Category Archives: Photos

Ride Till It Sizzles

Mountain biker riding a wall against a blazing sun

A mountain biker rides up a wall at The Playground, a free-riding area below the Afrikaanse Taalmonument in Paarl, South Africa.

Airborne

Panned photo of airborne mountain biker against a blurred background

Joining a few members of our photo club and an energetic group of mountain bikers this morning for a shoot, I had great fun capturing panned shots of the riders against the background of the forest.

Getting Closer

Fire on the Helderberg above Somerset West

If you compare this photo to the one in my previous post, that was taken last night, you can see that the fires are closer. They must be getting quite close to the suburbs high up the mountainside.

Fire on the Helderberg

Fire on the Helderberg

There has been a fire around Stellenbosch for the past few days and last night it had spread onto Helderberg, above Somerset West. This photo was taken from my front garden in Strand.

Threes

A flower

Texting

Two teenaged girls texting in tandem

Concertgoers

People enjoying a concert

People rocking along to the Jesse Jordan Band at a recent sunset concert at the Helderberg Nature Reserve.

Jesse Jordan Band — Sunset Concert this Sunday

The Jesse Jordan Band will be playing a sunset concert in the Helderberg Nature Reserve on Sunday 1 February 2009. We’ll be there.

Rusty Grin

Rusty old car

The IT industry and Chuck Norris

A selection of IT related Chuck Norris facts that arrived by e-mail.

  • Chuck Norris invented C++ after roundhouse kicking C – TWICE
  • Chuck Norris is the Domain controller
  • Chuck Norris has the IP 0.0.0.0
  • Chuck Norris is mailer-daemon
  • Chuck Norris has Windows XP on his Apple MAC
  • Chuck Norris never gets the page cannot be displayed error
  • Chuck Norris CPU doesn’t have a fan
  • Chuck Norris can write DVDs on floppy drive
  • Chuck Norris invented the internet
  • Chuck Norris can paste pics in Notepad
  • Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked his 14400k modem & that’s how we got ADSL
  • Chuck Norris’ dot matrix printer prints photos – in colour
  • Chuck Norris’ PC speaker gives him 7.1 DTS surround sound
  • Chuck Norris monitor has no glare… no-one glares at Chuck Norris
  • Chuck Norris can edit PDF files
  • Chuck Norris rips CDs with his hands
  • Chuck Norris has a yahoo account with hotmail
  • Chuck Norris has an Intel CPU on an AMD motherboard