8. Flowers and Plants Series

This Series is not about great photography. It is, as  mentioned, firstly, about finding pretty things in ugly places. Then just a record of what flora I found in my travels.

You can read about some of my “travels” here.

THE MEXICAN HORSE THIEF

Photography 101 SA is an educational club where amateurs and professionals can join and share Techniques and Photo’s join our competitions and market your product to Magazines and Websites Developers, Locally and International. It is an educational based club hosted run and managed by:
The Mexican and Bierpens.

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The Coin Security Fiasco.

I had answered an ad in the paper and set up an interview in Sandton. As I was still working part-time with the pet shop guy, and thought the interview would not take long, I took along two snakes to be delivered and my girlfriend. I parked in the underground garage in the posh Sandton city and, dressed in my suit, arrived on time for the interview. Something made me leave my gun with my girlfriend.

In the middle of the interview the manager that was conducting the interview got an emergency phone call. He was told that there had been an accidental shooting at the barracks in Midrand, and asked if we could continue the interview in the car on the way there. I said that would be fine. I had no cell phone to tell my girlfriend of the developments, but she was always a very patient person.

We drove through to the barracks and as we drove through the gates two security guards slammed them shut and chained them closed with a padlock. I had no idea what was happening, but knew enough to know we had just fallen into a trap! This idiot manager had been fooled into coming out here. There had been no accidental shooting; these guys just wanted a larney in their hands.

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Extract from The Chronicles of the Mexican Horse Thief II, to be published soon.
The Chronicles of the Mexican Horse Thief I – Angola is available HERE