Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea

SEA

The daily post

selected SEA for this weeks theme.

The beach closest to us already appeared in this weeks Challenge.

Bloubergstrand is one of the most popular beaches and a visit to Cape Town is not complete if you were not there.  When looking directly towards the Atlantic ocean, Robben Island is visible on the horison

the sun sets just left of Robben Island

Then, looking towards Cape Town, this well known view will never fail to take your breath away

just before sunset

Table Bay from Bloubergstrand

the weekly Photo challenge

FOCUS

This week the challenge from the Daily post is focused on focus. With an ordinary point and shoot camera, it is not always possible to choose the focal point.   (maybe I am also too ignorant to know how to go about it).

But sometimes I manage to get the  focus on the object I want it to  😛

the first try

mission accomplished – after a number of takes

From time to time it goes much better.

o Rosemary

and sometimes I feel quite satisfied with the results

an apple blossom

Festival of Flowers week 11

Flowers always give me great joy that is why I love to participate in this challenge

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

Weekly Photo Challenge: CAREFREE

For this  weekly photo challange I considerd a lot of routes to go.

The image the sculptors wanted to portray might have been that of a relaxed carefree moment in these persons lifes.

In the Centre of stellenbosch South Africa

Darwin in the National Brittish Museum London

 

somewhere in Ghent Belgium

Were they really carefree or just at peace?  Who knows.

Festival of flowers week 9

my contribution to this exiting challenge

We live in the Southern hemisphere and Spring is in the air!
It is still cold and winter is definitely not over yet but I noticed the first tentative signs of spring in my garden.

These are indigenous plants to South Africa

wild pear

blue bonnet

Festival of flowers

Jackie started a new theme,  Festival of Flowers,  that is realy up my alley.  It is already in its 8th week and I discovered it only today!

This is my first contribution

Indiginous to South Africa where the aloes flower mostly in winter