Like a Painting

Although I've posted something similar before - of some photos turning out to look like paintings - I'm doing it again because I've got some new ones to add.

This is the photo - a serene bushveld scene - that gave me the idea to post photos looking like paintings once more.

Yet another/similar scene . . .

. . . and one I'm convinced I've posted before, but because it's one of my favourite photos-that-look-like-a-painting - here it is again.

Now this is definitely a new "choice" because it belongs to the photos I snapped during the last tour/visit to the Kruger National Park.

"In a row". . . accordingly this photo is also part of another theme I've used before.

The "ideal shot" to end a "session" - a picturesque but also typically magnificent South African sunset.

Monkey Business

Since I've returned from the last tour with quite a "collection" of photos depicting (Vervet) monkeys, I've decided to share some of them on this blog today.

No, these 3 do NOT represent the 3 "wise" monkeys (see, hear OR speak no evil) but instead are 3 cute young monkeys "lining up".

The same 3 monkeys, just "posing" differently - I thought they looked so cute that they "deserve" to be seen from another angle/persepective.

Is this monkey trying to copy what it observed humans do, i.e. "using" a straw??

And then there were these monkeys ........

........ amongst which were a female & her apparently "shy" newborn .........

......... which the female appeared to "convince" that the gawking human photographer wasn't a threat .......

........ just there to admire & record whatever was "on offer".......

....... which another monkey youngster, sitting higher up in a tree, didn't appear to believe - yet it also revealed no signs of possibly feeling threatened in any way.

More Mother & Child

Once more I'm posting some mother-and-child-photos recently taken - like this female baboon & youngster . . .

. . . or this African penguin with 2 cute chicks . . .

. . . also similarly, an (African) female elephant with 2 youngsters, although not of the same age as the 2 penguin chicks (above).

As if on command so as to determine just how tiny the little White rhino was, the head of its mother appeared . . .

. . . wheras the head of this female hippo "served" to support its newborn youngster.

Back on terra firma a young Burchell's zebra requires sustenance . . .

. . . whilst 2 female giraffe with their 2 small youngsters block the road . . .

. . . and these kudus "prove" why they are known as handsome antelopes - & not only the magnificent males of their species.