyone else to take a step back and look at the big picture. This little crisis is being turned into a mega-media red-herring. The masses are following each development eagerly, focusing on the details and...

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Tobacco Hornworms, Nature Does Halloween
September 1, 2010

As Marie posted recently, the roof farm has been under assault by a battalion of enormous tobacco hornworms. They are green, somewhat pretty and they devour our tomato plants at a record speed. Check out her post for great pictures of the bandits in action. So before waging a final battle against the invader, I got my macro gear out and despite an annoying afternoon breeze, got a few shots of the poor buggers. Their markings are simply incredible, so I focused on them - pardon the pun. Even after reading that these...

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Even more chameleons...
February 2, 2010

Ok, this has become more than a hobby, I now feel under a pseudo-scientific obligation to document the whereabouts of those absolutely adorable creatures. We've finally found Cape Dwarf Chameleons in a different area, much closer to the house, which lets us hope they might some day come back to the garden - even though we suspect there could be too many carnivorous birds around the house to allow chameleons to move back in. They seem to favour the bright green livery no matter what they stand on and I've only seen a few...

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Ticks and tricks: 5 reasons to use a photo tripod
May 10, 2009

Well, thanks to the little Skribit widget I recently installed in the upper left corner, I am getting reader suggestions for potential post topics, and - time allowing and subject appealing - I will be happy to elaborate on those suggestions. Here, hence, is the first in a series of photography ticks and tricks entries. To the question "Why do I use a tripod?", I would simply tend to answer "Because I'm lucky enough to have one." and that would feel like enough has been said. However since 6 lines do...

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