Provia100f on The Singemonkey

October 02, 2021

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 13:31:04 +0000

I don’t know why I started thinking about this picture. Tibetan monks in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India, reading from old books in the Tibetan script. Maybe books that they smuggled out of Tibet after the Chinese takeover.

One of the things that always put me off was a very unfortunate tendency by my Nikon F100 to leave a scratch across the film - a slender straight black line caused by the film being pulled across some piece of grit on the pressure plate. I can get rid of it with a bit of work, but I’d always just move on. Now it maybe seems like part of the nostalgia for these pictures.

January 26, 2021

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:23:29 +0000

It’s not hard to love the warthog. Knee-high to most of the things you see on the savannahs and deserts of sub-Saharan Africa. Tough as nails. Trotting along with their maned and whiskered piglets in a train, their tails up like flags. Or down on their wrists nosing in the dirt. Unlovely but loveable - they’re jaunty endurance in the face of powerful challenges.

This, like the last one, was taken in 2012.

January 26, 2021

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:13:24 +0000

The very beautiful Impala. While the lowveld is thick with these, I never get tired of them. One of the most beautiful and graceful antelope you’ll ever see. In full panic they make astonishing leaps during their dashes for safety - taking to the air like 75kg swallows. Impala is one of the all-time most beautiful animal names. But I also like the Afrikaans, “rooibok,” - which means simply red buck.

January 23, 2021

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 22:57:45 +0000

Klipspringers. Look at the little ballet hooflets.

Found this as well, while scrolling through Lightroom. I got some great footage of Klipspringers over Christmas. Now I just have to bring myself to face Davinci and edit that stuff. In the meanwhile, here’s a pic I took in 2012 at about the same place in the Karoo National Park - Klipspringerpas. These are basically the Southern African equivalent of mountain goats. The name means ‘rockjumper.’ Those dainty little hooves do great work for leaping about cliffs and boulders.

August 06, 2020

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 14:10:40 +0000

#throwbackthursday One of the many other gorgeous buildings at the Taj Mahal complex built by Shah Jehan in the city of Agra. Northern spring, 2005.

March 26, 2020

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 20:17:15 +0000

Bra Zeb. Judah’s Square, Knysna. 2002?

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.