Blogg
May 2010
30/05/10
This was my first visit to the Northern Cape and I did not really know what to expect from the landscapes. Being a born Capee (Western Province), the furthest that I have ever traveled up North were Nieuwoudtville. The image I had in my mind of the Northern Cape were of flat landscapes and open skies.
I have invited my sister along to keep me company in between shoots and this turned out to be quite an experience for both of us. I am used to scaling mountains, climbing trees and traversing gorges in search of that perfect angle. As we got out of the car at our first shoot together, she looked up at this beautiful mountain and remarked what a pity it is that we cannot see the landscape from the top. Twenty minutes later, as we stood looking over the landscape from the top of the mountain, she dryly remarked that she did not mean it literally.
At Augrabies National Park we were in festive moods, the weather was great, the scenery beautiful and the accommodation luxurious. She chatted non-stop as I composed my camera over the gorge to shoot the waterfalls and for a moment I lost my concentration and gently knocked the filters that attaches to the lens, against the railings. We watched in disbelieve as my filters slipped off the lens and tumbled head over heels; tip…...tip…..tip…..tip…….and came to rest on the edge of the gorge. A dassie sniffed curiously at the filters. A shocked silence followed, I could not believe that three thousand Rand’s worth of filters has just become part of the Augrabies statistics. What would have been a great evening became a very quiet supper.
Luckily, with the help of Marieanne and Brandon from Camquip who couriered me a replacement set of filters, I was able to continue shooting two days later.