Whenever I hear the name of this antelope, I always start singing this song.
Because today was already rather busy, but suddenly just got a whole lot more hectic, this guy (whom I shot on Friday) (not in a biltongy kind of way) just became my quota photo of the day.
Thank you for your understanding.
Lovely day with the berg wind blowing today, so we walked the beagle early and then I used the opportunity to get a few jobs done (including bathing a reluctant canine) and watched a bit of the cricket.
A far cry from a few months ago up the mountain, where it was grey, cold and wet. Especially for these guys:
Such were the conditions up there that it was only the next morning we saw the sign saying that perhaps swimming “wasn’t allowed”.
So obviously, if you see any of these individuals in the street, please remind them that they were inadvertently very naughty up in the clouds and they really shouldn’t do it again.
Busy day today and a party this evening (at a place with a massive log fire, thank goodness: it’s been one of the coldest weeks since I moved to SA), so I’m chucking in a quick Quota Photo for today’s post.
It’s a Southern Rock Agama (Agama atra).
…or at least, the head of a Southern Rock Agama (Agama atra).
Spotted at the top of Chapman’s Peak a couple of months ago (when daytime temperatures were still perfectly reasonable), and bigger and better on black here.
I’ve been playing some catch up with editing photos. Not that they weren’t edited previously, but it’s always, always worth revisiting them with fresh eyes. I made so many changes to images that I already thought were just right. You can get so involved in fixing bits of the image that you lose (no pun intended here) the bigger picture. I found and corrected several examples of this.
One particular favourite image from the set was this one:
Five bracketed shots merged in Lightroom to ensure some semblance of decent exposure throughout. Bigger on black here. Picturesque.
There are at least one or two others which I really like from my recent expeditions, but they are part of a project I’m doing, and I’m not sure that it would be right to share them on here just yet (or maybe, in fact, ever).
The one above doesn’t have any such restrictions, as far as I’m concerned. Those mountains are fair game to anyone with a camera (or, in this case, a drone) and it’s really not my fault if they choose to be so very striking when I’m trying to take specific photos of specific stuff.
I mean, honestly, who could resist?
I’ve been sent a photo of a Lar Gibbon. There’s no way I couldn’t not share it. I mean, how cool is he?
Definitely my favourite primate.
(Although I couldn’t eat a whole one.)