One year ago today Sara and I rode the cable car to the top of Table Mountain with my dad. I shot this with my widest lens (a 17mm, but effectively a 28mm on a cropped sensor), and was really wishing for one of those nifty 10-22mm ultra-wide angle lenses. It was incredible [...]

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One year ago today Sara and I drove up from Cape Town to Stellenbosch, famous for its university and its wine route.
I actually toyed with the idea of applying to a PhD program at Stellenbosch in Christian Ethics (particularly the nonviolent ethics of black South Africans under apartheid), and visiting the campus did [...]

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One year ago today, Sara and I visited my cousin and his family in Wartburg, a little village outside of Pietermaritzburg with a large German population. This is a shot of the pipes of the organ in the “upper” Lutheran church in town. The organ is listed as a historical landmark. That [...]

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One year ago today we left Kruger National Park for the long, long drive down to KwaZulu-Natal and my former home. We were trapped for a good 30 minutes by this family of elephants on our way out of the park, so I took advantage of the opportunity to snap a few shots of [...]

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One year ago today, Sara and I were eating tea and scones underneath this large thatched shelter at the Skukuza Rest Camp in Kruger National Park, a wildlife reserve about the size of Massachusetts.
This colony of bats resides there by day, sleeping and generally staying out of the way, and then swooping out [...]

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