Capture: Got the blues
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"chris", in reply to
I love those days that can't quite make up their mind, those ti kouka look fierce enough to scare even the most belligerent weather away.
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Even when spiky-looking in silhouette, cabbage trees/ti kouka have never seemed fierce to me. Though I can imagine thinking this one perhaps just a little spooky.
This an unexpected appearance of a ti kouka next door, emerging in longish exposure photograph of early dawn in November, over my woodshed roof. Even more unexpected was the silhouette of the tree at left, a houhere, looking remarkably like an early chart (say James Cook's) of the coast from here = Gisborne/Poverty Bay/Turanganui-a-Kiwa, around East Cape and Cape Runaway into the Bay of Plenty, while the silhouette at right is a feijoa tree (from South America, on the opposite side of the eastern ocean), so between them the ti kouka and Southern Cross and Pointers against the deep blue sky representing that South Pacific Ocean and its islands and us here.
So not at all fierce or spooky I think, but positively putting a characterful face to something quintessentially of here, emerging from the dark.
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Islander, in reply to
characterful face to something quintessentially of here, emerging from the dark.
And, a beautiful tree that is food both to us – and the birds-
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Blue lagoon. This lil’ piggy ran away…
from lucy's Birthday.
Blue sky -
Couple of old shots.
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More blue skies in California, this time from Hearst Castle in San Simeon –truly a monument to hubris. Note the cabbage tree! I also spotted a manuka in flower.
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I thought this would be particularly apt for this thread. It's not my photo - it comes from this website. - but I do like it, very much.
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Nevermind the streetscape, check out that sky, thanks to the spring winds.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Must've been quite some wind to clear up your sky like that!
Yesterday blue sky was glimpsed through a hole in the cloud...
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ChrisW, in reply to
Yesterday blue sky was glimpsed through a hole in the cloud...
It took me a while to sort this out –
That’s it - looks like the product of a damaged hole-puncher at work on the grey clouds, complete with hanging chad highlighted. -
Yesterday
interestingly dull
greys prevailed hereUntil late afternoon
textured blues emerged
in the northern skyAnd in the west
a bolt of blue lightning
sundered favourite trees.
Or is it land and sea
Pelorus Sound-like
through forested hills? -
Still a bit of room for blue - and parched gold
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Castles made of sand
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Sky stencil, Te Atatu.
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Further to my earlier post on this Blue thread on Norfolk pine crosses – here’s a fine set against a blue sky in Gisborne’s Taruheru cemetery. The headstone is a tall one backing onto my maternal grandfather’s grave. This was on Anzac Day, with a fresh breeze blowing such that the tops of the more tender trees are bent, their heads slight bowed it seemed, or gently nodding.
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I like this stack of blue ridges, smoothly curved to match the powerlines, that I often see when looking northwest up one of my neighbourhood streets. This at x12 zoom – the far ridge is almost 1000 m high and 49 km away – on a warm day earlier in the month, with plenty of heat shimmer. A band of brown grass in the then-drought helps bring out the pine-covered ridges.
Then this afternoon – more-or-less matching view less-zoomed, but a broad band of smoke from some distant source way inland was moving sideways across the sky from the west. Orange sky – there’s another thread for orange I know …
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Tree planting, China style. But look at that sky!
Great light and vivid colours thanks to the spring winds. And a high of 27, too.
Guanyin enjoying the sun. Something about the colouring on the wall makes it seem to my eyes like there are ghosts standing in front of it.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Something about the colouring on the wall makes it seem to my eyes like there are ghosts standing in front of it.
Couldn’t see that at first glance, but then…… spooky.
OK, so this isn’t just about blueness either, but more about this group of gulls hanging round the back of the Westmere butcher, a couple appear to be acting as look-outs (though I’m sure they are really just looking out for their own opportunity.)
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ChrisW, in reply to
Tree planting, China style. But look at that sky!
Indeed, nice sky for a backdrop to the crane. Meanwhile, a quarter of the way around the Pacific, another crane against a blue sky in Gisborne this very afternoon was handlng a bundle of trees at the inverse end of the tree-planting process - the logs quite possibly bound for China.
Great light and vivid colours thanks to the spring winds. And a high of 27, too.
Good match on that one too, light, colours, high of 26, just the seasonal inversion.
Those lovely floral pinks and willow green do a great job of camouflaging the ?power station cooling towers? - nothing like them hereabouts! -
Yes, the romance of the blue Pacific – loading logs in Gisborne today.
The bird is not your common or butcher’s shop gull, but a Caspian tern (distinctly uncommon).Lotsa blues, varied with assorted rust etc. The signal station shed looks like it’s being rammed, or perhaps hammered?
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Very summery in a blue Pacific sort of way.
More activity in the harbour and river-mouth. Even the signs are blue, though the wording is clearly ambiguous …
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Islander, in reply to
The bird is not your common or butcher’s shop gull, but a Caspian tern (distinctly uncommon).
Caspians have blackish caps & red bills – that is emphatically not a taranui
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
?power station cooling towers?
Yes. Coal fired, though, so not too scary in the "what if it goes bang?" sense, but certainly worrying in the "what is it doing to my daughter's lungs?" sense. And it's expanding. But we've got 20 million people at least to power in this city alone and nowhere near NZ's very fortunate abundance of renewables. But that park, and Beijing generally, does have plenty of PV panels sitting atop lamp posts, so it's not all bad news.
Thanks for your logs, they're helping cut down erosion, flooding, desertification and sandstorms up here.
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Islander, in reply to
es, the romance of the blue Pacific – loading logs in Gisborne today.
The bird is not your common or butcher’s shop gull, but a Caspian tern (distinctly uncommon).Caspians are relatively common in Aotearoa-NZ - I'm not sure what that gull that is and am disinclined to check. Nightie ra-
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Yes, Caspian terns are very distinctive in appearance and behaviour, but you had only a tiny image to assess there. This was the best photo of it I managed today - oddly against that extraordinarily messy background of (another) ship's gear and a fertiliser silo - so badly cluttered I think it's quite good actually! Overview -
And detail, clearly showing the black cap and (black-tipped) red bill.
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