https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/tags/bigbird/ Recent content in Bigbird on The Singemonkey Hugo en-us Fri, 25 Dec 2020 11:56:36 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-12-25-i-also-brought-my-little/ Fri, 25 Dec 2020 11:56:36 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-12-25-i-also-brought-my-little/ <p>I also brought my little Fuji XE1. We arrived at the park pretty late and got to see the Karoo turn gold in the evening light. Course with the Fuji there&rsquo;s no autofocus and no image stabilisation. So I felt I was pretty lucky to get anything close to sharp pics as these were all handheld grab shots.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-08-06-throwbackthursday-the-worlds-biggest-surviving/ Thu, 06 Aug 2020 13:11:58 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-08-06-throwbackthursday-the-worlds-biggest-surviving/ <p>#throwbackthursday The world&rsquo;s biggest surviving bird - and the world&rsquo;s biggest surviving dinosaur - enjoying a dust bath after a long day of grumpy peckin&rsquo;. <a href="https://instagram.com/withoutaleaf">@withoutaleaf</a> and I went to Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in 2008, I think. A spectacular piece of Southern Africa. Until quite recently it was one of the only places in which the world&rsquo;s oldest culture, the Bushman hunter-gatherers, could still practise their traditional way of life - until the Botswana government kicked them out.</p>