Here’s a copy of a photo I’m hoping to take on 28 March, somewhere between the hours of 830pm and 930pm (local time). What’s this all about you ask? Well, the folk at WWF are behind this little intiative and their aim is to have everyone in the world switch off their lights at the [...]
Archive for the ‘Landscapes & nature’ Category
Earth Hour – 28 March 2009
Posted in Landscapes & nature, tagged cormac mccreesh, earth hour, nature photography on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
4 random photos
Posted in Landscapes & nature, tagged cormac mccreesh, digital photography, mozambique, nature photography, sunset, Travel on February 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
There are some photos I keep returning to. Maybe it’s for sentimental reasons, maybe just because they’re interesting photos and maybe it’s just because I like them. Here are 4 I keep returning to. The first is this green tree frog. It was perching on a glass door of a house in Sodwana. I borrowed [...]
Ranting about litter and respect
Posted in Landscapes & nature, tagged conservation, digital photography, nature photography, Travel on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I am pissed off. First I go to Durban on a holiday and discover the terrible history surrounding the abusive whaling industry there. Then I visit the Sharks Board, in response to all the publicity around tiger sharks dying in the shark nets, and learn that the Sharks Board intend employing drum lines to [...]
Yellow light in the sky
Posted in Landscapes & nature on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Finally got round to posting these photos. They were taken on the 5th of January just after the customary afternoon thunderstorm. It had been a spectacular thunderstorm with great earth-shaking claps of thunder and electrifying bolts of lightning shooting across the sky. When everything settled and peace returned, the birds emerged from hiding and began [...]
Summer time and the living is easy
Posted in Landscapes & nature, Urban, tagged clouds and skies, cormac mccreesh, nature photography, sunset on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a reason I choose to stay in Johannesburg over the festive season while the other Jo’burg residents migrate like lemmings to various coastal and mountain resorts. Apart from the obvious crowding that occurs when we Jo’burgers invade the rest of the country I prefer to stay at home and enjoy the delicious weather. The [...]
