Fiona Meijer-Innes

Like many of my generation who enjoy the art of photography, it was the ability to capture magical moments with the little Instamatic box camera, my sister passed on to me, which sparked an ongoing passion. Over the years the cameras were upgraded and together with extensive travels, the passion and hobby continued. Various photographic excursions and courses have also provided great incentives to always have a camera at hand.

Frustrated as to why landscapes never seemed to capture the scene in the way as I’d seen them at the time, I did a landscape photography course. The take away from this course was profoundly simple, it was not about the camera, lens or scene; it was “take time”. Taking time to understand the scene, the light and how the scene transitions with the shift of light. Of course this meant that I would need to make time if I was to create my ideal landscapes, so in 2018 I took the decision to leave the corporate world and take time to develop my passion.

Now living in Cape Town, with some of the most beautiful scenery in the world at my doorstep, I’ve set myself a couple of landscape projects. Together with my husband we’ve taken the leap share these projects, our images and book on this website. With so many great photographers and images out there, one might say this is an oversaturated space, but I’ve realised that by taking the time to create images with purpose and meaning the space is a little less crowded.

Erik Meijer

My interest in photography started in the early 70’s and the first course I did in photography was portraits. I loved to work with the effect of light on the subject and as it was all black and white in those days, simple lights were all you needed to achieve great results.

Nature photography soon caught my interest and most of the images I took were slides. Today a few prints exist but there are boxes full of slides! It was only in the 90’s visiting Africa for the first time, that the interest in videography was sparked.

A Nikon photographic safari workshop in Chobe, Botswana, brought me back to still images and nature, in particular birds. The close up detail and the weight of a 500mm lens in my hands is a great feeling. Time and patience is required for wildlife photography and whilst I could never sit endlessly waiting for a fish to bite, I can sit for hours at a waterhole or on a river waiting for things to happen and believe me they usually do.

Joining Fiona on her Cape Dawn Project I was introduced to time-lapse photography by a (much younger) friend who joined us for several mornings. After some research, I found the perfect Time-lapse App, OSnap!, for capturing and rendering on the iPhone. For the Cape Dawn Project this was a great way of capturing the whole event as it unraveled each morning.