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News subject: Sponsorship - Magalies Vulture Release.mov

An example production from my portfolio. Corporate internal news channel subject. Directed and edited by Alan Cook. All facts were relevant and correct at the time of publication but may no longer be true at this moment in time. Copyright Sasol.

Magaliesburg Mining Part 1 1 October 2012

The Magaliesburg has always been a breathe of fresh air just far enough out of the hustle and bustle of Johannesburg, brilliant for a weekend away and home to countless country-loving people. The beautiful landscape is also home to many fragile ecosystems and to the World Heritage Site, the Cradle of Humankind. All this is being threatened for a shiny mineral. Several prospecting applications for gold and nickel mining in the Magaliesberg have been submitted to the DMR in quick succession, even within the borders of the Cradle of Humankind. In some cases, landowners and other affected parties have not been notified in good time...and they're not happy about this If mining applications are approved, the once haven for red data list species will become a maize of dusty roads and mine shafts. Furthermore, large companies are apparently threatening individuals with costly court cases if they speak out against the potential mining threat. For prospecting samples to be collected, the permission of landowners is required but this has not been the case and gaping holes bear testament to where rocks have been chipped away on private property, unauthorized. The quiet surrounds of the Magaliesberg look to become the spoils in another battle of environment vs. mining.

Magaliesburg Verreaux's eagle project

KaiNav Conservation Foundation's Diet analysis study of urban Verreaux's eagles

Mountain Sanctuary Park

Hiking in the Magaliesberg, messing around in the rock pools with the Go-Pro.
Big jump I reckon is at least 6m.

MAGALIES - Jon Cutler-You Groove (feat. Kemdi).m4v

The area around the Magaliesberg range has seen extremely lengthy occupation by humans dating back at least 2 million years to the earliest hominin species (such as Mrs Ples) in and around the Sterkfontein Caves, which lie at the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, close to the town of Magaliesburg.
The Magaliesberg Range has a very long geological history. Its quartzites, shales, chert and dolomite were deposited as sediments in an inland basin on top of the 3 billion year old Archaean Basement Complex. This process of sedimentation lasted for about 300 million years. About 2 billion years ago a massive upwelling of molten magma resulted in what is now known as the Bushveld Igneous Complex. The enormous weight of this intrusion depressed the sediments that lay beneath and tilted the sediments along the edges so that the broken scarps faced outward and upward, and the gentler dip slopes inward. During the same period these sediments were fractured and igneous intrusions of dolerite filled the cracks. With the passage of time these intrusions eroded, especially on the dip slopes, forming deep kloofs or ravines providing excellent rock-climbing potential to modern man. This large dogbone-shaped area is now termed the Transvaal Basin and includes the lofty escarpment of the Transvaal Drakensberg overlooking the Lowveld in the eastern part of the country. Massive outpourings of igneous material of the much younger Karroo System later covered the Transvaal Basin, but this was subsequently eroded so that it only remains along the Transvaal Basin's southern rim.

Jon Cutler-You Groove Me (feat. Kemdi), sound recording administered by:
IODA

FILMING BENEATH THE WATER'S SURFACE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST MOUNTAIN RANGE by Mark Kirchmann.

The Magaliesberg Range has a very long geological history. Its quartzites, shales, chert and dolomite were deposited as sediments in an inland basin on top of the 3 billion year old Archaean Basement Complex. This process of sedimentation lasted for about 300 million years. Not only is this a photographic statement with my Fujifilm XP but also offers me insight through the eyes of prehistoric creatures.