Playing with weed

I was supposed to join a camera club I’m part of but I couldn’t make it. So I decided to pop outside and get a few weeds for some macro shots. Got a bokeh background on the computer screen and off I went.

Hope you like it.

Jacques le Roux …

Shop now open

Finally got around to opening a shop for images, I will keep populating it as I find more and more images I want to add.

Please have a look and send me some feedback, I would greatly appreciate it.,

Shop can be found at: www.Jacquesle Roux.co.uk

Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh Part II

Second part of the Royal Botanic Gardens.

Photographs by Jacques …

One day road trip, South African style

Continuing the South African theme.

I borrowed a car one day and went for a ride from Paarl over the mountain range using “Du Toits kloof” pass.

I stopped as often as possible and even went trekking through dense vegetation a few times for some photos.

Like this photo of the national flower, the Protea.I stopped at the “Du Toits kloof” tunnel and tried to get a few photos while staying out the traffic’s way.
I was lucky to be using a little Mini Cooper and I thought this looks like a nice advert for the car, one you could see in a car magazine.
Stopped at the “Du Toits kloof” resort. I attended a wedding there a while back.
Then continued onto Worcester. I heard a train and stopped where I found a safe spot. I ran back in time get a few photos of it.
I was a little surprised as this wasn’t just any train it was the Blue train, the most luxuries train in South Africa (don’t let the outside fool you).
I saw some horses in the distance and tried to get a nice photo with them and the mountains in the back drop.
Not the greatest results, I need more work on landscape photos.
Then leaving Worcester behind and onto “Bains Kloof” pass, the next 4 photos are on-route to Bains kloof”.
To my surprise I was back on this same roads a few days later for a 4×4 event but that’s for another day/post.
Stopped in “Bains kloof” and took a walk down to the river. I remember encountering a troop of bubboons 25 years ago in this valley.
Very dangerous animals and not to be taken lightly.

Apologies for the delay in these photos, life sometimes takes priority over art. I will endeavour to get my posts back on track.

 Photographs by Jacques …

 

World of Birds I

While in South Africa we visited the World of Birds. Well worth a visit.
http://www.worldofbirds.org.za/

I had my Canon 1D MK III and Canon EF 24-105 L IS USM with me.
It’ll be a two or three “parter”.

Photographs by Jacques …

The beauty of nature

While visiting South Africa I spent a little time taking photo of flowers in the gardens on top of Paarl mountain.

Photographs by Jacques …

Life in miniature format = Macro play

In the beginning of Spring in 2011 I was bored one afternoon and was looking for something to do. I ended up on the round-about close to my house in the flower bed. I cut open a flower’s one side and found a miniature world rich with life inside.

Photos were taken with a Canon 450D and stock 18-55mm lens.
F13, ISO1600
F8, ISO1600 F5.6, ISO800 F13, ISO1600You can see the size of the flower here as I held it in hand and before cutting the side open to get closer to the little creatures. There is a world out there and we miss so much of it, I really need to do more things like this.
As I was walking to the round-about I took these few photos.

Photographs by Jacques …