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Cape Town Weddings

By Bianca Gubalke

Cape Town Weddings It’s that time of the year where many couples celebrate their love and add meaning to their words by getting married! One of the Best Cape Town Wedding Venues is of course Monkey Valley Resort in the romantic Noordhoek Valley on the slopes of Chapman’s Peak – however, my favourite hotel...
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Donovan Copley Photo

By Bianca Gubalke

Donovan Copley Photo I love Black & White Portrait Photography and especially this photo I captured of Donovan Copley at the Book Launch of “Brave Green Kids” at the “Crowned Eagle” of Monkey Valley Resort, Noordhoek, South Africa. Click on it to see a larger version.   Donovan Copley Photo Here’s another Photo of...
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Happy Thanksgiving

By Bianca Gubalke

Happy Thanksgiving Happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends from “Free Fun Cards Online”!     Happy Thanksgiving This year’s ‘Happy Thanksgiving Greeting’ features a turkey photo I shot a year ago in “World of Birds” – which is just around the corner from where I live, namely in Hout Bay near Cape Town,...
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Experimenting with Photoshop Filters

By Bianca Gubalke

Experimenting with Photoshop Filters While there’s nothing better than a good picture or photo to start out with, we should regularly be experimenting with Photoshop Filters and Tools to know what they do and to see the effects we can achieve. It’s just like playing the piano every day… so here’s my original lavender...
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About the Social Community

By Bianca Gubalke

About the Social Community When looking at the amount of Social Networks sprouting everywhere – Empire Avenue, Facebook, Twitter to start with – it all seems to be about the Social Community and its interaction, so-called ‘conversation’ and communication. We are talking strictly online here. The question is: how social is a ‘Like’, how...
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Just like me

By Bianca Gubalke

Just like me Free Fun Cards Online presents its new edition for the weekend: Just like me!   Just like me “Just like me” presents a little bat-eared fox photo that I shot in the area… it’s a beautiful insect-eating mammal that I grew up with on the farm in Namibia. Just love their...
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Noordhoek Sunset Photo

By Bianca Gubalke

Noordhoek Sunset Photo In general, people like nice photos and – from what I see on Social Networks – they like good quotes. It may be thoughts they agree to and that they can easily endorse – LIKE -, something funny or witty that might make them laugh, something uplifting for the soul …...
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Brave Green Kids Book Launch

By Bianca Gubalke

Brave Green Kids Book Launch Parenting today… and how to bring up children to face the challenges of a rapidly changing world – this is the topic of  “Brave Green Kids”, the first book written by Judy Sole and presented at yesterday’s Book Launch at the “Crowned Eagle” of Monkey Valley Resort. A golden...
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Hot Water playing at Monkey Valley

By Bianca Gubalke

Hot Water playing at Monkey Valley I wasn’t surprised to see South Africa’s exciting young band “Hot Water” playing at the “Crowned Eagle” at Monkey Valley Resort for the launch of “Brave Green Kids” by Judy Sole… giving the golden sundowner atmosphere a specific touch with their distinctive South African sound – and this...
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Global Autumn/Winter Photoshoot – Behind The Scenes

By Junayd

This is the behind the scenes clips from the Global Clothing Photoshoot, The boys from Global will take you through there day and you can get an insight to all the work that goes into the adverts produced. Posted By Junayd Mohammed (@junayd_...
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African Mirror

By Bianca Gubalke

African Mirror African Mirror – A Reflection of the Times – will soon be out with its latest and absolutely smashing offline edition! The pink cactus photo taken outside their offices in Cape Town, South Africa, yesterday… signals something spectacular to look forward to and definitely: there is a sense of excitement and promise...
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Best Cape Town Christmas Day Lunch

By Bianca Gubalke

Best Cape Town Christmas Day Lunch As I am busy with the finishing touches of the new Monkey Valley Resort website, here’s the Event category that shows you where you can have the Best Cape Town Christmas Day Lunch! Just scroll down and have a look at the information Darren Byrne has put out...
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Good Morning from Noordhoek

By Bianca Gubalke

Good Morning from Noordhoek Good Morning from Noordhoek is an inspiring greeting showing Life in a Day, each day, in Noordhoek, South Africa!   Good Morning from Noordhoek Good Morning from Noordhoek started with heavy rain showers… and I had to go out for most of the day. While being in the area, I...
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Good Morning from Noordhoek

By Bianca Gubalke

Good Morning from Noordhoek Good Morning from Noordhoek is an inspiring greeting showing Life in a Day, each day, in Noordhoek, South Africa!   Good Morning from Noordhoek My “Good Morning from Noordhoek” greeting to you features one of the new plants – a variegated Sunset Safari (leucadendron family) – that I just planted...
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Good Morning from Noordhoek

By Bianca Gubalke

Good Morning from Noordhoek Good Morning from Noordhoek is an inspiring greeting showing Life in a Day, each day, in Noordhoek, South Africa Good Morning from Noordhoek “Good Morning from Noordhoek” is a form of meditation for me – but also an experiment and a strict discipline bearing in mind that each morning a...
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Windows Live Facebook Plugin

By Yorgo Nestoridis

By Yorgo Nestoridis Contents [ hide ] 1 Windows Live Movie Maker for Facebook 1.1 Facebook Plug-in Windows Live Movie Maker for Facebook When starting to use the new Windows Live Pack and namely the Movie Maker you will immediately notice that Microsoft aims to make things simple, focusing on essentials and features most users want and concentrate...
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Good morning from Noordhoek

By Bianca Gubalke

Good morning from Noordhoek Good Morning from Noordhoek is an inspiring greeting showing Life in a Day, each day, in Noordhoek, South Africa.   Good morning from Noordhoek When today’s newspapers announced that there had been over 100 dolphins right here on Noordhoek Beach, I grabbed my NIKON Coolpix P90 and zoomed down with...
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Good Morning from Noordhoek

By Bianca Gubalke

Good Morning from Noordhoek Good Morning from Noordhoek is an inspiring greeting showing Life in a Day, each day, in Noordhoek, South Africa! Good Morning from Noordhoek Today seems to be a little on the edge, without a clear decision… sunny or overcast? In any case, it’s warm and beautiful here in Noordhoek, South...
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Grevillea lanigera Photo

By Bianca Gubalke

Grevillea lanigera Photo On today’s journey through my garden to capture the daily “Good Morning from Noordhoek” picture, I was amazed how bright the colors were despite the dark clouds covering the sky. While the daisies and vygies didn’t even bother to open, I could take a relatively good photo of a Grevillea lanigera:...
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Good Morning from Noordhoek

By Bianca Gubalke

Good Morning from Noordhoek Good Morning from Noordhoek – bringing you Joy and a Smile every day!   Good Morning from Noordhoek Shooting my “Good morning from Noordhoek” photo today was an instant reflex as I saw the little female peeping down at me from her nest just 50 cm from our terrace wall...
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