Category: Photo of the day

52F. Cloudy, rainy. Cold.

This morning was a great day for photography. Rain. You know those rainy day shots where the reflections of the road is just wow. The people with their umbrellas just all over the show.

It sucks if you’re walking in the rain and your raincoat decides to imitate a sieve. So there I was walking in the rain while the thunder rumbled around the sky.

I managed a few photos after I reached my usual hangout before work.

First photo is of the outside of a fruit & vegetable shop. The woman who works there arrives a bit later and opens the store for business. Sometimes we talk for a few minutes before I head to work. The lights, the orange / red from the wall and steel posts made a good composition. I did a b&w version as well but it doesn’t really capture the mood in my opinion.

Next image are two school children and their father walking to school. I see them each weekday morning and they often go into the shop, buy a few things and go on their way. I might try and capture a few more photos of them in future – as they leave & enter the store.

This is the opposite corner of where I stand. While I’m here I can often see the extent of stupidity in some road users. Speeding or just skipping the stop sign. Even seen an accident on this very corner.

I like this image because of the motion blur of the car. When taking a photo with the standard camera app I don’t always catch the blur. 9 out of 10 times I’ll freeze the car in the photo. No blur. The blur, the red car, the lights and the sign make this a interesting image for me.

I’m busy working on a few things at the moment:

1. Getting a few more interviews ready. I enjoy the process around this – find out more about the photographer / writer / artist, looking at their work. Putting down a few questions to get some insights into them and their process. I’ll probably do this more in the near future.
2. Working on a post for me website. You might be tired of reading this but my time management is not good. The few hours I have after I arrive home gets divided up between a few things. I want to squeeze in “write for an hour” somewhere in there but at the moment I’m super tired so most evenings I don’t write. (I’ve forced myself to sit down and breath live into this post).

In closing.

A bowl of instant noodles with curry vegetables and a cup of coffee is waiting for me. I’d like to hear your feedback on these photos. Which one is your favorite? How do you spend your time after you arrive home from work, if you have a day job?

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As always, thanks for reading : )

9/4/2025.

As Winter keeps creeping closer we’ve been having some odd weather. The past few weeks brought us lots of rain. More than the previous years. And to many people this signals a cold winter.

This was taken a short walk from where I live. The wind tends to blow from the south east which is to the right in the image. The cold fronts come up from the Western Cape which starts happening in May and June. I’m looking forward to walking cold empty streets with my camera this year.

This is my favorite image.

It’s a hall which is used for amateur boxing training & matches. It used to be in a terrible state a few years ago when illegal squatters moved in and took up residence inside the building.

In the two years it has been cleaned up and fixed. Boxing is a popular sport in the West Rand area. The two trees in the foreground are witstinkhout (Celtis Africana). The leaves on some of the trees are already turning yellow which makes for great photos.