Picture of the Day 1 February 2010
I went for a run this evening at Muizenberg Beach. On my way back to where I started my run, I observed the surfers and was fascinated. It looked like so much fun. The sun was disappearing behind the mountain and I tried to capture the atmosphere of the evening. This is one of the [...]
12th Cape Town Photography Meetup
It’s time to meet for the 12th Cape Town Photography Meetup. The main platform for the meetup group is on our Facebook Group Page. This is the place, where we will present and discuss the images in the online forum. During our next meetup, we will discuss these and other images in the convenience of [...]
Make Believe
Restaurant Moyo – Images by Jurgen Banda-Hansmann Depending on your connection, it might take a few seconds for the slideshow to load. Some assignments are simply irresistibly fascinating. Moyo, one of the more interesting restaurant chain with an ethnic South African touch hired me to photograph, one of their new restaurants in Cape Town. “Photograph [...]
What's coming in 2010?
2009 was an interesting year for Jürgen’s Photography. The Web site went through some major changes and brought back to it’s core, what it is all about: Good photography. A good friend gave me valuable insight and advice on how the online presentation of Jürgen’s Photography could be improved. I started the year, using a [...]
What’s coming in 2010?
2009 was an interesting year for Jürgen’s Photography. The Web site went through some major changes and brought back to it’s core, what it is all about: Good photography. A good friend gave me valuable insight and advice on how the online presentation of Jürgen’s Photography could be improved. I started the year, using a [...]
11th Cape Town Photo Meetup
On the 9th of January 2010, we will meet for our next Cape Town Photo Meetup. We will start the year with a practical session along Table Mountain. Living in this beautiful part of the world gives us plenty opportunity for landscape and nature photography. It always amazed me in Cape Town, how quickly you [...]
Our 10th Cape Town Photography Meetup
We met on Saturday the 10th time for the Cape Town Photography Meetup. We used a new venue for the discussion meetup, which is closer to town and reachable for everyone from the northern and southern suburbs. Our theme was portraits and we looked at images we took at the 9th meetup and I also [...]
Greenpoint Stadium
Last night after gym, I made a stop at the newly built soccer stadium in Greenpoint, Cape Town. It was not really a planned decision to visit the stadium that night. After I photographed, the soccer field in Mfuleni, the contrast could not have been bigger. The simple construction of tree beams at the soccer [...]
Nikon Festival – A Runner's Day In Cape Town
I spent some time over the last few days to prepare a small movie for the Nikon Festival. The theme was “My day in 140 seconds”. For you Tweeple (Twitter people) the 140 seconds will make sense as we are restricted to 140 characters for our tweets. My idea was to combine things that I [...]
Nikon Festival – A Runner’s Day In Cape Town
I spent some time over the last few days to prepare a small movie for the Nikon Festival. The theme was “My day in 140 seconds”. For you Tweeple (Twitter people) the 140 seconds will make sense as we are restricted to 140 characters for our tweets. My idea was to combine things that I [...]
Mfuleni
I have been working on an assignment in the Mfuleni township (informal settlement) just outside Cape Town over the last few weeks. After I finished today’s work, I passed this shack, with it’s metal sparkle and straight lines. It was one of these occasions, where something looked totally out of place, while being totally in [...]
Review of the 9th Cape Town Photography Meetup
We met today the 9th time for our meetup and the 2nd time for our practical photography meetup. We met today at Red Hill to photograph portraits and headshots with ruins of worker’s homes as backdrop. Andre introduced me to this location a couple of months ago. Thanks for all of you, who participated and [...]
Portraits and headshot for life coach Mariella Norman
Blog – Mariella Norman – Images by Jurgen Banda-Hansmann It may take a few seconds for the slideshow to load. Mariella is a life coach in Cape Town and needed some portraits for her marketing material. Together with two colleagues, she booked me for a photo session in Camps Bay. Anneline Black, owner of Brushstrokes, [...]
Makhaya Ntini
Life is interesting. I don’t understand cricket. They don’t teach cricket at schools in Germany, at least when I grew up there. When I got a call from Psitek, one of my regular corporate clients and Marilize told me that they are organizing an event with Makhaya Ntini, the cricket player, I didn’t know who [...]
6th Cape Town Photography Meetup
Last week we met for the 6th Cape Town Photography Meetup, this time on location in Hout Bay Harbour. We were lucky to have two (actually 3 including a baby) models with us, partners of two of the meetup members. The weather promised to be good and turned out to be a bit more difficult [...]
Some Additions to Jurgen's Photography Website
The website of Jurgen’s Photography received recently a fresh look. There is always something that can be improved. You will now a new section called Portfolio. It makes it easier for you to see, what my photographic style looks like. I added a section for portrait, event and family photography. One of my fun activities, [...]
Some Additions to Jurgen’s Photography Website
The website of Jurgen’s Photography received recently a fresh look. There is always something that can be improved. You will now a new section called Portfolio. It makes it easier for you to see, what my photographic style looks like. I added a section for portrait, event and family photography. One of my fun activities, [...]
6th Cape Town Photography Meetup
Our Next Meetup We will meet for our next meetup on Saturday, 26 September 2009 at 10:00. During the course of the previous meetup, we decided that we will photograph together. Where shall we meet? What is our theme for the morning? Please send me tons of emails with ideas and suggestions. As usual, everyone [...]
Battle of the Bands Part 3
On Wednesday night I was out again to photograph the preliminaries of the Battle of the Bands, Cape Town. Kerry organised a truly diverse lineup once again. This time bands were: Puck, The 357s, Cherry Vynil, Locnville, Fezray and Throatball. Good fun Battle of the Bands Part 3 – Images by Jurgen Banda-Hansmann
5th Monthly Cape Town Photography Meetup
We met on Saturday for the 5th time for the Cape Town Photography Meetup. We welcomed two new visitors to the group and it is so much fun to learn from each other. The experience in the group ranges from the absolute novice to the very experienced photographer. We discussed a lot of good images, [...]
Louw Bubeka – Portrait of a Jazz Musician
Last week I had the opportunity to photograph jazz musician Louw Bubeka on location in Nyanga, Cape Town. We photographed most of the portraits in the streets of Nyanga, which was good fun, but had it’s own challenges.
Learning Photography
How do you learn photography? Where do you get inspiration? Where can you learn new techniques? I love reading and have been learning a lot about photography through reading books. The local library in my hometown had a good collection of high quality photography books. That was a starting point. The more you practice, the [...]
Regus Portraits
The manager of the Regus Center in the southern suburbs of Cape Town asked me for a portrait session on location. She needed the images for a nationwide publication in South Africa. The deadline was within a few days of the call from her. On the day of the shoot, I worked with remote triggered [...]
Cape Town Tourism
Cape Town Tourism is active on Flickr. Remember the ostrich I photographed at Cape Point a few weeks ago? I uploaded the image Flickr and Cape Tourism asked, if I didn’t want to share it in their group. The lady from Cape Tourism also asked me, if I would mind if they would use it [...]
