I hope you may see Green Point and the Stadium this beautiful at sunset and by night !

                        When you are in Cape Town, do drive up Signal Hill just before sunset , its a sight you will never forget !

 Three Anchor Bay

See all the new lights along the boulevard, now you can linger a little longer after sunset ...

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I have writtn "irt" in pink , that is the small IRT staion Its not ready yet and the other "IRT Station"

I marked in pink as well, that is the large IRT Station as far as I know it is ready

Here  the same photo with the lights on

                                 

                     

Cape Town Stadium Night photos of last big test event before the World Cup starts

April 10

And today (Sunday) it was business as usual

they took part of a PVC facade strip off the West side and a whole strip off the East side

The facade is a never ending job it seems ...

What the Cape Town stadium looks like from my home on February 1 2010

Back to blogging a little later then expected,

 since I came back with the flu and am still not recovered

and not strong enough to go outside yet

Hamiltons Rugby club has started to prepare for the 2010 CT Tens.

I took this on Jan 18 the night before I left for Egypt

all 360 spotlights of the "Ring of fire" were blazing away,

A rarity nowadays, since  most nights the stadium is quite dark  

The road to the World Cup 2010 Cape Town Stadium

The beautiful PTFE-coated silver mesh glass fabric (Hightex) lit up at night

Main Entrance

Cape Town Stadium A rose coloured bowl at night

Misty aerial night shot of new World Cup Stadium in Cape Town from Table Mountain

It was 7.30  pm by the time I was on Table Mountain

 It was cloudy and grey the city was lying in a haze

but  I was there to shoot the lights so wasn't that fazed by it, enjoying the view tremendously I always feel so alive when I am up there :) but by the time it was dark to my dismay it started drizzling as well,

however it did give an eery feeling to my photos ...

by the time I was ready shooting it was 9 PM

and when I turned to go home this is what Table Mountain looked like

Do not worry I had an armed guard with me yet even so... I walked fast

 to get to my car !

More tomorrow...

From the World Cup 2010 Cape Town Stadium I wish you all a sparkling Christmas

My Christmas gift to you all where ever you are in the world I hope you have a wonderful Christmas

It was difficult to choose the images for this special day

I hope you like these !

Cape Town Stadium the closest I can get without jumping right in

I wonder what the view is like from those seats near the "port holes"

or whatever you call those openings to the outside, it must be amazing

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BTW the green lights in the foreground are really that green
and the reason the roof is not blue like here
is that only the inside lights were on and not the 350 spotlights in the roof which make up the "Ring of fire "

You have no idea how annoyed I get when the photo is blown out like here ..

so anyway the well lit :) white road is the new Granger Bay Boulevard which gives access to the stadium

that is where I stood when I took these shots (the last 2 images)

And this is a close up of the V&A Waterfront
it is very busy now with  tourists from other parts of South Africa and abroad

Note the Aqua Festival sign, you can see the seating area and the floating platform

An aerial view of 2010 World Cup Cape Town Stadium which was recently hit by theft

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Apparently the PVC mesh sheets were torn last weekend during the storm due to theft of aluminum "caps" which attach the PVC sheets to the facade read more here
and the thieving headache here

The stadium is practically ready but not quite...There is still a snag list to attend to + the 4 torn sheets and other small details still need finishing touches The pitch also still needs a few weeks of growth before it's ready for its opening game on January 23 2009 when Ajax Cape Town take on Santos.

This evening while I was shooting on Signal Hill, I met the owner of the cherry picker company (the small serving platforms you see on the right in the photo)

He asked me if I had ever been inside I said No I had not.
He promised me to ask his site manager to contact me via my e mail adress

 Capetown_sa@yahoo.co.uk and he would then take me

 So please keep your fingers crossed for me !
I would love to go up on the roof to shoot !

Also today.... the colours were so beautiful I couldn't resist posting this

Seen many times before but I get never tired of it I hope you do not either isn't it awesome ?

Look at it this way My blog is like a webcamera

except that it is not able to stream :)

I took this shot before I went up Signal Hill this evening

the famous Tablecloth was just forming, it was such a beautiful evening
and such special light

The Beauty of the World Cup Stadium in Green Point, Cape Town at night is spellbinding....

Really ..when they have the lights on like tonight I just can't keep my eyes off it

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It is also a very clear night

and we had the most gorgeous play of light just before sunset

I am sorry these simply dont do it justice

World Cup 2010 Green Point Stadium Flood lights switched on October 22

Scroll down and see how the evening progresses...
Just before 7 oclock

After a hot windless day and a big fire in Milnerton, the air was thick and hazy with smog, as you can see it hanging around the hills in the far distance and so the sunset was a watery affair

The row of lights underneath the roof which had just been switched on

7.10 Pm Its the first time I see these lights on at the edge

as the evening progresses more and more of these edge lights are switched on and I am like a jack in the box

Jumping between my camera and my laptop

Each time when I look up from my editing, I see the stadium and they keep switching on and off different lights which I then try and capture

There were many tourist boats staying close to see the lights

The Catamaran is the Tigresse

7.20 PM

7.34 PM

The light changes fast and the stadium is looking beautiful

7.50 PM

8.01 PM

and then there are suddenly green lights too  at 8.02 PM

Blazing away

9.16 Notice the edge of the roof more and more lights are switched on

10.32

Its now past midnight and it still looks more or less like this

Goodnight from me in Cape Town

Testing the roof "Ring of fire" of the 2010 World Cup Green Point Stadium in Cape Town

The lights were switched on for the first time tonight It is extremely bright

not easy to capture since the middlle part kept being blown out whatever setting I used

A close up click images You can clearly see the seats

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An extract from the Green Point Stadium design report

Trying to avoid the flare of the light

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It is an amazing sight but there is allot of light polution which I thought that wouldn't be the case but then they are not finnished yet

The view to the West last night

Footnote on Oct 21
I am sure allot of Green Point people didn't realise the lights were on

I drove past the back (Atlantic side) at 9 PM and saw nothing out of the ordinary
when I drove up to my house I almost died at seeing the sight of the all lit up stadium
at first I immediately stopped my car to start shooting ... my cam and my tripod are always with me ..
I was so afraid they would switch them off before I was able to capture it :) but for safety reasons I drove home and although
I had not had dinner yet either I dropped everything and started shooting

Of course it then takes a few hours to choose and edit the photos
by the time I went to bed it was well after midnight but the lights were still blazing
When I closed the curtains I saw smoke coming off the roof and thought; OMG its not on fire ?


So again I whipped out my camera to shoot but that was all..... just clouds of smoke from time to time, no flames.Haven't seen or edited those images yet