Tag:South Africa
Since our pilot had been a pilot in the SADF, he preferred to fly his helicopter with the doors off! I thought this was brilliant! Although I had my set belt on to keep me attached to this quivering craft, I had the flexibility to lean out and take photos without having to worry about reflections from or scratches on the plexiglass windows.
In this image we’d taken off from behind his red-roofed house and I was able to take this shot looking to the north, towards Bothaville. Our camp is in the triangle made by the rail-road, the highway and the road that runs in front of the grain silo’s. The settlement in the left mid-ground is the farm workers settlement.
In this case a storm rolls by to our north with lightning forks illuminating the surrounding skies. You can even see a lightning trail within the cloud. Off in the top left corner, the moon attempts to shine through the clouds.
The image below was taken about a month later but the key elements remains the same. In this photo, the sun has dipped below the horizon to camera left but is still illuminating the tops of the clouds. The moon is already bright in the sky.
Here’s another of those wonderful Free State sunsets. A tree, a wind pump, telephone lines and a farm building are silhouetted against a burning orange sky following the setting of the sun while bands of clouds hang ominously in the sky.
I took this image at a place I’ve noted as being Schoonspruit in the Free State, back in December 1988. But it doesn’t appear to be the Schoonspruit that Google Maps or Bing directs you to since I can’t find any grain elevators there. From this camp we recorded the first 3D seismic survey in South Africa – the client seeking to find the best location to sink a new mine shaft. Since I’ve not yet found this location on […]
