https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/tags/africandawn/ Recent content in Africandawn on The Singemonkey Hugo en-us Sat, 24 Dec 2022 12:19:33 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2022-12-24-dawn-impala-im-trying-some/ Sat, 24 Dec 2022 12:19:33 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2022-12-24-dawn-impala-im-trying-some/ <p>Dawn impala. I&rsquo;m trying some new camera settings and they take a bit of getting used to. Quite a bit of noise on this one. Correctible with care. But I didn&rsquo;t need a very high shutter-speed for this kind of thing.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2022-07-04-missed-the-mountain-on-the/ Mon, 04 Jul 2022 08:53:10 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2022-07-04-missed-the-mountain-on-the/ <div class="swiper carousel-container"> <div class="swiper-wrapper"> <div class="swiper-slide"> <img src="17973899743615344.jpg" alt=""> </div> <div class="swiper-slide"> <img src="18023941459389217.jpg" alt=""> </div> <div class="swiper-slide"> <img src="18185345263200548.jpg" alt=""> </div> <div class="swiper-slide"> <img src="18239181817115951.jpg" alt=""> </div> <div class="swiper-slide"> <img src="17981952202506947.jpg" alt=""> </div> <div class="swiper-slide"> <img src="17941197089151870.jpg" alt=""> </div> </div> <div class="swiper-button-next"></div> <div class="swiper-button-prev"></div> <div class="swiper-pagination"></div> </div> <p>Missed the mountain on the weekend thanks to weather. Got up long before dawn to get up there early. Was delayed by minibus taxis blocking the green light. Hurrah for private enterprise over public services! Got there though.</p> <p>No cultists on a Monday. I found I somewhat missed them.</p> <p>Thinking of my sibling who’s experiencing impaired vision due to COVID - a rare <em>but not undocumented effect</em>. Covid is real, it’s still here, and it’s still a serious disease. Holding thumbs.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-05-04-trinket-is-the-agile-one/ Mon, 04 May 2020 09:42:54 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-05-04-trinket-is-the-agile-one/ <p>Trinket is the agile one. So using the balcony railing as her runway doesn&rsquo;t bother us. Skitten on the other hand - who&rsquo;s twice been witnessed trying to jump onto a coffee table and failing - makes us fret every time.</p> <p>I took a run Friday when the maximum lockdown restrictions ended. But I need to rethink. The government&rsquo;s curious decision to only allow exercise between 6 and 9 AM meant that my run by the river was like Oxford Street on a Saturday morning. <em>Most</em> people were wearing masks, but the social distancing is near impossible. . In general our government has given a very mixed performance during the pandemic so far. They locked down early and hard - which is good. But they&rsquo;ve failed to provide adequately for the massive food insecurity, tolerated extraordinary levels of police brutality (including multiple murders of civlians), and made decisions on lockdown policies that lack any evidence base. It feels, as usual, like the conflict between the essentially competent (if unimaginative) faction of the president and his allies vs. the remaining kleptocrats from Jacob Zuma&rsquo;s economic strip-mining regime - including the police minister, Bekhi Cele.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2017-12-31-pre-dawn-on-the-sabie-river/ Sun, 31 Dec 2017 04:44:09 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2017-12-31-pre-dawn-on-the-sabie-river/ <p>Pre-dawn on the Sabie River is when the night wails of the bushbaby mix with the victory cry of the fish eagle.</p>