https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/tags/classicdslr/ Recent content in Classicdslr on The Singemonkey Hugo en-us Sat, 15 Mar 2025 19:16:37 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2025-03-15-lovely-morning-at-intaka-island/ Sat, 15 Mar 2025 19:16:37 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2025-03-15-lovely-morning-at-intaka-island/ <p>Lovely morning at Intaka Island with my dad and my dear cousin <a href="https://instagram.com/joydemillar">@joydemillar</a> Waiting proved worthwhile and this living jewel of South Africa’s rivers and lakes eventually settled close enough. It had a ring on its tiny leg. These little Malachite Kingfishers are about the size of a large hen’s egg. This one is, I think, a sub-adult with traces of black still on its bill.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-11-16-not-too-much-call-for/ Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:06:56 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-11-16-not-too-much-call-for/ <p>Not too much call for mowing the lawn in camp at The Karoo National Park. This is a big old Mountain Tortoise about the size of a medicine ball. It let me take a few pics before it started to feel it was infra dig, hissed at me and then trundled off to continue harvesting.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-23-another-hopefully-atmospheric-bushveld-scene/ Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:13:31 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-23-another-hopefully-atmospheric-bushveld-scene/ <p>Another hopefully atmospheric bushveld scene. Buffalo and a Sabie River wild fig tree. I like this kind of pic to remind me of the experience of being on that river road when it’s very far away.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-23-sunset-impalas-were-on-our/ Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:07:09 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-23-sunset-impalas-were-on-our/ <p>Sunset Impalas. We’re on our way home and have been having some patchy wifi. It was a really good time in the park. We finally saw a pack of painted wolves about half an hour before we drove out of Malelane Gate.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-19-tiny-critters-in-a-big/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:21:58 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-19-tiny-critters-in-a-big/ <p>Tiny critters in a big landscape. Almost every pile of boulders (ancient magma chambers exposed by erosion and then crumbled by weather, plants, and time) has a pair of resident klipspringers (rock-hoppers) - an adorable, agile, and feisty little antelope.</p> <p>These plaques on the rocks are the kind of memorialising that used to be de rigueur in the old days. Now such things are usually confined to camps and gates rather than forced onto the landscape.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-19-scratching-post-elephant-africanelephant-scartchingpost/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:45:04 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-19-scratching-post-elephant-africanelephant-scartchingpost/ <p>Scratching post.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-19-kruger-is-about-landscape-as/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:39:38 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-19-kruger-is-about-landscape-as/ <p>Kruger is about landscape as well as beasts, birds, and trees.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-18-theres-a-certain-type-of/ Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:12:50 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-18-theres-a-certain-type-of/ <p>There’s a certain type of wildlife picture that I just really enjoy even if it’s not very clever. 1960s/1970s style wildlife portraiture.</p> <p>Thinking about my dear cousins <a href="https://instagram.com/joydemillar">@joydemillar</a> and <a href="https://instagram.com/timdrmillar">@timdrmillar</a> today.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-15-the-prettiest-kitty-dozing-on/ Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:51:42 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-15-the-prettiest-kitty-dozing-on/ <div class="swiper carousel-container"> <div class="swiper-wrapper"> <div class="swiper-slide"> <img src="18199798756294061.jpg" alt=""> </div> <div class="swiper-slide"> <img src="18006539087442580.jpg" alt=""> </div> <div class="swiper-slide"> <img src="17849243067264637.jpg" alt=""> </div> </div> <div class="swiper-button-next"></div> <div class="swiper-button-prev"></div> <div class="swiper-pagination"></div> </div> <p>The prettiest kitty. Dozing on a branch over the Sabie just like her ancestors have probably done for thousands of years.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-13-yesterday-evening-on-the-sabie/ Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:47:55 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-13-yesterday-evening-on-the-sabie/ <p>Yesterday evening on the Sabie - for my money the most beautiful river in South Africa. And that has a lot to with the huge wild fig trees that line its banks.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-12-a-big-old-bruiser-buffalo/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:22:55 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-12-a-big-old-bruiser-buffalo/ <p>A big old bruiser.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-12-weve-had-two-days-of/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 06:36:26 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-12-weve-had-two-days-of/ <p>We’ve had two days of frankly chilly weather but today it’s back to the proper lowveld heat.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-12-the-smallest-hyena-ive-ever/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 06:29:53 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-12-the-smallest-hyena-ive-ever/ <div class="swiper carousel-container"> <div class="swiper-wrapper"> <div class="swiper-slide"> <img src="18035271266173917.jpg" alt=""> </div> <div class="swiper-slide"> <img src="17842881132302502.jpg" alt=""> </div> <div class="swiper-slide"> <img src="17937104894875756.jpg" alt=""> </div> <div class="swiper-slide"> <img src="17953225064718260.jpg" alt=""> </div> <div class="swiper-slide"> <img src="18094314628462509.jpg" alt=""> </div> </div> <div class="swiper-button-next"></div> <div class="swiper-button-prev"></div> <div class="swiper-pagination"></div> </div> <p>The smallest hyena I’ve ever seen. Its ma is obsessed with it.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-09-all-elephants-together-elephant-africanelephant/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 19:28:20 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-09-all-elephants-together-elephant-africanelephant/ <p>All elephants together.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-09-ive-been-struggling-a-little/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:39:20 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-09-ive-been-struggling-a-little/ <p>I’ve been struggling a little with my photographic workflow since this 20 year old Nikon D200 uses the old compact flash cards and my card reader no longer reads them.</p> <p>One bit of emergency photo recovery and some new software later, I’m back in business. I should be posting more regularly on this trip.</p> <p>There’s been a lot of talk about the qualities of old CCD sensors like this one. But really the sensors before this generation (the last) were rather terrible.</p>