Spring day hike

Pentax K5, Tamron 17-50mm, 1/100, f7.1, ISO160

 While hiking on the Pat Busch Private Nature Reserve recently, I snapped a few photographs of what late spring had to offer from ferns....

Pentax K5, Tamron 17-50mm, 1/200, f8, ISO250

 ...to these beautiful blue flowers...

Pentax K5, Tamron 17-50mm, 1/320, f8, ISO160 

...and these wild iris-like flowers growing along the stream...

Pentax K5, Tamron 17-50mm, 1/250, f8, ISO160 

...to the amazing warm texture of this driftwood washed down from the forests...

Pentax K5, Tamron 17-50mm, 1/180, f13, ISO160

...to this gnarled & stunted tree pushing up through a pile of enormous boulders.

BULL !

Pentax K5, Tamron 18-250, 1/250, f10, ISO160

Just another day in the country, watching our Nguni herd grazing under the mountains while the setting sun splashes the valley with colour.  Who needs a fish tank, these Nguni are so beautiful to watch as they move through the grasslands, just like tropical fish swimming in a kelp filled tank.

Nightjar Cottage @ Pat Busch Private Nature Reserve

Pentax K5, Sigma 10-20mm, 1/180, f13, ISO160, flash

It was great photography weather yesterday as the sun wasn't too bright, we had nice blue skies with patches of cumulus clouds lazily drifting passed.  All in all perfect conditions for landscape photography with patches of shadow & sunlight on the hillsides. 
Anyway, I was asked to update the photographs of the exclusive cottages on the Pat Busch Private Nature Reserve website (www.patbusch.co.za).  So I grabbed my K5 and tripod, this is the result of the view from their Nightjar Cottage.