The Cape Town Photographic
Club celebrates its 125 anniversary this year and one of the high lights
amongst their special events was an excellent Mini Congress in De Hoop where Guy
and I were honored to be amongst the guest speakers.
The weather was not great
but this did not stop us to rise early I the hope of catching a sunrise at
Koppie Alleen. It was so overcast as we made our way to the beach by the light
of our head lamps that it was soon obvious no sun was going to pierce this dense
canopy of clouds. As always, I never give up and started shooting in complete
darkness, painting the rocks in front of me with light. The beam of my flash
light looked ridiculously insignificant in front of this majestic landscape and
amazingly, it had some effect while the sea and sky blended in countless shades
of blues to deep indigo. Eventually, a little glimpse of light filtered through
the clouds and surprised me with the most unexpected range of colours dancing
over the water and trough the waves.
It was a great start of the day!
