Thursday, October 8, 2009

Rain Mist cold weather doesn't stop the work on the stadium for long

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I love the look of the stadium here ....when it was really raining hard, there was not much activity hanging on to  the stadium, but the "rock climbers " as I call them were doggedly working on







Notice the colour of the roof aqua marine and the stadium looks very grey in the rain



On my way past this evening at 6.30 PM
I imagine the PVC mesh dries out quite fast and should be pretty clean now that its been bucketing down today

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

New Green Point Stadium as seen at different times of the day


03.36 PM



04.17 PM



04.58 PM



To give an idea of the activity I cropped this image
there are 2 and a half strips of PVC Mesh on this side (7 on the other side) which is just out of sight around the corner


06.25 PM
Its during sunset but the sun keeps hiding behind clouds here it just came out the sky is colouring red behind me over the Atlantic ocean and casts a dark glow on the stadium


06.29 PM
This is what it looks like behind me on Siganl Hill and Lions Head is almost hidden by the clouds
The tall building is the Ritz hotel



06.30 PM
This image has not been edited but it is cropped
the sun is hiding and the facade looks dull
You can see through the material


06.39 Image has not been edited


06.44 PM


06.48 PM
This is what is happening behind my back
Signal Hill in the clouds

Time to go home...

Monday, October 5, 2009

Pezula Resort Hotel in Knysna where the French Soccer team will stay in 2010



Knysna was named as one of the Top 100 Destinations in the World and one of the Top 25 in Africa by the Trip Advisor




View over the estuary of Knysna



Sunday, October 4, 2009

Sanding and painting the new Green Point Stadium in Cape Town




I am a few days away from Cape Town and will not be able to show Stadium updates till Monday
but tomorrow I will show some shots from  Pezula Resort Hotel in Knysna where the French team will be staying in 2010





The shots are from a couple of days ago especially in the top image you can see the metal needs a lick of paint

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Green Point Stadium and Cape Town as seen from Tafelberg Road




The smoke of the Noon gun, Robben Island,  Cape Town new  Green Point Stadium and the Port of Cape Town








Views toward Milnerton and beyond

Friday, October 2, 2009

New 2010 Green Point Stadium as seen from Milnerton Beach on a windy afternoon.


The wind was so strong I could hardly stand still,I and my camera were eating sand so I had to beat a hasty retreat


Thursday, October 1, 2009

Images of the dusty World Cup Green Point Stadium silver mesh facade


Click on images to see large
We are experiencing extremely strong gusts of wind at the moment to give you an idea of the dust I took this shot a few hours ago, you can clearly see the dust being kicked up, its one of the reasons the mesh facade got dirty so quickly, the other reasons is the heavy trucks racing up and down the dirt road near the stadium I can often not shoot because of all the dust in the air.












This shot is from a strip which had just been attached



Remember the 2 sheets hiding something ?
The space to the right of the sheet is where the other one was
They were doing the staircases
Click on image to see the amazing details even though I shot it all the way from my home

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

New Green Point Stadium on a sunny sunday afternoon .


The Beauty and the Beast



The backside or North side, which I cant see from my house.



They have called it a pot, a bowl, a hat ...and of course don't forget ...a white elephant....well I agree from this side.....hmmm.....pretty it is not ...



The wind was blasting me here, it was 19.00 PM and the sun was going down, a cold evening by the time I came home I was frozen to the bone


North West side of the stadium




This evening September 29 to see the whole photo click
here
the facade lit up from behind
and many more to come !

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Un-processed, un-edited, straight from the camera images of the Green Point Stadium



It is important to get the colour right of the facade on the images of the mesh close ups I post here.
Obviously its no good to show you the facade in un-realistic colours. The interesting fact about the facade is that it takes on different colours and changes depending on the time of the day, the colour is also affected by the weather, the colour of the sky and also what angle it is viewed from It simply never looks the same

So for your interest I posted the same image (above) twice taken on sept 24 at 18.00 PM when the sky was ink black and the sun suddenly came out and lit up the stadium. The top edited image is what it looked like in real life, the bottom image is straight from the camera

 I took the shot with my SLR Canon EOS 450D the top image was edited, with my usual settings in Picasa  Contrast Tuning and slight increase of saturation
 I use only 2 programs Picasa and Picnik for the more creative images



All the above images are un-processed so not edited but straight from the camera, they are just cropped
to show the mesh facade only. Click on the image and you will see the date, the time and where I took it from
Unfortunately I had deleted already many of the images of the past 18 days (thast how long they have been working on the mesh facade) especially the ugly grey onces, so I cant show all the days.

(From my point of view, the mesh looks as grey as cement when it is a grey day and in the morning but  it looks like copper or golden when the sun sets but not all the time even during sunset the mesh changes colour and on sunny days it takes on shades of white.
I see it every day, day in day out , it never looks the same, when it is bad weather it looks ...well ...ugh
but when the sun shines it looks nice, even though close up, it is grey-ish brown and actually dirty, especially the older strips but I imagine the rain will wash it clean from time to time  Problem is, it doesn't rain here for 3 month or so in summer ...


Top shot is un edited, the bottom one edited in Picasa
Sunday Sept 27 Shot from the golf course at 18.00 PM
 The facade looks great here, nice and white
 It was a sunny beautiful day and I loved the stadium again... but the previous day on Saturday it was grey and about to rain, I drove up close and was very disappointed, it definitely didn't look nice, the colour wasn't nice and the older strips of mesh were visibly dirty in comparison with the newer ones So there you are, its not a clear cut case .

Monday, September 28, 2009

New 2010 Green Point Stadium given the Lomo treatment


I fell in love again when I was photographing the stadium this afternoon. I had briefly gone off it, but its ok it has its moods ..the facade  doesnt look good at certain times of the day or all weathers, but today it looked great  There is still a good amount to do on this side of the stadium, the foreground is all part of the golf course and what a magnificent golf course it is going to be I am seriously thinking of taking up golf !


It still is a building site but already the lake was so beautiful with the setting sun and the blue sky reflected in it


I used a Picnik treatment called Lomo-ish on all 4 photos, Here you can read what Lomo is


The lights had just been switched on, I like to come back one evening when the lights are on inside the stadium. Unfortunately I need someone to come with me then, after dark it would be too dangerous for me to be there alone.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

A boat trip past the new 2010 Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa



A huge new Green Point Stadium almost complete
Last images taken from the Tigresse on Sept 22/2009

Gorgeous Cape Town with its famous mountains



The Radisson Hotel terrace you can see in front of the stadium which  is where I took these photos from and these too


Signal Hill on the left Lions Head to the right
Far right: The very tall building is the Ritz Hotel


The Green Point Light house which I can see from my house