Cape Town at full moon
Cape Town at full moon. Please click image for larger view. The image print is available for sale. Please email jurgen@jurgen-photo.com for more information.
Looking
I have been fascinated by a particular view for the last week. One of Cape Town’s highways has a beautiful view over the harbor. Whenever I returned from town this week, I stopped to take pictures from a particular point. Today, I experimented a with HDR photography. HDR stands for high dynamic range, which means [...]
Landscape in Winter
I went for a run today along Rhodes Memorial. The light was just amazing. The light was that great that I decided to photograph some landscapes after the run. My favorite shot of the day is this shot. I hope you like it as much as I do. Please click on the image for a [...]
My first digital camera was a Panasonic DMC LC-1
My first digital camera was a Panasonic DMC LC-1, the twin to the Leica Digilux 2. When I bought, I loved the simplicity and classic setup of the camera. Aperture is changed on the lens and shutter speed on camera top with a mechanical dial. Interesting features of the camera are the slightly bigger sensor [...]
Running
Every year on the Saturday before Easter, we have the Two Oceans Marathon happening in Cape Town. The name is misleading, as it is actually an ultra marathon with a distance of 56km. I ran the ultra a couple of years ago and aim to run it again next year. Part of the preparation is [...]
Food Photography – Working Girl's Pasta
During my visit to Germany, my parents gave us as a present a new cooking knife. I love cooking, almost as much as photographing. In both, you can create with some simple ingredients something really nice or … not. Over the years, I became a great fan of Jamie Oliver’s cooking. Hardly any of his [...]
Food Photography – Working Girl’s Pasta
During my visit to Germany, my parents gave us as a present a new cooking knife. I love cooking, almost as much as photographing. In both, you can create with some simple ingredients something really nice or … not. Over the years, I became a great fan of Jamie Oliver’s cooking. Hardly any of his [...]
Travelling
I am currently sitting at Amsterdam airport and wait for my connecting flight back to Cape Town. It’s been the first time in a long time that I travelled back to Europe and my hometown, Aachen in Germany. It was a short trip for a special occasion, my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary. There have been [...]
Actress Headshots
Last week I head the pleasure of photographing the young actress Ntsebo Lerotholi. Here are some of the results from the session. Ntsebo’s Headshots – Images by Jurgen Banda-Hansmann Looking for a headshot or portrait photographer? Please contact me.
3 Things to Consider for Your Profile Picture
I am a firm believer in social networking and general business networking. Just a few days ago, I was able to connect with old school friends, I haven’t seen in twenty years via Facebook. Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook connect me with people, I would not have met any other way. It is simply amazing! There [...]
Picture Of The Day – 11 February 2010
I wanted to do this shot for a while. This morning, I got up early enough and instead of making coffee first, I took pictures. Clicking on the image, will open a slideshow with more images from the Magical Light gallery. Leave a comment, with what you think about the picture. Follow me on Twitter [...]
What's New At Jürgen's Photography This Year?
At the beginning of January, I wrote a post called: “Whats’s coming in 2010?” It was a overview of what changed in 2009 and some general ideas, on what I have planned for 2010. Since I started Jürgen’s Photography, I always had the question in my mind on how I can make the experience of [...]
What’s New At Jürgen’s Photography This Year?
At the beginning of January, I wrote a post called: “Whats’s coming in 2010?” It was a overview of what changed in 2009 and some general ideas, on what I have planned for 2010. Since I started Jürgen’s Photography, I always had the question in my mind on how I can make the experience of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Magical Light
It seems this the part of the time where everyone comes up with top 10 lists of the year. I don’t really have a top 10 list, but some pictures that I took that I really like. All of these pictures are my private work and were not shot as part of an assignment. These [...]
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 [...]
Thinking outside the box
For a while now, I have been following Tim Ferriss on his blog, after reading his book The 4-Hour Work Week. The title of the book alone is thought provoking and sounds for me crazy enough to read it. What I learnt so far from the book is that you can change things radically and [...]
