Busy today, although it did include sushi for lunch and beer in front of the TV, but that’s time that’s not being spent blogging.
So step forward a quota photo of Table Mountain, taken from the Waterfront.
Better and bigger on Flickr.
Tomorrow, possibly more writing, although equally, possibly not.
Loving this “new” camera.
And I like my photo of a bird that I took in Suiderstrand yesterday.
I’m not really an expert on birds, but I think that this one is a juvenile Rock Kestrel – that’s Falco [tinnunculus] rupicolis to you (or Carl Linnaeus). See how it doesn’t yet have the grey head of the adult Rock Kestrel? But equally, lacks the paler underside of the Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni)?
Yeah, this one has got juvenile Rock Kestrel written all over it*.
Fortunately, I have plenty of bird experts on hand who will be happy to put me right, should I have misidentified this feathery thing.
This little guy was ever so obliging, hanging around on a window ledge for ages and ages while I pointed and shot. This sort of photogenicity is rare in wild birds of prey – they’re usually really standoffish – and is to be applauded.
* note to self – patent labelling system to better differentiate birds of similar appearance.
I was going to wake up early and take some shots of the sunrise this morning. But then I didn’t.
Fortunately, astronaut Scott Kelly, currently aboard the International Space Station, took one for me:
He must have got up properly early to get that.
While Mrs 6000 went racehorseing, I took the kids to the Waterfront. If she was going to have a good time, so were we.
Some pizza, some fish, a big wheel and an ice cream or two later, we headed home. It’s been a good day, but the photos will have to wait till tomorrow – batteries are a bit low.
Not on the camera. On me.
Here’s a great photo of Emirates A6-EDW arriving at Manchester as EK17 yesterday – a flight I used several times last year. The A380 is such a loveable, huggable plane; full of soft curves. I’m posting this one with the flimsy excuse of it being for my son, who simply cannot get enough of them. The fact is, I quite like them too.
Not sure of the photographer, but I love the yellow landing lights framing the subject. Lovely.
And, should you want to feel nearer than you are, there’s a cropped close-up here. YOU CAN SEE THE PEOPLE IN THE LITTLE WINDOW ON THE FRONT! (Whatever the technical name for that is) (Windscreen? Like a car? Really?) OK then.