There are few things as depressing as a blue sky for a photographer . Where I live in the Lowveld the scenery is above average, but unfortunately the climate lends itself to maybe 100 cloudy days per year. So when I woke up this morning and saw cirrus clouds streaking across a deep blue sky I hoped to get a decent picture of anything sometime during the day.
This fig tree stands close to our home. Pristine bushveld has been obliterated to make way for profitable agriculture. A sad but undeniable death knell for the Lowveld bush. It will only stop once there is nothing left to bulldoze over. This tree has somehow avoided the chop up until now. How, I don’t know. Maybe it is its size, shape or age.
A blocked water pipe from the canal have had us digging now for close to two weeks to find the problem. The roots from another fig tree higher up the road made its way into the pipe and caused the blockage. This pipe also runs close to the pictured tree. Its days might therefore be numbered…
Instead of using a wide angle lens I stitched eight portrait photos together with a 24mm lens to make this panorama.
Another pano close by in colour of Likweti Estate that was once a private reserve but will now soon be covered by Macadamias.
EJ
