So I’ve added some new photos to Flickr, that I took on my phone. I know the sunset photos in Cape Town are overdone, but I never get over how amazing the evenings are.

Click here for a slideshow gallery of the latest photos, taken on a Blackberry Bold 9700.

For those interested in photography, you can get Adobe Lightroom 3 for $199, giving you a $100 saving. The offer ends tomorrow though.

Lightroom 3 is great for doing most of your photo adjustments, resizing and organising. Obviously Photoshop CS5 is more advanced, but also comes in at a more advanced price. Lightroom 3 is a great start though.

Click here to get Lightroom 3 for $199.

I still have loads of old rolls of film lying about, but it’s so hard to share with people because everyone these days wants a digital copy. I still think that getting photos printed is awesome, it’s useless to have thousands of photos that just sit on your computer. But in the interests of sharing, and also safely storing your photos, you can now make all your 35mm film photos switch to digital. Rad!

It takes 4 seconds to convert each photo and the machine has a cool little digital screen. You don’t even need a computer to work it, it saves it right onto an SD card. Sickie woo!

For more on this product, visit Stopshop.co.za

So the Nikon D7000 has come in and is a higher spec than the D90 so you can probably expect a few sales coming up on the D90, which is an awesome camera. And this is a decent price!

Available now at Makro

If you’re interested in what a professional photographer think of the Nikon D90, Chase Jarvis tests it out here:

Pretty cool stuff!

Click here for more images taken with the Nikon D90 with Chase Jarvis and friends.

Lately I’m moving away from writing, and more into photography. I think combining the two is awesome, but photography on it’s own is really powerful, even more so then some writing. That’s the new direction I want to take SLXS is, for no other reason than the fact that I always want to do what inspires me. I don’t want to do what other people tell me to do, or what is going to make my blog popular, I just want to do what makes me happy and what makes me feel good. At the moment photography is that. Phone photgraphy is something I’m really interested in, as phones allow you to capture images where a regular camera just seems too intrusive. I’m using a Blackberry and the camera isn’t too good, and you also don’t get access to the cool apps on the iPhone, but I can play with effects on online photo editors as well as Photoshop. Expect more visuals on SLXS from now on. Hopefully cool ones. No necessarily the best from a technical point of view, but I’ll try capture some cool images.

On that note, iPhone photography has taken off around the world, with books being printed just using iPhone pictures, to people displaying entire galleries on Flickr using iPhone photos. One such photographer is Sion Fullana from New York City. I always feel that a moment is captured not with the best camera or the correct settings, but just by the fact that you were there in that moment to capture it. Like this:

Click here for Sion’s Flickr gallery.

I’m pretty much always in awe of Cape Town and I was leaving Woolworths yesterday, in fact I had just got back into my car and was mesmerised by the sunlight filtering down through the clouds and landing on Cape Town. Now I take a lot of photos on my Blackberry but yesterday was just something else. So I took two photos from in my car, and about an hour later I was on Facebook when I saw a status update from Gordon:

“If you’re in Cape Town, do yourself a favour and look outside and revel in the beauty”

The comments below that were talking about the exact thing I had seen. Then Caterina posted this photo:

And here are my two photos, taken on my Blackberry:

Which just goes to show.

The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You.

And it also shows what an amazing place we live in, where people are generally amazed by these sorts of things…you just never tire of it. I hope you all saw it yesterday!