{"id":38329,"date":"2024-02-18T10:36:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T17:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=38329"},"modified":"2024-02-18T10:42:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T17:42:20","slug":"the-pushmi-pullyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2024\/02\/18\/the-pushmi-pullyu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pushmi-Pullyu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Two ended.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Pushmi-Pullyu is a two headed unicorn-gazelle cross, one head at either end.  It features in Hugh Lofting&#8217;s &#8216;Doctor Dolittle&#8217; children&#8217;s books from the 1920s.  In the Rex Harrison movie of 1967 it becomes a llama, but the design is much the same.<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of this when snapping these giraffes in London Zoo in November, 1972<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Pushmi-Pullyu.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Leica M3, Visoflex II, 280mm Telyt.  TriX.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That hardware was a real pig to use but it worked fine with giraffes!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/M3_Visoflex.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>The Leica M3 with the Visoflex II and a 200mm Telyt.  TriX.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The long Telyt lenses had manual pre-set diaphragms, weighing a ton, and the mirror attachment (adding further tonnage) required that the mirror be re-cocked\/lowered manually after each exposure.  A Nikon F would have been a better idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two ended. The Pushmi-Pullyu is a two headed unicorn-gazelle cross, one head at either end. It features in Hugh Lofting&#8217;s &#8216;Doctor Dolittle&#8217; children&#8217;s books from the 1920s. In the Rex Harrison movie of 1967 it becomes a llama, but the design is much the same. I was reminded of this when snapping these giraffes in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2024\/02\/18\/the-pushmi-pullyu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pushmi-Pullyu<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38333,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38329\/revisions\/38333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}