Since I bought my shinny new Camera about a month ago, I have been absolutely itching to find myself a tripod and do some night shots. Then a good friend of mine, Chris Thomas took this amazing photo of Soccer City the night before the game:
The day before the World Cup Final, Soccer City in all is glory.
I just know I had to get out at night and have a bash at it. Sadly tripods are rather expensive if you want one that is even halfway decent, so alas I was stuck!
But as usual Cape Town came to the rescue! I twisted a friend who had a tripods arm to come out with me, on what turned out to be a freezing cold CT night, and we drove up to the top of signal hill and took a couple of long exposure pics as well as played around a bit with alternate lighting! Here are the results.
The Cape Town stadium, not exactly in all its glory, definitely gonna go back to take a pic on a game night!
The loading dock, closed up and quiet for the night.
Highway Movement
A long exposure pic with a friend firing the flash on her camera to light up the bike.
The last one in that set is most definitely my favorite! I love the fact that you can’t even see Jo standing right in front of the camera with her camera to help light up the bike!
From Signal Hill we also got a bit of a peak at the new Big Wheel down by the waterfront, so we decided to extend our trip a little and head past there, what a great idea! Something with that many lights on it can only look cool in a night time photo!
The movement of the light really makes this picture
So I have to say that was a rather constructive evening considering Varsity hasn’t even started yet!
P.S. Remember folks you can see larger images just by clicking on the little baby ones!
Generic Greeting
So you’re back at Varsity and you are seeing friends that you haven’t spoken to in ages, its great!
You’re floating on a high, strutting across Plaza like it nobodies business(it probably isn’t… Also, stop strutting, it looks weird) when suddenly you get blindsided by and “acquaintance”! Oh no! What will you talk about? Panic!
But never fear because I am here with this handy bit of small talk to get you through even the toughest of awkward encounters:
Random Person: Hey Richard! How are you? (How do they always remember my name?!)
Me(or you): Hey [Insert name, or if name is in doubt, "dude" or "you"], great thanks and yourself?
Random Person: I’m just aaaamazing, had such and amazing holiday, I went to [amazing sounding place that you can't even dream of going to] with [person you've never met], was so much fun and we where practically [drunk, high or suntanning depending on the person] the whole time! How was yours?
Me: Thats great, I’ve always wanted to goto [place]. I didn’t do much, just [boring in comparison thing that you did].
Random Person: That’s a pity, you should have come to [place] (wtf, I barely even know you!)
Me: Maybe next time (insert laughter here). So, did you goto any World Cup games?
Me: Listen [person] I’ve goto run, my lecture is starting soon (points at watch), was great chatting to you!
Random Person: OMG ya! I really want to speak to you soon because your smalltalk skills are so amazing (they may not actually say this, but yo can bet they are thinking it!)
So there we go folks, stick to this script and you’l be able to cruise past every shallow greeting leaving only a wake of awesomeness behind you!