by Linda Doke | 9 Jan 2018 | All Articles, Favourite Photographers
“Great stories happen on the edge of human capabilities and where nature lives in its rawest form.” Sometimes raw talent, creative flair and a whole lot of passion is the combination needed to take the leap into photography. Xavier Briel made that plunge just a...
by Linda Doke | 2 Jan 2018 | All Articles, Favourite Photographers
“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.” anon This is the sixth in the series of interviews I’ve done with trail photographers I’ve met over my years of trail running – lens pros whose work has the magic ability to...
by Linda Doke | 26 Dec 2017 | All Articles, Favourite Photographers
In this, the fifth of my favourite-trail-photographer interviews, I chat to Sven Musica, who fled the frenetic fumes of Johannesburg eight years ago for Nelspruit, Mpumalanga to continue Phonix Capture, the photography business he and his wife Karen had established in...
by Linda Doke | 18 Dec 2017 | All Articles, Favourite Photographers
Great photographs capture moments that are gone forever, impossible to reproduce. There’re a myriad sports photographers out there, clicking away during races, but very few have the raw talent to capture more than just action, to take photos that really grab...
by Linda Doke | 18 Dec 2017 | All Articles, Rockhoppin' Recipes
It’s festive season, and no matter whether you celebrate Christmas or you don’t, this time of year is a great excuse for fruit cake. If, of course, one ever needs an excuse for fruit cake… This recipe is a wonderful one, given to me years ago by a...
by Linda Doke | 12 Dec 2017 | All Articles, Favourite Photographers
There’s no shortage of sports photographers here in South Africa, hungry for that fraction of a second that has IT, that has THE moment, the one we all love, the ultimate sporting moment. But how many of them have the raw talent to capture more than just action, to...
