Photohunt: Self

You want a photo of me? (Taken by Bradley early this morning)

OK then, I'll try do it myself... yuk!

Then Bradley tried with the help of the tripod... and finally I'm happy :)

Oh and BTW... this was taken with my new toy! The Canon 350D! All the photos from now on will be take with my new SLR :)

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Skywatch Friday - Broken windmills and blue skies

Taken in the middle of Fourways north of Jo'burg. As for the sky... it was a typical winter's day in Gauteng today.

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Going home

Taken on the way home on Tuesday evening (I didn't have time to take photos today... I know... I'm bad... it's the third day I've missed in one year!)
I thought I'd do a follow up on my post from last week all about my trip to work. There aren't many to show you because it got quite dark, and it's very difficult to take shots in the half light while you're driving LOL!

Maybe the construction workers aren't required to spell?

Bus stop

Power

Looking for business

Wet roads

Orange sky

Cross on a hill

Wordless Wednesday - Driving rain

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Macro of a peach rose

Taken in my mom's house this evening.

Sunset and power lines

Taken on the way home from work today.



It's not the best photo I've ever taken of the sunset, but I kinda ran out of time today again.
I was actually thinking that it's time for more macro flower shots again. I haven't done any in a while. I'll see what I can do about that tomorrow. Oooh, maybe I'll try out my new toy!

Weekly Winners 18 May - 24 May

I'm deviating from my normal theme this week. My post is in 2 parts.

Part 1: Taken at a playdate yesterday morning...

Wide eyes

Laughter in the ball pit

Little fist

Laughter

Part 2:
The rest of my Weekly Winners is dedicated to the people who have lost their lives, and the families that have been displaced in the Xenophobia attacks in my hometown this week.

I say hometown, because Johannesburg is my home and I am a South African citizen, but actually, I'm also an immigrant. I was born in Zimbabwe.

I took these photos yesterday morning on the way home from the playdate. I chose these hawkers as my subjects because the majority, if not all of them are immigrants. They're spending their days trying to eek out a meagre wage selling things on the streets, and then spending their nights at the moment either scared in their homes or in tents at the police stations that are sheltering many of them at the moment.
There were a lot less street sellers around yesterday than there normally are.

I was chatting to my brother, who works as a paramedic on the East Rand, and he was saying that last weekend at the one police station there were 3000 people trying to find shelter.

This situation is heartbreaking.

Sidewalk art

Selling a t-shirt

Doing braids under a tree

Selling grass

Waiting for passengers

So, think of them tonight especially. It's been raining today and very cold, and tonight the weather is particularly freezing.
One of the ladies on a mother's forum I'm a member of wrote this yesterday...
" DH called me from the station this morning, he says he cant believe how many people are there seeking refuge. He said there were 6 month old babies on pieces of cardboard out in the courtyard. Its freezing!"

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Photohunt: Shoes

I bought Connor his first set of crocs last weekend, and he looks so cute in them. So, this theme was perfect for me :) to show off his crocs and show you just how busy he is!

"These shoes were made for..."

A dirty croc on the jumping castle

Playing on the jumping castle at Mugg and Bean in Broadacres this morning

Vrooom

And then at home...
Sweeping the paving

Swinging

In the tunnel

Sliding

Running in the garden

"I picked you a flower"

The flower

Basically, it was a typical day in the life of a toddler!

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Studying a student

Elaine is doing her honours this year, and is spending many hours at this desk. She is particularly stressed at the moment with exams coming up; and an assignment on the 2010 Soccer World Cup which is due in the next 2 weeks.
She'll fly through them though ;), my sister is very bright.
Note the "chair" - she's taken to using the exercise ball as a chair. Very good idea actually, I should do that while I'm blogging!

Skywatch Friday - Cranes at dusk

I took this from the balcony outside the office this evening. Yes, it's an evening shot again. I've been so busy at work lately, and haven't been at home during daylight this week really.

Even though I like the colours in the sky at the moment, it's disturbing that the colours are mostly due to the smog in the city!

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Gone!

This is what Connor does when something has "gone". Cutie :)

I just didn't have time to post yesterday, but I was doing a photo related thing... I finally went to a camera club... with Fiona!! And I think I'm going to join it. I'm sure I'll learn a lot. And after looking at the standard of some of the photos, my photos should be criticised too much in the lower rankings ('cos you start right at the bottom of the pile). Hee hee! I'll keep you all posted.

Going to work

Sweets and Angel has posts last week showing photos of their trips to work, and I've decided to do the same thing. I thought it was going to be easy! Well, it ended up being more tricky than I thought to take relatively ok'ish photos from the moving car! I should have probably made sure that my windows were clean too :)
Just as well there were no cops in sight ;)

They're in no particular order.

JHB CBD on the horison and Northcliff Hill


The FNB building in Fairlands... the reason for the increase in traffic. The building has finally finished (I posted about it before), and there are a few thousand more people on the roads in the area as a result.


Graffiti'd stop sign


Valley of pylons


View in the side mirror


Old Water Tower


Swinging in the park. Notice the lack of green!


Leaf sweeper. This poor guys sweeps the leaves from this car park every morning... what a thankless job!


Street in Sandton CBD


Informal garden. This garden is grown by one of the street sellers that I posted about before.


Street seller doing business early this morning


High walls... a common sight around JHB!


And finally, the empty parkade where I park my car.

So, as you can see, it's not riveting stuff, but LOL, that'll all I got for you today folks :)
I'll do my trip home next week. I don't go on the same roads on the way home, so the photos will be vastly different.