Latergram on The Singemonkey

October 17, 2024

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:06:27 +0000

from our holiday in Knysna with @ezlemoen (pictured dispensing wisdom) and @sophdex

April 04, 2024

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:24:12 +0000

John demonstrates his fistfuls of charcoal braaiing technique in his back yard in August 2023. The gum trees are a trial to him dropping leaves steadily in his pool. But in compensation they’ve attracted a young African Harrier Hawk or Gymnogene which is always an exciting garden visitor.

October 02, 2021

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 13:17:00 +0000

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.

October 01, 2021

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 08:56:26 +0000

Pity about the shadows. But a very rare picture of these two eccentric gents in the wild: Gareth and Marcus (with beard!). I’ve quoted Hunter Thompson with regard to Gareth before, but it goes for both of them: “Too strange to live. Too rare to die.

September 22, 2021

Wed, 22 Sep 2021 12:59:07 +0000

I found a few pics on cards from our 2019/2020 trip to Kruger. That was summer and the impalas were giving birth to huge numbers of lambs - most of which are destined to be dinner rather than grown up impalas. But they are delightful little creatures.

September 06, 2021

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 08:14:28 +0000

It’s a party in Jozi to see @cara.stacey announced as the Standard Bank Young Artist Of The Year! It’s an amazing achievement. I was very glad to be “there” with @sophdex, @ezlemoen, and @withoutaleaf to take it in in style.

January 05, 2020

Sun, 05 Jan 2020 10:45:18 +0000

My wonderful cousin, @joydemillar and Debby are hitched! What a great pair of humans they are. I’m so glad I’ve connected with Joy and her brother @timdrmillar , and even their cousins Jonathan and Belinda through Joy being the best drummer we’ve ever had in 20 years of @krakatoa_band. Those kids have all turned into the most warm-hearted adults I could imagine.

This is the last day of my holiday. It’s pointless me adding the #latergram tag to the pics I’ll be posting, since I’m just bad at instagram and pretty much all of them would be. I ran out of steam to post in Kruger, but I have a few to share.

November 19, 2019

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:58:19 +0000

Sometimes we have to venture into weird little SA village pubs and meet the locals so you don’t have to. Throwback to a few years back on a winter night in Nieu Bethesda. Apart from the TV there’s not much to tell you it was taken after 1955.

October 25, 2019

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:36:28 +0000

@sophdex knows how to wedding, and doesn’t care if you know it.

October 25, 2019

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:32:52 +0000

Spring wedding for @johnthevudio and Aleks.

August 07, 2019

Wed, 07 Aug 2019 19:07:04 +0000

Mad kitter. I’ve shot a lot of wildlife footage over the years but I’ve never done anything with it. Maybe it’s time to actually cut some of it together - even though the gear I used is pretty primitive by todays standards.

June 10, 2019

Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:08:45 +0000

This character had a lot to say to me in a growly little old lady voice on my lunch run.

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.

April 28, 2019

Sun, 28 Apr 2019 14:16:51 +0000

The Diaz Tavern is just one of those local places - far from fancy but forever popular. Simple Portuguese and Moçambiquan food (grilled sardines followed by steak ’n chips for me) and a gathering place for CT’s Portuguese community it seems. Substance over style. Parabens.

August 27, 2018

Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:47:37 +0000

@matthijs_van_dijk, composer and violinist. From fun arrangements of things like the Game Of Thrones theme to challenging and complex originals. @cara.stacey at the back on keys and vocals.

July 18, 2018

Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:28:25 +0000

An observatory sunset heading home from a pint at The Wild Fig on Saturday with @sophdex and @ezlemoen .

July 09, 2018

Mon, 09 Jul 2018 13:59:40 +0000

A fierce looking man with a heart of gold and a brain like a finely tuned machine. Saturday braai in our Indian Summer spent talking about braai things - tube amplifiers and convolutional neural networks.

May 22, 2018

Tue, 22 May 2018 13:57:28 +0000

The City of Cape Town keeping our rivers healthy by removing the build up of alien plants.

April 06, 2018

Fri, 06 Apr 2018 13:56:38 +0000

I’ve been on insta over a year but I’m still not great at it. For evidence here’s a fried egg on a toasted roll that I made…

November 30, 2017

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:21:48 +0000

Beautiful guitar necks with exotic wood fretboards and custom shaping @haywardcustomguitars in Woodstock, Capetown. The finest, made-to-measure instruments right here at South African prices.

October 18, 2017

Wed, 18 Oct 2017 08:34:16 +0000

Very old pic from more than ten years back that I found. Tableview beach at sunset. I was playing with my Mamiya C330 which Is just bought for a song with a bunch of lenses. This is an uncropped Fuji Provia 100 slide taken with the 270mm (is that right?) lens - the longest lens for Mamiya TLRs.

October 17, 2017

Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:40:56 +0000

Dear Captain Codstock - voted Mr. Eyebrows, Cape Town, four years in a row. A heart that pumps gold… and tea.

October 07, 2017

Sat, 07 Oct 2017 09:13:22 +0000

Perusing. We have a cheerful neighborhood pizza and pasta joint that we’ve gone to for years when we want warm, familiar surroundings and good, humble food.

September 15, 2017

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:32:08 +0000

Here’s a throwback to the flowers many years ago. 2006 actually. Taken on my little Pentax MX with Fuji Velvia slide film. A great day out with @rhodentette and @midnight_knox.

March 07, 2017

Tue, 07 Mar 2017 20:19:23 +0000