https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/tags/jozi/ Recent content in Jozi on The Singemonkey Hugo en-us Fri, 06 Sep 2024 07:46:17 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-06-no-time-to-enjoy-this/ Fri, 06 Sep 2024 07:46:17 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-06-no-time-to-enjoy-this/ <p>No time to enjoy this crumbling Melville splendour. Leaving eJozi early. So wonderful to see <a href="https://instagram.com/sophdex">@sophdex</a> and <a href="https://instagram.com/ezlemoen">@ezlemoen</a> though.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2021-10-02-a-latergram-of-an-indian/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 13:17:00 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2021-10-02-a-latergram-of-an-indian/ <p>A #latergram of an Indian takeaway feast in the Jozi home of our dear friends <a href="https://instagram.com/sophdex">@sophdex</a> and <a href="https://instagram.com/ezlemoen">@ezlemoen</a> with parents, Jill and Pierre, and collies, airedales, and cats. Johannesburg doesn&rsquo;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.</p> <p>Shooting scenes like this in available darkness is a big part of what makes having a fast wide-angle lens such a pleasure.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-10-03-another-one-of-hillbrow-from/ Sat, 03 Oct 2020 11:12:58 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-10-03-another-one-of-hillbrow-from/ <p>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 &rsquo;70s. Such a <em>killer</em> lens. Anyone using Nikon SLRs or DSLRs should try get one. They&rsquo;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.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-10-03-jozi-my-dad-has-been/ Sat, 03 Oct 2020 10:42:45 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-10-03-jozi-my-dad-has-been/ <p>#jozi My dad has been posting some of his pics from Hilbrow and Berea in the 1960s when he lived there. This is Hilbrow now. It doesn&rsquo;t look like all that much to people in many places around the world - really just some grubby 50s-70s high-rises. But Johannesburg is unique in Africa for having a true &lsquo;urban jungle.&rsquo; Nowhere else has such a concentration of tall buildings - not Cairo. Not Lagos. It was all built on the gold dug far beneath the Earth by workers treated as less-than second-class citizens sweltering in the darkness.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2018-12-25-xmas-looking-out-over-the/ Tue, 25 Dec 2018 12:04:01 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2018-12-25-xmas-looking-out-over-the/ <p>Xmas looking out over the Melville koppie. Loads of fancy bushveld birds abound.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2018-12-25-scenes-from-ghostly-jozi-streets/ Tue, 25 Dec 2018 11:59:27 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2018-12-25-scenes-from-ghostly-jozi-streets/ <p>Scenes from ghostly Jozi streets.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2018-12-24-we-have-made-it-to/ Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:01:08 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2018-12-24-we-have-made-it-to/ <p>We have made it to lovely Jozi with thunder, great friends, gin, collies, and pink flamingos.</p>