The Lost God

Quantum Light

With the right light and at low tide the rock pools on the East London coast line look like this.

Looking at this world so beautiful and different

just creates one desire in me

to go deeper.

Mystical Lavender

May be you will say to me one picture of the lavender is enough !

In that case, I will tell you: look away ! Cause I ain't gonna stop.

I had a strong vision of this lavender, that I have been trying to find!

My vision was to see and capture the inside, the essence of the lavender on film.
And I have taken pictures for weeks. 

To get what I want to see.

Until today when I received what I have been longing to have.

This is my fathers's lavender.
It reminds me of him.
 And I do love this lavender.

A RING OF REFLECTION

This is the most mystical and spiritual photo I have taken last year. And it is for many friends the most loved one of 2009. 

It is special and I see this photo as a gift that I was allowed to have to remind me of that moment.

I took this picture while I was on a holiday at the wild-coast on a walk along the beach during low tide when all the rock formations where exposed.

The small rock-pool shaped by the flowing water contained tiny shell pieces. 

What attracted me was the darker ring outside the rock-pool in the stone. This is not moisture. The stone has a darker color and the shape of the circle perfectly complements the nature of the rock-pool.

Only later when I was bending over to take the photo from above did I see the two amazing rings of light reflection in the water that were in perfect symmetry to each other and everything around them.

How can I be talking so much about a hole in a stone?

Cause it was a moment of enchantment.

And staying enchanted is one of the most important things for me in life.

If the elements come together with shape and structure and light it is magic. And then you have art.

MY OLD CASSUARINA TREE

Of the Cassuarina Tree they say that if you take in a boat with you a piece of it, be it ever so small contrary winds will arise to impede your journey or storms to imperil your life.

They say also that if you stand in its shadow by the light of the full moon you will hear, whispered mysteriously in its dark ramage, the secrets of the future.

These facts have been never disputed; but they say also that when in the wide estuaries the mangrove has in due time reclaimed the swampy land from the water the Cassuarina Tree plants itself and in its turn settles, solidifies and fertilizes the soil till it is ripe for more varied and luxuriant growth; and then having done its work, dies down before the ruthless encroachment of the myriad denizens of the jungle.

(William Somerset Maugham introduction to his novel The Cassuarina Tree)

These are very old Cassuarina Trees in Cape Vidal Nature Reserve in the St.Lucia Wetlands Park in South-Africa close to the border of Mozambique. It was there in that exact place that I have seen them for the first time and I did not know their name. A friend from Brazil told me their beautiful melodic name " Cassuarina ".

Trees are like big brothers and I have always felt they give you energy when you lean with your back against them or sit under them.

They always have their arms wide open for you like this old wild fig tree in a dried up river bed in Umfolozi Game Reserve in South-Africa.

Soon the rivers will fill with water and will run wild but this tree will stand another season and another and another...... with arms wide open for you

Arms wide open giving you shade...