Daily Photo – Graskop Stream

This photo is actually an HDR made from three different slides. I happened to have a -1, 0, +1 EV set of three slides for this scene so rather than just use the scan of one of them, I decided to take scans of all three and run them through Photomatix to get this result.

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Daily Photo – Blyde River Nature Reserve

I drove this route a few times looking at my photo collection but my slides of the views from God's Window don't do justice to the scene I remember. Certainly one day I was up there the valleys and Lowveld to the east were shrouded by low clouds - because I was looking down on the top of them!

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Daily Photo – Impala

I took this picture of an Impala as we were driving towards a watering hole to watch the animals arrive at dusk. Like a lot of animals, they stop to check you out before deciding whether to run away or ignore you. Shortly after this photo, it decided to run away.

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Daily Photo – Lebowa Sunset

I captured this sunset a week or two after I crashed the boss's car. I was struck by the cloud formation at the higher altitude. Below it is another layer of thin clouds giving the patches with less clarity.

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