Capture: Got the blues
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I managed to catch some blue sky this morning.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
what a lovely calming image!
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Jos,
Nice blues, the stilt shot especially
I played with a glass vase today
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ChrisW, in reply to
Seeing stars: I noticed the stars in the Norfolk pines for the first time not long ago
As well as stars when seen from that angle, young ones are topped by a cross when seen more side-on or from a distance. This one from my doorstep though 300 m away, framed by leafless walnut branchlets in August. The stimulus to take this particular photo might have been the stripy blue sky, but look at the way the Norfolk pine is doing its part to hold it up!
I understand that the cross on these trees was seen as an attractive feature by missionaries so brought to the Bay of Islands early on (1820s?) There’s a secular one at least, planted by the Busbys in the 1830s in the Treaty grounds at Waitangi. So I like it there’s a pair of young ones by the monument marking the site of William Colenso’s ill-fated 1850s mission station at another Waitangi, by the mouth of the Ngaruroro River here with Cape Kidnappers beyond, and that these had strikingly tall crosses on top in February last year.
Each new whorl of six branches starts by making a smaller cross.
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Enjoying all these blues.
We went for an over-nighter at Orere Pt camping ground. Sunset swim for the last day of daylight saving, then up at sparrow fart for first light.
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Duck blue.
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Visualising young Norfolk pine tops as crosses really ‘struck home’ to me a few years ago. First this three-dimensional cross on a church dome at an active 1600-year-old Syriac Christian monastery in southeastern Turkey, where crosses and churches are rather uncommon. (But there’s something of a match to the cross-star dual character of the Norfolk top.)
Then two weeks later, western Crete where multi-crossed churches are common, and Norfolk pines (all no more than 25-30 years old) even more so. Here a pair symmetrically matching the two-towered church – not by chance are they commonly planted by churches. This at Maleme the focal point of where the NZ troops fought in WWII. The Norfolks so strongly calling of home and those connections – I consider them honorary native NZers now.
International blue skies bonus, even if not up to local standards.
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Seems like I’m scraping the bottom of the blue barrel now…
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False alarm
Blue pond in strange surround
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Blue buildings, blue sky
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At the entrance to the citadel of Victoria, known by its old name Rabat by islanders, on the island of Gozo, Malta, in 2008.
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And here's a bit of Valletta harbour on Malta with both blue sky and blue Mediterranean
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This morning I drove past a deep blue and very still Lake Taupo contrasting with a dramatic blue sky and purpley distant mountains, all strikingly juxtaposed with the bleached out lake surrounds (it is very, very dry in central NZ). But sadly no camera.
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This is fun. Discovering all these pics I never did much with from years ago. I've now done a panorama of Valletta harbour, with the combined blues of sky and sea.
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Jos,
Those are amazing Nora!
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
What – the bottoms of the barrels??!
Enjoying ChrisW and Bruce Buckman's Mediterranean diversion and thinking must pull the scanner out.
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Blue-tiful Brighton, this afternoon.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Blue-tiful Brighton
Blue-tiful indeed! The sky looks painted in the top picture : )
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A bit of blue, but a lot of mirage, just for Lilith. From Cheltenham Beach. Tamaki Drive can't be seen at all, the whole cliffline disappears into the sea. And check out the left-most yacht. It was a scorching hot, humid day, hence the sad lack of blue in the sky.
ETA: Mind you, given those cliffs are probably Ladies Bay, it's not surprising Tamaki Drive can't be seen, since it's to the right of the shot :-(
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Lilith __, in reply to
A mirage to call one's own, why thank you Ben! :-)
And thanks, Nora.
What varied and unexpected delights in this thread! -
One of those China moments... smog-blue sky, massive hole where a row of restaurants was not so long ago, cement still damp on that new fence.
And this morning, a frigid norwester, but a beautiful sky.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
a frigid norwester, but a beautiful sky
nice... magnolias look so good against blue sky...
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Alderman Islands, Jan 2013
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Aldermans again, in the faaar distance, playing with panorama mode on iphone
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