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  • Nora Leggs,

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    dallying with big bird

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Geoff Lealand, in reply to Nora Leggs,

    Run into any stray libertarians?

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs, in reply to Geoff Lealand,

    Run into any stray libertarians?

    not unless the ostrich was a libertarian in (rather flamboyant) disguise!

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs,

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    Swaying panels

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs,

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    Black frames
    red frames

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Chris Waugh,

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    Lost an ear.

    Lost a lot of things.

    Wellington • Since Jan 2007 • 2401 posts Report Reply

  • Jonathan Ganley,

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    All at sea in Grey Lynn.

    Since Dec 2006 • 234 posts Report Reply

  • Chris Waugh,

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    Lost in the cloud is a moon.

    Wellington • Since Jan 2007 • 2401 posts Report Reply

  • Jos,

    Grey Lynn looks great!

    Whakatane • Since Jan 2012 • 877 posts Report Reply

  • ChrisW,

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    Lost:
    the 29 men in the Pike River Coal mine. Today being the fourth anniversary of the second explosion, when it became apparent to all that they had all died.

    I posted on the PAS: Where nature may win thread a description of my taking this photo from my doorstep, at low tide in the early pre-dawn hours following the news, and some of my perceptions that followed –

    … the moonlight and river, the profile of the hills showing through the tree, and a scattering of lights and houses of my sector of Gisborne. [ … ] Then I see that the lights in my photo may number 29 if I were also to count the patches of reflected moonlight. Immediate sense of connection and connections, as if by fibre-optic cable - they're just out there through the glass, on my doorstep, within my community. …

    My community too, within the national community wrapped around by the never-ending high-tide wave that circulates anticlockwise around New Zealand almost twice daily.

    In that pre-Capture year, it needed a link to the photo off-site to be organised, through that ontoit guy Recordari and RB, before it could be seen by others. Now, because I can, I post it here directly on Capture, lest we forget.

    Gisborne • Since Apr 2009 • 851 posts Report Reply

  • JacksonP, in reply to ChrisW,

    I post it here directly on Capture, lest we forget.

    Thanks ChrisW.

    We shouldn't let these things pass unnoticed, as we then increase the chances for societal amnesia, and the disastrous consequences this can have.

    Auckland • Since Mar 2011 • 2450 posts Report Reply

  • ChrisW, in reply to JacksonP,

    The Dreams Lie Deeper doco on TVNZ on the key anniversary last week was a great prompt – Dave Dobbyn visiting Greymouth and the mine portal, talking with the families, writing then performing that fine work with the massive Orpheus Choir in Wellington in May – well done all round, very moving.

    Albeit that the then prominence of hope for mine re-entry and retrieving the men’s remains has been overtaken. The memorial reserve with safe access maintained to it – so it becomes as much a monument to the failure of under-regulated capitalism and its safety practices as a memorial to the lost men – seems a better prospect for the future.

    Alongside civil proceedings?
    And Andrew Little is now better placed and based to push against the Government on its regulatory failures.

    Gisborne • Since Apr 2009 • 851 posts Report Reply

  • Jonathan Ganley,

    Yet another aspect of ‘lost’ … recent news of a mysterious cache of 16mm films found in San Jose, including extensive footage shot in Hawaii, the Solomon Islands, Australia and New Zealand, all dating from 1940. So sit back and get lost in the fuzzy but vivid Kodachrome world of ‘The Scenic Playground Of The Pacific’.

    Since Dec 2006 • 234 posts Report Reply

  • ChrisW,

    Thanks Jonathan, what a treasure!
    Each segment full of interesting fragments, some that are timeless, much that is of its age but still seeming thoroughly familiar to me from aspects of continuity with the late1950s-60s diminishing since, but extending well beyond my memories to my parents' generation.

    The itinerary was certainly non-linear, so some good surprises like Waikaremoana magnicently framed through the windows of Lake House as was at the beginning of the second segment. Many other gems, like the "1940 World's Fair" in Wellington (sic, NZ Centennial Exhibition) in full colour. Definitely worth repeat viewings.

    Gisborne • Since Apr 2009 • 851 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to ,

    not something the system can do - you may need to flip and re-upload it yourself

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • ChrisW, in reply to ,

    Fine photo when up-right, but even then I reckon that Buzzy Bee will find she was confused by the unfamiliar perspective, those marshmallows are bigger than she thought, eyes too big for her tummy and all that.

    Gisborne • Since Apr 2009 • 851 posts Report Reply

  • Chris Waugh,

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    This was in the yard of my daughter's kindy, but it seems to have ditched the slide it was attached to, hopped off the stand it was on, leapt over the kindy wall, and scooted down to the shelter of palm tree.

    Wellington • Since Jan 2007 • 2401 posts Report Reply

  • JacksonP, in reply to ,

    Yes, apparently they can. :-)

    Auckland • Since Mar 2011 • 2450 posts Report Reply

  • Jonathan Ganley, in reply to ChrisW,

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    Many other gems, like the “1940 World’s Fair” in Wellington (sic, NZ Centennial Exhibition) in full colour.

    (Centennial Tower, New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Wellington, at night. Deste, Eileen, 1908-1986 : Collection of prints and negatives. Ref: 1/2-004305-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23020295 )

    The buildings did have that ’World Of Tomorrow’ look about them.

    Since Dec 2006 • 234 posts Report Reply

  • Joe Wylie, in reply to Jonathan Ganley,

    The buildings did have that ’World Of Tomorrow’ look about them.

    Wonderful stuff. There's a bit of the Centennial Exhibition near the end of the Wairoa to Wellington video in this remarkable find.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report Reply

  • Joe Wylie, in reply to Joe Wylie,

    Oops, sorry, already spotted. Thanks Jonathan :)

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report Reply

  • Chris Waugh,

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    "Look Daddy!" The Wee One cried out on the way to kindy. And she ran off to investigate how that little old house she used to play in has taken a tumble.

    Wellington • Since Jan 2007 • 2401 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs,

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    Found

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Chris Waugh,

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    Lost behind the Great Firewall. "Jump the wall software", the big, blue characters proclaim. Some of the smaller writing is too small for me to read clearly, but the second row of white characters at the top say "understand the real world". And yet, it was left lying there....

    Wellington • Since Jan 2007 • 2401 posts Report Reply

  • Chris Waugh,

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    On the way home from my Last Lesson Ever (at this school, at least...)

    Wellington • Since Jan 2007 • 2401 posts Report Reply

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