Hermanus

Cape Of Storms

Main Road Hermanus, flooded after a downpour with cars driving through the standing water and lights reflected in the pool. Looking to the North.
Main Road, Hermanus
High Street, Hermanus flooded after the drains were overwhelmed by a heavy downpour with clumps of hail. Looking Southwest
High Street after a downpour
High street looking northwest after a downpour
High Street
The porch on the side of Rossi's Restaurant with hail banked up against the steps.
Hail on the porch of Rossi’s Restaurant
Hail in my garden on Thursday morning.

These are photos I took with my cellphone during a cold front on Wednesday and Thursday last week on 10 and 11 June 2020. It’s been a very long time since we’ve had a proper Cape Winter. And this year promises to be one. Maybe all the lock-downs worldwide have had one good outcome in that our weather patterns are normalizing. The droughts we’ve had the last couple of years have been intense. Even now before the front our dam was on 34%.

Cape Town has long been known by mariners to these waters as the Cape of Storms. I live in a small seaside town called Hermanus, which is ideal for taking wonderful photographs as it is renown for its beauty and land based whale watching.

The dark, empty streets of home….

The dark, empty streets of home…….Only transited by the wind and mist during the #lockdown.

In order for the light to shine so brightly the darkness must be present

Francis Bacon

We have been on lockdown here in South Africa since the end of March. The virus which was a distant threat, had come to our shores and after that things changed very quickly. I took this photo of the empty Main Road where I live on April 4, 2020, a few days into the lockdown.

I took this photo from our driveway of our once busy Main Road which normally has traffic day and night, and in peak season we can not get into the traffic going into town, we have to get into the oncoming lane and go around the Voëlklip Traffic Circle to double back.

There is only one road that runs through our town, and this is it. Freight, goods, trucks, emergency vehicles and many others, all travel this road to their various destinations.

I was very humbled today to receive an email informing me that my image had been chosen to be a part of a online exhibition called, When you can’t find the words. I will include the link below to the image gallery and the video that was made from the images.

lockdown #mainroad #streets #light #Covid-19 #isolation #cepagallery #samscapesphotography

http://www.cepagallery.org/portfolio/when-you-cant-find-the-words/

https://youtu.be/aBCx2vgNnG4

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