Crumbandtrinket on The Singemonkey

July 15, 2021

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:21:41 +0000

My lenses arrived. Literally the best customer service I’ve ever experienced. They suggested I cancel my initial purchase to take advantage of their sale that was coming up in a few days. When Aliexpress wasn’t cooperating on giving the promised free shipping they gave me a discount for another portal to the value of the sale - and then stayed in touch via whatsapp through Fedex’s idiocy until I had the lenses. @ttartisanofficial is a company that can be proud of its customer service and it speaks well of Chinese customer service in general.

February 28, 2021

Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:24:26 +0000

Trinket likes secret places for her daytime summer naps.

February 02, 2021

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 11:29:17 +0000

When Mr. Crumb first met Skitten, he was a smitten kitten. It’s happened to many. Four years on, his love for Skitten is still deep, pure, and a regular source of annoyance to Skitten.

January 31, 2021

Sun, 31 Jan 2021 18:04:24 +0000

Trinket enjoying a rainy sunday.

January 23, 2021

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 22:04:29 +0000

This fat boy is as tranquil as ever - fastidiously washing his face. He’s taken to lounging about in the shade outside - including in flower pots with his limbs hanging out. One day he’ll let me photograph him like that.

January 23, 2021

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 22:00:57 +0000

Trinket overcome by a truly savage yawn. She at least gets to go out visiting the neighbours by her wall-top pathways.

October 26, 2020

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:40:14 +0000

Spoiled Boi got a comfy spot provided under my morning balcony coffee chair. Taking a load off those big paws.

September 22, 2020

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 11:50:51 +0000

@withoutaleaf in her office with her colleagues, Mr. Crumb and Trinket, doing script timings.

August 13, 2020

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 16:48:51 +0000

Yes. It’s possible I may never photograph anything besides cats again. @withoutaleaf made a little tent on the couch for them in this cold weather.

August 08, 2020

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 18:27:50 +0000

We’re having a late winter cold snap.

August 07, 2020

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 18:44:28 +0000

Portrait of a handsome chap.

August 06, 2020

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 12:26:39 +0000

And now it’s a series. Trinket is enjoying the plushness of the winter duvet for her daytime snooze. I’m using all manual everything here. I don’t say that as a brag, but to reflect on how easy it is with a ‘modern’ mirrorless camera. There are a couple of new developments that excite me in this regard. The one is the massive viewfinder resolution and magnification of Sony’s latest camera. Over 2000 pixels across and 90% magnification. That’s like the best of both worlds. The what-you-see-is-what-you-get of mirrorless with all the fine visible detail of an optical viewfinder, plus the large size via the magnification of the best old film SLRs. That will make manual focusing even easier on mirrorless cameras. And then I’ve found out a Chinese company that’s made a knockoff of Leica’s 50mm f0.95 Nocton lens. The Leica costs $13,000 (no that’s not a typo). The TTartisans 50mm f0.95 costs $750 (that’s not a typo either) and seems to have better centre sharpness in tests than the Leica. Since Leica mount to mirrorless camera adaptors are tiny, it’d make the perfect portrait lens for a Fuji camera. But that gold-leaf thin depth of field at f0.95 would really be helped by a large, high-res viewfinder to aid focusing. Great times for users of dedicated cameras even as people are writing hot-takes about their death.

August 05, 2020

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 13:37:57 +0000

Poll: Who thinks we need to clean the windows after a third of a year of deadly epidemic. Comment below to cast your important vote. Nothing for six weeks and then two Trinkets in a row. Being less sneaky. She likes to hold a little vigil in the morning when the sun is diffusing so beautifully through the build-up of gunge on the windows. Probably making sure the street isn’t full of sneks. She’s very concerned about sneks, this one.

August 04, 2020

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 21:13:18 +0000

Not a single pic posted in July. Well, I’ve not gone more than a handful of kilometres from home. I’ll probably be one of those people with no pictures of this time that anyone in the future could recognise as being from the pandemic. But then I suppose there’ll be no shortage of pics of empty streets and masked faces. I’ll be pleased to look back at a picture of Trinket spotted through the kitchen window getting up to sneaky shenanigans.

October 25, 2019

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:38:28 +0000

A rare moment of sibling harmony from the gremmies.

October 03, 2019

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:35:14 +0000

And I shouldn’t keep Crumb from his fans. This is taken during his midday hard-burn sleep. Being this sleepy exhausts him and often requires him to take a post-sleep nap.

October 03, 2019

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:32:45 +0000

Trinket is also a big fan of the balcony in spring.

August 16, 2019

Fri, 16 Aug 2019 10:50:06 +0000

Spring is dropping hints all over the place and these guys are especially enjoying having balcony access.

June 27, 2019

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:24:30 +0000

It’s turning out a classic Cape June. And that means very chilly mornings - for which Mr Crumb has found ways of compensating.

June 27, 2019

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:22:01 +0000

Morning Trinket.

June 24, 2019

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 09:17:12 +0000

Our boi visiting his new balcony for the first time. He was very nervous but realised he could watch a little dog pottering down the street without being noticed. I think he liked that.

May 29, 2019

Wed, 29 May 2019 10:19:46 +0000

A throwback to when little Trinket was even littler. I’m hoping they’ll like their new house.

May 16, 2019

Thu, 16 May 2019 15:28:00 +0000

@withoutaleaf wins today’s Trinket pic competition. The weather’s changing and the cats are becoming sun-seekers. (btw, if you want to see pics I don’t post here, check out our @krakatoa_band account).

April 28, 2019

Sun, 28 Apr 2019 14:22:20 +0000

Even more drastic dieting actions may need to be taken with this fat Crumb. I’m testing different jpeg setting with the XE1. The idea is to see if I can get the pictures I want without have to do any post-processing at all. RAW files are great for specific things you may want to do to a pic, but it’s a pain in the ass to have to process every single pic. This will hopefully be a bit more like shooting slide film - where I’d choose the look I wanted when I chose the film to load, and the rest was simply down to camera, composition, and timing.

April 26, 2019

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 17:06:13 +0000

We’re moving this boy towards set meals. He’s a serial snacker. A snacktopus. And it’s showing.

April 23, 2019

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:16:10 +0000

Meanwhile in the chest-of-drawers…

April 15, 2019

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:06:51 +0000

This is Mr. Crumb’s sleepiest time of the day. And that’s saying something.

Carrying the new-old camera around, but until I get my eye in, I’ll just keep posting cat pics.

April 11, 2019

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 18:31:41 +0000

Still playing with the XE1, natch. It’s old. But not as old as the last one I was using. So I don’t have to restrict it to bright daylight. This arm of the couch is Trinket’s current top fave evening spot.

October 01, 2018

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:26:42 +0000

He’s back and blepping. Also he’s grounded.