Windowcats on The Singemonkey

June 21, 2024

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:27:24 +0000

The Mouse is now firmly ensconced in my dad’s house. And she’s living up to her name/job-title as no mouse has been seen within since her arrival. She’s got to explore the outdoors for the first time in her life and is already in a feud with a squirrel that swears at her from a perch in the white stinkwood tree my folks planted when they moved in and now towers over the house.

October 01, 2021

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 08:52:37 +0000

I took many hundreds of pictures of Skitten since 2007. But this was the very last one. When we first got it home from Maatjiesfontein, I was convinced that we didn’t need a third cat. I took the cutest pictures I could of it parading about to make into a collage to advertise it… and in so doing it tricked me into falling in love with it.

It liked to sit on windowsills and contemplate the world going by. A most philosophical animal.

August 18, 2021

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 08:45:47 +0000

Morning Trinket.

Do people only still make black and white photographs to seem cool and sophisticated? The answer’s a little complicated. Knowing why you’d prefer a picture in black and white means you’ve spent a little time thinking about photography - which makes you a more ‘sophisticated’ appreciator of photographs. So then, in a sense, yes. But I can give you that ‘sophistication’ in not many words: Eliminating colour makes you more conscious of form, light and shadow, and detail. So, like any abstraction, it shows you things that that the full set of information may conceal. It helps you see the trees for the wood.

October 06, 2020

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 17:01:19 +0000

Here’s another one of Trinket. Taken about this time yesterday when the late sun comes washing through the window of the little room where I work currently. Sometimes she visits and greatly enjoys standing on the table completely obscuring the screen and keyboard. But then sometimes she sits in the window and photosynthesises - as cats do. Got the Nikon adapter so I’m trying a very old Nikkor 50mm f1.4 instead of the Olympus Zuiko 50mm f1.8 I’ve been using for cat portraits ’til now.

August 05, 2020

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 13:37:57 +0000

Poll: Who thinks we need to clean the windows after a third of a year of deadly epidemic. Comment below to cast your important vote. Nothing for six weeks and then two Trinkets in a row. Being less sneaky. She likes to hold a little vigil in the morning when the sun is diffusing so beautifully through the build-up of gunge on the windows. Probably making sure the street isn’t full of sneks. She’s very concerned about sneks, this one.

October 23, 2019

Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:53:27 +0000

On the way back from the shop, I stopped to talk to this handsome cat who was watching the world go by.

August 16, 2019

Fri, 16 Aug 2019 10:50:06 +0000

Spring is dropping hints all over the place and these guys are especially enjoying having balcony access.

July 27, 2019

Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:33:25 +0000

Trying out new jpeg settings on my little Fujifilm XE1. Never used a digital camera I liked this much. Straight out of camera jpegs can be tweaked to look so great.

June 27, 2019

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:22:01 +0000

Morning Trinket.