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Shooting panoramas

I seem to be doing a fair bit on panoramas lately. One of the first articles I wrote concerned how to shoot them and I wrote that you had to shoot a series of overlapping pictures. The picture below shows … Continue reading

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Panoramas yet again…

I’ve been fiddling with panoramas again and came up with this one of Durban’s new Moses Mabhida Stadium on the night Nigeria were playing South Korea in the 2010 Soccer World Cup. We were on the old Mutual Building in … Continue reading

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Skies of black,

I seem to be in a major black skies phase at the moment. Continue reading

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New stadium

Here’s one I took on our photo club’s walkabout on Durban beachfront last Saturday. It shows the Moses Mabhida Stadium, which is due for completion for next year’s football world cup. Continue reading

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Streets and stadium

The Mercury of January 14, 2009, reported that a fire had broken out at the Royal hotel the day before, resulting in the evacuation of a hundred guests and staff. The fire apparently broke out on the third floor in … Continue reading

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Is it just me ??

Or does the new Moses Mabhida stadium look like a Tupperware cake taker. See the pictures below this one. I was out and and about on 21 December 2008 and took this picture. The ends of the arch over the … Continue reading

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Snippets from the week

The Mercury of Monday, November 10, 2008 reported, amongst other things, that: The city hall organ, which is unserviceable as reported here, is not going to be fixed. This according to municipal manager Michael Sutcliffe, who said that fixing the … Continue reading

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Stadium bags award

I came across a press release from the Concrete Manufacturers Association that the new stadium had won an award. That’s impressive whether you agree or not on the fact that its being built in the first place. The following is … Continue reading

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Snippets from the week

I had intended to use this blog on a very occasional basis to record noteworthy things happening around the city but I’m starting to feel withdrawal symptoms if I should miss a couple of days, as happened this week when … Continue reading

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No mass action, please

In a previous post, I mentioned the ongoing Jacob Zuma saga. The threat by local ANC branches to picket procedings is serious enough that KZN Judge President Vuka Tshabalala has called on the ANC not to inimidate the courts. The … Continue reading

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