West Coast (Paternoster, South Africa)

West Coast (Jacobsbaai, South Africa)

West Coast (Langebaan, South Africa)

Cape Town Tourism - Flickr Pic of the Day

Some times one gets a nice surprise out of the blue. Like with this one: Cape Town Tourism chose this image as their "Flickr Pic of the Day". Okay, okay, it was last year (but I did not had a personal blog up and running at that time), and besides, it still is a "lekker" feeling of recognition, even now! :-)

Cape Town Travel / Tourism blog link: (click here)

I am greatly honoured and humbled that Cape Town Tourism considered this image good enough to be mentioned on their blog site that it has motivated me to keep at it, doing what I like the most: taking breath-taking images of beautiful South Africa.

Life = Cloud

Sometimes I feel like a piece of dissipating cloud (using one of my photos as an example :-)). Getting nowhere. Dissolving. No motivation. Lack of dedication. In one's personal life and career.

But at least my life is going into the right direction, with the help of gentle winds (recent life actions, support of some colleagues, friends and family, and above all, a wonderful wife, Anneline). Life is an ever ongoing action of momentum. Nothing stops, everything in one's life push one gently forward.

All I need, occasionally, is to take a break, switch off my mind, get out there somewhere in nature, to relax, to feel the sun on my skin, the air in my hair, the fresh ground under my bare feet, breathing in the nature that is around me.

And refocus, finding that gentle wind, and riding it again, guiding my cloud into a new direction.

Zap! Zappity-zap! Pow! Fzzzt! Pow! Pow! Zappity-bang!

This blog are now speeding up... :-)

One day a chicken will learn how to fly

(sincere apologies to Terry Pratchett for using - and mangling - one of his funny quotes, out of "Small Gods") :-)

Ooh Yess! Fly! Fly, free, free at last! :-)

What say you? Or more importantly, what do you think I am all about with this blog? Firstly, a bit of monologuing about myself, like a vain super hero, if I may :-P

My name is Thys, using the handle “groen hoender” (Afrikaans - a South African language - equivalent for “green chicken”) when I am using the internet. If I sign up somewhere on the internet and my nickname has been taken (very rare!), I then use the English equivalent “green chicken”.

The history of where I got the nickname “groenhoender / greenchicken” was during my early Java developer days at a small company, with co-developers / colleagues / geeks / nerds which have a weird or no sense of humour at all; an incident involving a very tight and bright green T-shirt (with funny cartoonist chicken as logo) which I got from an attractive (but mischievous) close girl-friend; which in turn invoked some risque tongue-in-cheek ribaldry from said colleagues. So, the name got stuck, to my misfortune (or not!) :-)

Ahem, uhm, I digress....now where was I? Ooh yeah.

Why this blog? Simply because I want do. No ifs or buts or whatever. Because I am an amateur photographer, with a keen interest in creativity and 'painting with light'. This blog is my canvas. My express board. And I would like to show some of my works, along with interesting posts. Senseless stuff like how to capture and process this boring photo into this awesome work of art. Or just expressing opinions on whatever that got my attention for longer than 5 minutes.

Just like that. And if you are curious, like me, on how this blog will unfold, well, ladies and germs, please hold on tight for the ride of your life! :-)

I also joke a lot. Even sometimes I don't get it....

Bumping ride!

Please endure this bumping ride with me while I am still fine-tuning this 'muse / photo' blog of mine.

If you have any issues or suggestions, feel free to mention them here.

Btw, all comments are anonymous, so don't forget to add your nick / real name, if you want  :-)

Thanks,

Thys

Welkom! :-)