Attie Heunis's Journey

The ramblings of a Caucasian African American

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Originally from South Africa’s magnificent Eastern Cape, my family and I now reside in Pennsylvania in the United States. To earn my keep I’m an executive for a multinational company in the Healthcare sector. I’m also a serious amateur photographer. Pro-environmental and conservation views.

Category: Photography

  • Oscar: Die nuutste lid van die familie

    Hier is die 1ste foto van Oscar (amptelike naam Oz of Aquador). Hy is ‘n opregte (met pampiere) Duitse Herdershond. Hy is geteel in Port Elizabeth en is gebore op die 4de April 2008 (dit maak hom amper 4 maande oud). Sover is ek baie beïndruk met sy geaardheid; ek dink hy gaan ‘n goeie…

  • Bathurst Show 2008

    Yesterday was the last day of the 2008 Bathurst Show. This year the show was a 100 years old. We took Elke (1½) and we met my father and my brother-in-law and his son, Gustav (2½), and his parents. The kids loved it! They “drove” some impressive equipment and checked the engines and kicked a tyre…

  • 1.5m Cape Cobra in Riversbend

    On Friday I took Elke to our new house to take photos. I got out of the car and walked around to her side. As I was about to open the door I heard a “slithering” movement. In that instant – before I could even turn around to look – I knew from the sound…

  • Kruger National Park visit

    Recently our friends from Germany, Dr. Carsten Holtmann & Anke Plog, visited us. When they visited us in England I kept on (sometimes I think too much) about Africa’s wilderness. Carsten specifically showed a real interest in the topic so I decided to take him to Kruger National Park. The Kruger and the Kalahari Gemsbok…

  • My Opel Meriva

    I was playing around with my camera when I took this photograph of my car, an Opel Meriva 1.7 CDTi. I love the car – it had some problems in the beginning but Kenrich Delta sorted it out – now it is good on fuel, comfortable, fast, has all the features you need and I…

  • Middle Beach pools

    Friday was spring tide so yesterday at low tide we went to Middle Beach in Kenton to mess around in the rock pools. There is a massive pool there (pictured here) that is just wonderful to swim in. The water was very nice and it was hot enough so I couldn’t resist getting in. I…

  • Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 is out!

    Today when starting Adobe Photoshop Lightroom was told that Lightroom 1.1 was available for download (at the Lightroom website). Being the technofile that I am I downloaded and installed instantly. Install is painless. By reading the release notes I was wondering if there was going to be much different because they make it sound like…

  • The Pink Lady

    Yesterday my sister, her husband, Lené and I took the kids to Tamjazi, a petting zoo/coffee shop outside of Alexandria for some R&R. Here Elke is just about 9 months old. I’m proud to say that the frown on her face was inhereted from me!

  • Digital cameras to benefit from new colour-filter

    Kodak has anounced a new colour filter that is supposed to be twice as sensitive to light. This means is that you will be able to take great photos in even darker conditions than you can presently. You can go pretty dark as itáis, butátypically you need to either keep the shutter open for longer…

  • Cannon Rocks wreck

    .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Cannon Rocks wreck, originally uploaded by Attie Heunis. This wreck is not that old actually. My father tried to salvage the anchor, but there were legal issues!