Kite surfers at Bloubergstrand
Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town and Table Mountain has been on our travel list for as long as we've had a travel list and so we decided to bite the bullet and go for my 50th. I was just getting back into photography but had been struggling with my Canon 20D and was hanging on for the new 7DII, which took forever to get released and only came out after our trip. After much deliberating and the final word from Mrs R (just buy the bloody thing!) I ended up with the 5DIII instead... lucky me!
Now, a place like Cape Town is not the best strategy to test out a brand new camera like the 5D as you can't easily go back and reshoot when you don't know it's full capabilities. However, the ever resourceful Mrs R had secretly pre-booked a half day photography course for us with a local professional photographer named James Gradwell.
This is one of the locations he took us to. Bloubergstrand is a suburb of Cape Town along the shores of Table Bay and about 15km due north of the city centre. We were hoping for the classic sunset shot over table mountain but the conditions weren't in our favour, however, these kite surfers more than made up for it. Although, ideal for kites, tripods don't fare too well in these conditions... one of many lessons learnt that day!
Kite surfers at Bloubergstrand
Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town and Table Mountain has been on our travel list for as long as we've had a travel list and so we decided to bite the bullet and go for my 50th. I was just getting back into photography but had been struggling with my Canon 20D and was hanging on for the new 7DII, which took forever to get released and only came out after our trip. After much deliberating and the final word from Mrs R (just buy the bloody thing!) I ended up with the 5DIII instead... lucky me!
Now, a place like Cape Town is not the best strategy to test out a brand new camera like the 5D as you can't easily go back and reshoot when you don't know it's full capabilities. However, the ever resourceful Mrs R had secretly pre-booked a half day photography course for us with a local professional photographer named James Gradwell.
This is one of the locations he took us to. Bloubergstrand is a suburb of Cape Town along the shores of Table Bay and about 15km due north of the city centre. We were hoping for the classic sunset shot over table mountain but the conditions weren't in our favour, however, these kite surfers more than made up for it. Although, ideal for kites, tripods don't fare too well in these conditions... one of many lessons learnt that day!