You gotta be tough!

Blood flies from the mouth of Kale Mbwekally after a blow from eventual winner Deon Coetzee at the Boxing Beat event, Emperors Palace Hein Van Bosch gets a telling blow from eventual winner Sean Santana during the Boxing Beat event. Basil Ray punches the eventual winner, Bull Muravha.

City-wide arson attacks :)

A Johannesburg Emergency Services fire-fighter battles a fire in a paper factory in Benrose, Johannesburg.

A small factory fire generally isn't that exciting to photograph, but todays was great, it's been a while since I've done anything that I consider 'real", so it was nice to be out there doing something again. When I was at the building, I spotted another smoke plume on the horizon, I ran to my car and sped there thinking about the possibilities of city-wide arson attacks, when I got there , some grass cutters has simply taken the easy way out and burnt the grass, I turned right around and drove back to the burning building somewhat upset!

Overtaken

The Swiss A1 car passes the South African car during the South African A1 Grand Prix held at Kyalami. The Swiss car driven by Neel Jani eventually won the race.
It seems that my blog is being "overtaken" by motoring content. That's not on purpose its just the way the news cookie crumbles. Hopefully, I'll soon be involved in something a bit different and a bit more interesting. The A1 Grand Prix was definitely a spectacle, but after seeing the cars come rushing by you at warp speed for the third time and having no idea whose winning, it gets old fast.But, I must admit, it was worth going just to get my eyes on the Ferrari FXX, the racing spec Enzo.

MPH

Jeremy Clarkson, shows Richard Hammond and Sasha Martinengo that he does in-fact have Will Young songs on his iPod after a lighthearted comment about Jeremy's affections for the Pop Idols winner during a press conference in Johannesburg, South Africa ahead of MPH 2009.

I love my job, I reckon its perfect for me, some times I wish it would be a bit more hectic, but that is pretty much out of anybodys control.

One thing I've always said is, that if I could choose any job in the world, it would be Jeremy Clarkson's.

I'd love to be paid loads of money to travel and test drive the best cars in the world, being able to race the Bugatti Veyron across Europe for a truffle, drive a Toyota Hilux to the North Pole, just to see if it can be done, drive a skeleton of a car through Botswana, just cause I can, drive a Rolls Royce into a pool, just cause Keith Moon did it, race a Range Rover against a Challenger tank, join the Royal Marines in a beach landing in a Ford Fiesta ... I could go on.

Yep, I'd take his job any day (And I really hope someone from the BBC reads this ;)

In memory of...

I've always been intrigued by roadside memorials, so much so that I've been photographing them for a few years now. I guess, it could be the fact that as I drive by them, I always think about how somebody died quite violently doing exactly what I'm doing at that moment (driving), and that in a different time, it could have been me or somebody I love involved in that fatal crash.There lies the power of these and why I think that they are important for road safety, way more important and effective than some cop hiding behind a bridge to give you a fine for driving 11 kph over the speed limit.


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