A #latergram of an Indian takeaway feast in the Jozi home of our dear friends @sophdex and @ezlemoen with parents, Jill and Pierre, and collies, airedales, and cats. Johannesburg doesn’t look nearly as welcoming in spring compared to summer. But get indoors and the citizens (not just our friends) are as friendly as ever. Shooting scenes like this in available darkness is a big part of what makes having a fast wide-angle lens such a pleasure.
Another one of Hillbrow from Constitution Hill in Jan 2019. I took this with a lens not much newer than these flats - a Nikkor 105mm f2.5 from the ’70s. Such a killer lens. Anyone using Nikon SLRs or DSLRs should try get one. They’re not very expensive. Wonderful cheap portrait lens for full-frame - flattening features and separating from the background with its shallow depth-of-field at f2.5. And I found endless other uses for it too. ...
Johannesburg is the only true urban space in Africa - with blocks and blocks of towers so that you can walk for ages only seeing the sky as strips above your head. Other big cities like Lagos and Cairo are mostly flat sprawls.
Joburg does traffic… and weather… way more intensely than Cape Town. Soundtrack worked out nicely 😂.