Paul Jacobson

Category: Photography

  • Broken taps

    We had lunch at my mom’s house on Valentines Day and arrived as a broken tap was being repaired. It looked like an opportunity for some interesting photos and I think they came out quite nicely. I haven’t been spending a lot of time on composition. I think that is going to be a pretty…

  • A small Triumph

    I fell off the wagon a little and didn’t take photos for a couple days, at least not for my pseudo-365 photo thing. I’ve been sitting on a couple photos I took of a Triumph bike that was parked next to my car recently and finally got around to making them look a little prettier:…

  • A weekend away at The Westcliff

    Gina and I won an overnight stay at The Westcliff hotel for Valentines Day. We don’t really celebrate Valentines Day because we have a much more significant day we celebrate, namely our wedding anniversary which is on the 12th of February. That pretty much made the weekend more of an anniversary weekend than a Valentines…

  • Twisted cables

    My theme today is “Twisted Cables” and I got some interesting results. I edited the photos with Picasa (I was going to use Aperture but couldn’t figure out how to do anything). This photo is the one of the ones I like the most from the batch:

  • How the Seattle Coffee Co. (Killarney Mall) ripped me off!

    I’ve been a Seattle Coffee Co. fan for years now. My favourite store is the Hyde Park Corner store followed by Rosebank, Nelson Mandela Square and Killarney Mall stores tied for 2nd. I’ve probably been a Seattle fan since the chain opened in Joburg and I have had pretty much the same thing for most…

  • All are welcome at Mugg & Bean – repost

    My wife and I had breakfast at the Mugg & Bean in Killarney on Sunday.  We overheard an anti-semitic comment from someone we thought was a Mugg & Bean person and I published a blog post about it on my personal blog which I have subsequently updated for reasons that will become clear when you…

  • Manto versus The Sunday Times … round 2

    It occurred to me on Friday night that it would have been a good idea to be in court on Friday morning when the Minister’s lawyers and The Sunday Times’ lawyers argued the matter in the High Court before Judge Mahomed Jajbhay on Friday. The reports of the arguments were interesting, although incomplete (there doesn’t…

  • Maybe our ministers don’t understand what a Constitutional democracy is?

    I wrote about our Communications Minister’s effort to establish more direct control over the appointment of councillors to ICASA which is supposed to be an independent body protected from interference by the Constitution almost a year ago. The problem was (and remains) that the Minister was/is intent on interfering with the governance of ICASA and…