Right, here I am...

...directly at Capetowns Airport!

You think you missed something? No, you don't! I couldn't post for to days because of internet trouble and being totally busy with watching SA's worldcup crazyness. Ok, King Soccer has taken over, no one's watching any mountainbike footage anymore ;) (if that wasn't always so...) anyways, I'll try to find a goob blend between both of them:


Your fellow author on his way to Capetown. No, I'm not driving I'm holding a camera. Would be the wrong side for a driver seat in that country. Please mind the beard - it took me two weeks to grow it!

Just normal live on Capetowns Green Market Square. What a great place to go and inhale all the brio and joy of this great city.

I haven't had a good day shooting yesterday. Always too far on the left and I haven't had a lucky forefinger as well. I hate these days. And I hate them even more, when an important shooting is on the schedule. In the end it turned that I could use the one or the other - lucky me ;) (Ok, basically you can't get it wrong in these surroundings...)

Well, in the end I want to say thank you to Kai and his Dad Reinhold (the peeps I used to call "Customers" and now call "Friends") - I had a blast and really enjoyed South Africa! I wish you all the best with your business and really, really hope you guys gonna make it! And I'm closing this with a very famous Austrian Saying:

I'll be back!

Moving pictures...

What a busy day today! Video is so much work in post-processing than still imaging! A whole day's work goes into nothing more than 2 minutes of experimental stuff. I guess somehow I know why the moving pictures are not my thing. Well, I did it anyways. Some might ask what song this is - it's by Spinerette but honestly I can't remember the title ;)

Tomorrow we are leaving Oudtshoorn and going back to Capetown. Maybe there will be al little tourist-footage on the blog - no biking for sure though. You'll find out...

Time is flying by...

...and today we recognized that the last days in Oudtshoorn are going by and it's still so much to see. I also want to finish the small video-clip I started, so this will be on tomorrow. Today we drove to the Red Stone Hills which are a kind of sand-stone formation (you can see 'em in the background) not that far from our base-camp. Actually we didn't really get what we wanted first, but in the end it turned out that this was the better solution. You can't get really close to those sand stone formations, which is acceptable due to nature conservation. The photos aren't the ones we initially wanted, but still quite good I suppose. (Don't wanna self-praise too much...)

Is that the first uphill-pic of the trip? I guess so. I quite like it because of the shadow-light situation. What I don't like, is the noise, especially in red-tones. I'll blame it on the D300s which I had chosen for that shot. Well, in the end it's to blame on me, then, ha? ;) ISO is 500.

I always love silhouette-shots. That one was a good reward for a work-day!  

Finally....

...we passed by at Knyznar one of the most amazing places I've ever seen. What a coast. What a trail.

Speechless. Even me. ;)

Someone who eats, drinks and sleeps so well...

... has to deliver some work as well. Ok, here we go!

(Note to myself: Meanwhile it's Sat, 040610)

And some "proper" work (as my Mum would say) as well ;)

In between those to pics? Well, nothing special. Just effed-up a Land Rover in a waterhole and tried for something like 4 hours to get it out. Got help by bike (remember, no cell phone?) and pulled him out late in the evening (actually it was eight. but it's getting dark at six...) Rest of the story? Secret...

Who travels a lot has much to tell!

 Well, first and almost sorry for the long-time no-post.  Let's start with Friday, 04rd of July.

The reason is, that we made a longer road-trip and found ourselves in a barely tapped area. Well, that's only true for cell phone reception and internet connection. "In real life" (as IT-freaks would say) this strip of country has everything you need to make you happy. Trails, water, beautiful views and from time to time (actually a lot of time) you run into some super-friendly people supplying you with food and hospitality. 'nough said - let the pictures talk.

Hey, you smartypants GPS-thingie, we already knew that...

Arriving at the Outeniqa Trout Lodge we suddenly found ourselves in a (at least) five-star open-air restaurant. Roasted nuts and trout paté - yummy! A perfect starter for the traditional South African barbeque, which is called braai...

After being totally stuffed we fell asleep in one of these...

One might say, this isn't exactly African culture and he might be right. But who cares, it's super-cozy and I slept like a baby!

And especially not in south-african outback! Well, it's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it! So today I finally managed to get a sensor cleaning kit from Kloppers in George. Great store, by the way, if you ever get there. Ok, I paid about 900,- SAR for 2 aircans, a vacuum kit and 4 swipes which is something like 90,- EUR. Because green-clean stuff is made in Austria I thought the price might be horrendous, but I was thoroughly surprised when i found that the difference is just a few Euros. 

This....

Made me do this...

I know, there are better before/after shots, but I'm really satisfied. Especially under those circumstances.

I'll sure pass my camera to NPS right when I come home. I promise!