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HOTSPRING AT WAI-O-TAPU, NEW ZEALAND, FEBRUARY 2004

CAPETOWN WATERFRONT, JANUARY 2004

MARKET STALL MASKS, CAPETOWN, JANUARY 2004

STELLENBOSCH REGION, SOUTH AFRICA, JANUARY 2004 Scroll right down for more pictures

Welcome to ralbdirect.com

This is an entirely personal website, based on my interest in landscape and my love of painting, photography and travel. I hope to learn from those who visit this site as well, so please don't hesitate to mail me.

I have a range of cameras, none of which is very expensive, but accumulated over the years. I find an autofocus SLR with a 28 to 105 zoom lens useful but, with recent technological improvements, a digital compact with a crisp lens is essential for my purposes. If it has a panoramic facility, then so much the better although, in extreme bright light conditions, it is well worth investing in a shade for the LCD screen.

I would like to hear what cameras other people have found, or do find, essential travel companions.

More and more as time passes, I use a camera instead of a sketch book. Cameras are great for capturing images and split seconds; the emotion has to be held inside till back at the easel. Not always easy!

The untitled illustration is of the Yellow Waters Billabong, taken on a trip to Australia's Northern Territory at the end of December 1999. The one of me is taken in front of the Perito Moreno Glacier in Patagonia in November 2000.

Mossy wall and tree at Elibank in the Scottish Borders, May 2003

BLOUBERGSTRAND, CAPETOWN, JANUARY 2004

AUCKLAND, FROM THE DEVONPORT FERRY, FEBRUARY 2004

COROMANDEL VIEWPOINT, NEW ZEALAND, FEBRUARY 2004

FISH STALL, ELECTRIC ROAD MARKET, HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 2004

DARLING HARBOUR, SYDNEY, JANUARY 2004

BRISBANE FROM THE RIVERCAT, FEBRUARY 2004

THE SOUTH AFRICAN FLOWER, THE PROTEA, TAKEN IN JANUARY 2004

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