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One year ago

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In grey and miserable conditions much like yesterday and today, this happened:

You may recall that then mayor, Dan Plato, pressed the button a little early and most people missed the big event.

One year on, nothing has been done to the Athlone Power Station site, but it’s amazing to see how normal the cooling tower-free view has become and how little the iconic structures are missed. Except of course by my kids, who remind us each and every time we drive along the N2 that that’s where they used to be.
(The cooling towers, not the kids.)

A few of my photos from that day.

Video from Philip Gibb

Picture admin

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Right, first up, this amazing photo from flickr user assassin00708. I have no idea whether he is actually an assassin, but I did spot this on his photostream and thought it deserved sharing.

Which he describes thus:

Photograph taken on Signal Hill looking over the CBD. Sun setting behind Lions head and signal hill with the fog rolling in from the East. Taken 30mins before sun dissappeared. My first real attempt at HDR.
3 Exposure, Tonemapped.

Thanks to man himself for granting permission to use it.
Check out his other work here.

Secondly,  while we are on a photographic theme, manxscenes.com blog is back and is destined for the blogroll – it may already be there by the time you read this. Go check.
I have long been a fan of Peter Killey’s work. Nothing pretentious, nothing overly complicated, just well composed, good quality images of my “other” homeland.
I’m looking forward to seeing more of the same on his happily resurrected blog.

Quota alps

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Not really – actually a shot across Table Bay from Green Point yesterday, but it could be Österreich!
I was almost tempted to burst into something from The Sound of Music, but I didn’t.

I did mention that this week was going to be a bit hectic. Perhaps you could amuse yourself with my (still uploading) Playing at Green Point Flickr set, with about a million options for Smartphone and Desktop background loveliness.

Seaside Slideshow

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I was going to call this “Gorgeous Green Point”, “Marvelous Mouille Point”, “Thrilling Three Anchor Bay” or “Spectacular Sea Point”.
But that’s just because the boundary lines between those suburbs have always seemed a little vague and disputable to me. As it was, these were taken from the Mouille Point lighthouse (in Green Point) on what was a stunningly beautiful, but dangerously windy Sunday afternoon. I had to hold onto Scoop to stop her being blown into the South Atlantic.
Again.

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More pics here.

The swell wasn’t huge, but the wind was whipping the tops off the waves in the bright sunshine. I haven’t seen wind this strong since the last time the wind was this strong and I can’t remember when that was.