It's been ages since I stirred my DA account. I don't even have a sub anymore.

I finished the the stupid photography certificate course that I wasted my year on.
My camera was at the service center for 9 weeks due to Canon South Africa and their service agent having the most unlikely chain of mishaps, but I have it back now.

My mother passed away last week after a long battle with cancer. I post this not for attention or sadness, but as a tribute to her. I have a lot of respect for her and loved her with my heart and soul. She was the artistic influence in my life and I will miss her dearly.

Pending a stupid little glitch with paypal I have a massive box of goodies from BH coming, including two zeiss ZF lenses can't wait.

From 2010 I'm going in to landscape photography full time. I'm kicking off with 4 weeks in the Eastern Cape mountains near Rhodes, then probably 5-8 weeks in Namibia in the rainy season. I'll start in South Africa, moving higher up into Southern Africa as I get to know the places better and become more experienced with the whole off-road thing.

It feels like my life starts in January and I can't wait to pick up my camera for that first sunset in the mountains and the Namib desert. A lot of epic images to come.

I hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday with lots of good memories! Treasure the people you love, for they may be taken away at any moment.

I'm just helping out a friend... There's no registration required, you just have to choose the photo and click on submit!

It's the 13th picture...

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I'll appreciate it! If you vote I'll gladly feature you. Just put 1 thumb code in a comment below!

My kit is in for calibration and service, 3 weeks now

Enjoy your weekend everyone

You could swear it's the result of a big production company giving Marc Adamus a film crew, but it's just a guy with a 5D II + 24mm f/1.4 and a passion for nature. This blows my mind how people are pushing the envelope of how we can view nature, utilizing the latest digital technology to continuously improve on how we can perceive it's grandeur.

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LINK IS GONE. but discussion still open

Interesting what the one guy said that it's most probably 2 different people in the videos...?

Judging By the amount of blood that fills the water and the severity of the fall the person most likely died from it. I also can't quite imagine how that ledge would have cut into his face like that.

Many people have come to me asking about ND filters, very confused about the difference between a solid ND filter and Graduated ND filter. The purpose of either has nothing to do with each other. Solid ND filters are to enable longer exposures, graduated ND's are too darken the sky in an image. Grads do effect the exposure, but that's not their purpose.

These articles by Andy Mumford explain it very nicely -

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