Rusty old chain

The wall of an outbuilding at the boys school had a built in metal pole, with a piece of rusty old chain hanging from it, which was presumably used to lock a no longer in existence gate. The wall, chain and pole seemed to be a good study for texture and composition etc. however, the colour just didn't do anything for me, so I cropped it, and changed the colours.

(post by Tony)

Go Goth

The stark black and white of the average goth type make-up look inspired this image. Kinda. At the height of the rolling power outtages in South Africa, we came across this power thingie, and a little photoshop later we were able to tell the light from the dark. Even though Eskom couldn't, and still seems to have the odd problem discerning light and dark.

(post by Tony)

Construction crane boom at Hemingways in East London

While the Hemingways Mall in East London was under construction, there were these massive great cranes on the site. We stopped there one morning so that Terry could take some photos of the cranes. I was sitting in the car, and noticed that one of the cranes had swung its boom out over the roadway. I had only a cell phone with me, but used that to take this crane pic.

(post by Tony)

Stuck away

This is another study in apparent futility. I saw a picture, and tried to get it into the camera. The camera saw another picture, and went its own way. At the end of the day, I was stuck with a picture of a wall with, in a distant corner, a fern growing out of it. I cropped, color-tinted and swore at Photoshop until I got this result.

(post by Tony)

Sand Ladies

Sometime in the winter of a few years ago, we were messing around the shallow waters of the Gonubie river, the boys were playing, and Terry was taking photos. I was wading around, ankle deep in the raging waters, watching little fish get swept away, when I noticed this interesting pattern in the sand under the ankle deep water. Out came cell phone, and I got these sand ladies.

(post by Tony)

Surf photo

Somewhere along the line I took a photo of the surf and sea, across some rocks. While playing with the photo, I was astounded at how dull and boring the surf seemed, and how the photo was! The photo was grey and miserable, and had no colour or atmosphere. It had nothing! A little Photoshop, a lot of profanity, and I think I captured something in this photo that could mean anything, depending on who is viewing it.

(post by Tony)

Water boys in Gonubie in Gonubie River

Gonubie river, about two or three hundred metres from the river mouth, somewhere during high tide and low tide, there is an island thing, separated from the shore by a 7 metre wide channel. The water in the channel is, at that stage of the tide, less than a metre deep, and is a great place for kids to play semi-safely.

(post by Tony)

Terry at the beach

The boys were sand wrestling or something, and I was driving the camera. I took this photo of Terry and her smile, not totally unawares, but not totally prepared. She doesn't like this photo, but I do. It's one of very few taken in the year or so before then that her smile was totally relaxed and spontaneous, and the eyes....

(post by Tony)

Sand message

While I was trying to make sense of exactly how to get what I was seeing into the camera, (not easy, cos no matter what I see, and point out to the camera, the camera gets the impression wrong) Terry got a tad bored, and started doodling in the sand. Not only did she write the english message, but she translated the message into advanced aztec-peruvian glyphs, which are just below the original text. The glyphs look like footprints.

(post by Tony)

Rock at Glen Eden near East London

On the same morning that the footprint photos were taken, I took this rock photo. At the time all I was trying to capture was the impression of this solid gigantic rock formation, silhouetted against the sky. When I was playing with the image later I noticed the anguished screaming face in the formation. The entire thing is about 900mm high!

(post by Tony)

Footprint and footprint sunrise

Early one winter morning, down at the beach, there was evidence that someone had passed this way earlier. Barefoot. We were a tad curious, but not that curious that we were going to follow the prints. Not knowing the origin of the prints adds an air of mystery to them... What we do know about these prints is that they are human, and were left by a male or female...

 

So, to preserve the footprint in the sand, and to give the impression that we had nothing better to do with our time, we aged the print a bit, and made it seem that we got to it in the early early morning, while it was still bathing in the early golden glow of the rising sun. It is very likely that the prints weren't there that early though. Nor were we.

(post by Tony)

Yellow lemons in the lemon tree

Something made us look up a song on You Tube today, that we used to kinda enjoy in the 90's - Lemon Tree sung by Fools Garden and we enjoyed listening to it again.

Lemons are quite something to look back on as a fond memory - and even still use to create future memories. Plenty of fresh lemon juice as well as a bit of cinnamon and sugar on a lovely warm, thin and very flat and smooth pancake goes down really well. The pancake must be dripping with lemon. Never quite sure if the yellow colour of a lemon is considered bright yellow, dull yellow, pale yellow, or just plain good yellow - but it was obviously a similar colour that I wanted my hair to be when I used to sit out in the sun with sticky fresh lemon juice on my hair, trying to get my hair more blonde - when I was much younger than I am now! Whatever the kind of yellow a lemon is, lemons are here to stay, and a lemon tree looks good in the garden with those yellow lemons showing up against lovely green leaves - those fresh lemon tree leaves smell just divine too when they are crushed and held up to your nose. Every garden should have a lemon tree.
ps - do you see the "face" in the top right corner of the lemon tree picture? If you can, spend more time looking at the picture, and you'll be able to make out some other faces in that lemon tree too!
(post by Terry)

Fireworks display in East London at the East London harbour

I took these firworks display photos some years ago - about 8 years ago I think, at the East London harbour festival. I had an old manual SLR camera, and this was my first attempt at taking fireworks pictures. I used the "B" setting, and kept the shutter down for as long as I wanted, to capture the light in the sky - I didn't have a tripod, and just held my breath trying to keep very still. I think I held the camera shutter in position for about only 4 seconds, perhaps even less. Although these photos are not as clear as I would have liked, I'm relatively pleased with the results. I haven't seen a great fireworks display in a few years now, and am keen to also take my boys to see a good fireworks display - I wonder when there will be another good display in East London? I don't mean little sparklers and small displays, but great big rockets exploding all over the sky - like the display that night at the East London harbour which was awesome.
(post by Terry)

Surfers Marathon photos taken at Bonza Bay beach

THESE BONZA BAY BEACH SURFERS MARATHON 2010 PHOTOS ARE NOT FOR SALE!  Neither are the ones on our TnT Blog.  SEE, ORDER, AND BUY SURFERS MARATHON PHOTOS IN VINCENT PARK CENTRE AT POLLOCKS PRO PHOTO.


These 2010 surfers marathon photos displayed beneath were taken for fun only. View a few more 2010 surfers marathon photographs on the blog of TnT Unleashed 1pic4twenty

There are also another 3 posts on this blog containing more Surfers photos:

More Bonza Bay Surfers Marathon photographs

Photographs of the 2010 Surfers Marathon near Gonubie Hotel

2010 Surfers Marathon photos taken at Gonubie River, in East London

UPDATE:
Also see:
Surfers Marathon 2011 East London Planning and Tips
and
2011 Surfers Marathon is Tomorrow!

Photographs of the 2010 Surfers Marathon near Gonubie Hotel

THESE SURFERS MARATHON 2010 PHOTOS were taken for fun, near the Gonubie Hotel, in Gonubie, East London, and some Surfers photos are on our other blog too.

IMPORTANT:  THESE PHOTOS ARE NOT FOR SALE.
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We had a fun afternoon taking these photographs of the runners enjoying this annual East London Coastal Challenge race - enjoy!


View even more of the 2010 East London coastal challenge photos on this blog here:

Surfers Marathon photos taken at Bonza Bay beach

More Bonza Bay Surfers Marathon photographs

2010 Surfers Marathon photos taken at Gonubie River, in East London

More Bonza Bay Surfers Marathon photographs

THESE SURFERS MARATHON 2010 PHOTOS ARE NOT FOR SALE.
POLLOCKS PRO PHOTO IS WHERE YOU BUY SURFERS MARATHON PHOTOS.
THE PHOTOGRAPHS DISPLAYED HERE, and on our TnT Blog, ARE JUST FOR FUN AND TO ENJOY LOOKING AT.  ENJOY!

There are 3 more posts on this blog that have 2010 Surfers Marathon photos:

Surfers Marathon photos taken at Bonza Bay beach

Photographs of the 2010 Surfers Marathon near Gonubie Hotel

2010 Surfers Marathon photos taken at Gonubie River, in East London


Bonza Bay beach is a stunning beach in Bonza Bay, East London (Bonza Bay is at the bottom end of Main Road Bonza Bay in Beacon Bay) and it was a great beach to relax on, and cheer on the East London 2010 Surfers Marathon runners. We had fun taking a few photos of the runners too.