That is a lovely baroque cloudscape

What I happen to be using is an oldish (2005) Epsom Perfection 4870 (but that is only really because I happen to have access to it). It is a flatbed scanner with a light you can put on in the lid, so you…

AAwwww-
my cheese (3 kinds!) pickled beetroot, 3 kinds of herbs & onion toasted sandwiches are world-famous (er, in the whanau...)

Very delicate range of tones, too. Well-exposed. :-)

Yes, definitely Central, but beyond that I'm not entirely sure. I scanned in about 400 slides this week (with many more to go) and many of them were a bit "that's…

To be honest, there has been a little bit of a data entry botch on this…

Here you go.
Tree.

I’ll bear that in mind for future captures . :)

This was a family group but the were running in opposite directions and hiding from the camera. Here is more out of focus.

Funny, I find them quite beautiful! You sometimes find them washed up on the beach, dead and bleached.

Relatedly, some people make the most marvelous brassy-sounding instruments out of…

Still, glad it wasn't this one on t'others jacket

With pukeko, given their proclivities, you *really* dont want to ask! But they are quite good flyers-

nice, and what elegant wings and undercarriage that pukeko has.

saw a pukeko on the playing field below AK boys grammar – no idea what it was doing down there!

I know this is out of focus but it was over a fence in a paddock across a road. I still like the wee one so….

as was this pukeko, until....

Hi David, that image is a memorable one! I'm guessing it may have been taken somewhere in Central Otago? One of the excellent things I've found about old slides is that they hold their colour well…

Probably not far wrong! At least you can generally see to the bottom of a rock pool : )

This could be a euphemism for something?

But I'd expect it to be big in Australia. Even the cats are the size of medium dogs over there....

Talk of using ‘scungy boys’ for bait piqued my curiosity, so I had to ask

It would. They look gross too. I am beginning to imagine forests of creepiness beneath…

Learning more every day!! I'll have to go on a sea squire hunt.

NB: seasquirts of one kind or another are found in very many coastal environs...…

Sea squirts!? Who names these things?

And sorry, it’s back to Shags. This chap appears to be wearing a bubble hat… a bit fuzzy from cropping.

Auckland looks pretty spesh with that light! :-)

No – he wasn't a Steiner boy all his life, transferred there at intermediate school after a bad experience at the school we started him at.

Sea tulips , I think. Despite their appearance, not plants at all but a type of sea squirt .

Who Shot Rock Pool dwellers?

We should do one of these in the future, on both counts. ;-)

look like a Doric...
But, I can't believe that Greeks wear them, must be painful getting them off...

That was…

I haven't seen them, but that doesn't mean they are not around.... I'll have to get out and scout around at midsummer : )

There are some near where I live south of Dunedin, and I agree with your response! I wonder why we feel that way about them? I haven’t been able to find the name of them from my…

I think it's just the camera has picked up all the blue : )

That's a beauty. :)

Might be just perusing.... not enough time!!!

There's only more day left for Paper Pirates so I'd recommend you whittle…

Here’s a couple of extras from Silo yesterday.

Blue Silo
Rusty silo pipe
Well lit night nets – looks to me like some carefully arranged stage set – enter stage right....

Rolled up, in a long carboard tube of some sort? Though I'd hand-deliver to Newmarket to be safe. Nice work.

Rats, yuk yuk yuk. I am not only terrified, paranoid and phobic , I just plain cant stand the critters and..
Hebe, can you email me an address to send your pongas. Possibly 2 species. Haven't figured out which they are yet but also one…

That shot really is a great photo Sim.

You could sell them. Or if you're feeling really generous, go stick them on a wall somewhere. A big wall.
;-)

I'm sending the one in the photo to an exhibition displaying only photocopied/cheap print images. I still haven't figured out how to mail the A0 photo, so…

Stairing into the abyss
(with the drain's nadir)

Lap dance

Rough crossing...

hmmm, it's gonna be a long
short week, methinks...

;- )

Thanks Jolisa. The simple pleasures are the best, eh?

That top one particularly is very Truman Show!

And whiskery : )

Silo ladder
Rusty slipway
Workman-ship

Lovely, looks like the NZ Labour Day weather rule doesn’t apply. I had to make do with fake sunshine…..

Actually, there isn't much that is real in any of these three!

Thanks Nora, I trust that didn't break any magician's code. As novice, I'm a sucker for such tidbits.

My Uncle Bill used to have white rats – intelligent cleanly adaptive beings. He trained a pair to sit in a child’s toy rickshaw while a second pair drew it…they seemed to enjoy it (they took turns at the play, anyway.)*

I respect the intelligence of…

Nice one Andre. Thanks for posting, and the associated story. Long time since I ventured to Raglan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkXNEmtf9tk

Yes, I just played Alannah Myles on PAS, in a non-ironic manner.

Mostly.

Debatable! Using a snappy-cam I don't have to worry about either of those : ) Having said that I used the 'Sunset' function on the picture of the Bazaar Shop to pick up more of the reds so that the picture was closer to what I was seeing.

( sorry Lou... )

Hi Jackson, I'm pleased they interest you. I'm always a bit surprised when others share my enthusiasm for unusual subjects! You might enjoy my story about mussels too, but I won't go on any further!

Jackie, that's a charming photo of you all. :-)

Cheers Mark. I really appreciate the comment. I'm constantly amazed, inspired, humbled... etc, myself.

And now we learn about a chiton recovery programme! Awesome.

Thanks Leigh.

I was at Armageddon this weekend revelling in geekdom.

Thanks for joining in Sim. We like having new contributors, particularly ones with an eye for capturing the world at large.

Like many nerds, geeks, cosplayers, bronies, trekkies and trekkers – I was at Armageddon this weekend revelling in geekdom.

Here's mud in your eye, like a big pizza pie!

A paper wasp readying her nest. Building, as it were.

Could be a nice twist for the harbour region's marketing
conflating caldera and zones
while smelling Madeira and scones
a tiny pizza paradise...

Tried to get some more. Needed to get the ZOOMG lens out.

Nite all, thanks for kicking this off so nicely.

I need to go there. We should do another trip one day, with some more tweeps. You could take tours. No, seriously. ;-)

Great crepuscular rays out the eyes! ;-)

Wonderful.

Ours weren't quite that dramatic, although the sky-face was a bit scary.