Blogg

July 2009

I was born and bred in the Overberg where I watched year after year as the seasons changed the landscape from green wheat fields in the winter, to ripe yellow wheat lands in the harvest season, to black sun-scorched earth in the summer. Somehow you never get tired of seeing this repetition over and over again. Just when you think you are getting tired of the landscape, it changes it’s colors again.
As a photographer I have keenly watched this change in the landscape each year. My heart’s wish is to capture this magic transformation, but although I have many images in my portfolio of the Overberg, there are not one which I am happy to point at and say, “This is the Overberg.” . Capturing that beauty in one image has always eluded me.
I receive many e-mails of people who’s stumbled onto my work, a lot of them contain locations of places which they have seen and which they feel I may enjoy photographing. I am eternally grateful for these tips, even if I do not rush out and seek it out, I keep them tucked away in my mind for when I am in the region to explore the site mentioned.
I received such an e-mail in my inbox this week and immediately realized the potential. This person encouraged me to climb to the top of Krige Silos (between Caledon and Riviersonderend) and shoot the rolling hills from this vantage point. I soon contacted the relevant people at Krige Silos and was climbing the terrifying steps to the top of the silo the next morning before sunrise. I did not get the photo that we both had in mind for the shot, but the potential is there for my “This is the Overberg”-image.