Tbt on The Singemonkey

March 12, 2020

Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:16:57 +0000

@kanesnaps and me in 1997. I knew how to use the self-timer. Unfortunately I didn’t know how aperture and depth-of-field corresponded in those days. This was influenced - without the technical ability to pull it off - by the famous Mick Rock photoshoot of Syd Barrett (I was obsessed with Syd Barrett) with his purple and orange striped floorboards. I should be very clear that the weed smoking Bob Marley poster belonged to my flatmate thank-you-very-much. I, of course, had a Bill Brandt print up in my room #pretentious .

November 29, 2018

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:23:56 +0000

#tbt A house that subsequently burned to the ground and was rebuilt. 2004 or so. @kanecroudace could you please tag the others?

November 29, 2018

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:13:41 +0000

#tbt @withoutaleaf all the way back in 2006. What an extraordinary person.

November 15, 2018

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 14:37:18 +0000

#tbt It couldn’t have been more obvious that ‘bar mooda’ was a front for organised crime. Expensive décor. No one in it. The police did nothing for reasons that are easy to guess. It took the staff being tied up and the place being firebombed to finally drive this particular blight from Observatory. This was taken on the morning of the firebombing.

November 08, 2018

Thu, 08 Nov 2018 19:19:46 +0000

@federicoandraderivas sounded a bit nostalgic about his time writing his master’s thesis in @hello_sailor_bistro from his vantage point of writing his PHD in Vancouver. Surprise, surprise. I found a pic of him writing in there. Must have been a good few years back.

November 01, 2018

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 13:41:04 +0000

#tbt 4th July 2004 according to the EXIF data. This was some kind of national competition. I think this was the épée final judging from the audience watching in the background. The fencer in the foreground is Clementine Williams who I used to fence with even back in school, and her opponent is called Jacobs and I think was from Wits.

November 01, 2018

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 12:54:41 +0000

#tbt When the Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) cathedral was built it was the largest church in the Christian world and had the largest dome of any building. After Constantinople was conquered by the Turks (the final end of the Roman Empire) it was converted into a mosque (as Christians did to mosques in Southern Spain too) and the minarets were added. But the original 1st church of the Roman Empire still stands today. And this is what it looked like on a nice day in Istanbul in 2000.

October 25, 2018

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:38:02 +0000

#tbt bonus. Flamingos in the mist.

October 25, 2018

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:27:49 +0000

#tbt From fake Tri-X to the real thing. The beautiful young Gareth by candlelight in 1997.

October 18, 2018

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 15:37:25 +0000

#tbt to the last time I tried to shoot wildlife on a medium format film camera. And by luck we encountered this scarred old veteran close enough for the Pentax 400mm lens with a 1.4x extender.

October 11, 2018

Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:02:07 +0000

#tbt to when we drove past this tall kitty strolling down the road.

August 23, 2018

Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:20:26 +0000

Is #tbt still a thing? This was a combined birthday dinner for me and my ma at Cousin’s restaurant in Cape Town where parm was scraped from a big wheel for the pasta. Cheese based entertainments are the best kind. March 2015.

August 16, 2018

Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:20:04 +0000

While I’m going through some ancient pics, this is one I’ve always been fond of. Scanned a bit small. I used a clunky old Takumar 400mm lens and my old Pentax MX with Tri-X film. I’m still interested in making wildlife pics with B&W, though it’s not as original an idea as it was back in 2002 or whenever.

August 16, 2018

Thu, 16 Aug 2018 10:27:01 +0000

Ok. It’s actually Thursday for the official #tbt. I don’t think I’ve ever shown anyone this version of this pic at Boudhanath in Nepal. Pretty sure this was on Velvia 50. This was back in 2005.

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March 30, 2017

Thu, 30 Mar 2017 12:38:41 +0000