Category Tales from South Africa

Breathe New Life into Faded Memories: The Power of Remini

Found a box of faded memories gathering dust? Faces obscured by a film fog thicker than a mystery novel? Fear not, fellow nostalgia-seekers!

Unveiling Hope: Pandemics Forge a New Path in the Western Cape

Detours to dreams! Cancelled flights launched epic adventures. This post chronicles a pandemic pivot: trading dream destinations for the wild, confusing world of digital nomadism. Swap boardrooms for breathtaking views, ditch resumes for freelance hustles. It’s bumpy, the sunrise from your laptop is no reality. But the journey? Priceless.

Is Luminar AI the Best Photo Editor for You?

It’s the smooth-talking editor that trades algorithms for artistry, handing you a toolbox wrapped in a user-friendly interface with a built-in AI artistry assistant to boot.

With one click, skies behave, shadows soften, and even the dullest snapshot starts humming in high-def poetry.
Templates? Time travel jumping from “meh” to “masterpiece” before your coffee gets to cool.

Bonus, Luminar pirouettes past Adobe’s paywall. No contracts, no claus. Light, colour, and a bit of digital sorcery spun into every frame.

Goodbye to An Old Friend: Sigma 18-250 mm 1;3.5-6.

In Namibia’s embrace, where desert meets ocean’s grace, my friend met its sandy fate — lost in dunes, awash in salt. Farewell, dear Sigma, selfies now grainy, landscapes left to roam alone, becoming one with the metal that shapes the Namib’s dunes.

Navigating Lockdowns: Personal Reflections on Lost Opportunities

Life during pandemic times: A tumultuous blend of constant travel, vanishing job offers, and precariously teetering freelance work. But wait, it’s not all gloom! Sprinkle in a chaos-induced family reunion after 40 years, the stressful soothing of a stressed mum in isolation, and a stubbornly elusive passport from Namibia. Who says variety is dead?

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Photography | Custom-Built Light Box

Ladies and gents, behold the multi-tasking wonder of the art world – the custom-built light box! Perfect for e-commerce and food photography, this fine specimen offers controlled lighting, a changeable foam or wooden background and even color-shifting powers. It’s washable, curve-adjustable, and mobile with removable LED lights. Unfortunately, it couldn’t emigrate during Covid. Bummer!

Amazing Adventures: A Story of Volunteering in South Africa

When life gives you grounded flights, you turn it into a DIY-adventure at a backpacker’s lodge in East London. Between wrestling with feisty toilet brushes and sipping seaside wines, we built lasting connections, grasping breadmaking, fresh seafood-cooking, and coding between sunshine bathings. Lessons in volunteering? Personal growth and lifelong friendships beat posh vacations. Travel smart, stay safe, and when in doubt, plant a vineyard!

The Truth About Luminar Neo vs Adobe Lightroom

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A Free Crypto Mining Rig and Referral Alternative

In the quirky world of 2020 pandemic-era life, my partner and I had to pivot from visas and jobs to volunteering and dabbling in design.

Hunting online work was like seeking a unicorn. Our travel dreams got COVID-cancelled and left in limbo. Then, we navigated treacherous waters of cryptocurrency scams and stumbled on a low-key Bitcoin miner, Computta.

Computta is tantamount to finding a rare Pokémon that brings in pennies, and doesn’t require selling a kidney or your cousin Bob to work!

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