Why can I see the chain hanging in the tree when the glasses are the right way up, but when they’re sideways all I can see is a shadow on my dashboard?

No, it's not just a focus problem.…

Yes! I loved my Spirograph. :-)

Hibiscus contrast.

And a slightly more normal shot, too.

And can't quite decide if this last one is worth posting. What the hell, might as well...

And closer up.

Nice cone coverage too Ross.

Here's a mostly two toned number

and now the video

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/9760887/Video-pokes-fun-at-Chch-road-cones

and see the lovable likely lads themselves
in the full 6-song saga…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI7ASaAA55g

*though it may have been giant fennel, Ferula communis,
a different genus…

and more – fennel holds moon

Ah, yes, but only just. I certainly do remember talk of its construction in the year or so before I left.

The Dunedin Chinese Garden may post-date your time here.

The top one is the Anglican cathedral (St whos? I forget...)? I haven't seen it from that angle, for whatever reason, but that looks like the back of its front and the spire of First Church in the background.

The second one.... Dunedin? Looks extremely Chinese from that…

Dunedin! We have heaps of old stuff! :-)

Of course. Nice shots, and glad people are still adding to this.

And that church looks worth a visit one day David. Impressive.

This old pump wheel from the Karangahake Gorge lends itself to black and white.

These three trees on Mt Managere also.

That is an amazing church. The very first time I saw it I wanted to lie flat on my back on the opposite side of Moray Place and point the camera I didn't have (poor scarfie, you see) up at it. Great photo, very well captured.

yes, I think I might have been. :-)

Thank you, Jackson. But tell me – were you travelling through a Dr Seuss book?

Both. Although Beijing is a bit blustery. I guess I didn't help myself much by going to the only shopping centre in all of China where it is easy to get a park right by the entrance....

Love your bus stop…

A church and plane
A bus stop with a view

Child's play.

chinese restaurant

intersection and house at dusk

And an intrepid explorer.

Beautiful, David! I love the boat marooned in the mud particularly.

Why thank you! And yours is beautiful. Another tiny and perfectly-kept church! Mine at Moeraki is a small immaculate form in a large and rugged landscape.

Of course I thought:
__I am a little church(no…

We probably could, but this is the end of my holy orders.

Another church, Awhitu Peninsula, 1989. Thought I’d posted these here before, but couldn’t find them. So apologies if I have.

ETA: Had to try…

My first response: scary image.

My second response: Oh, hang on, I helped my father in law put asbestos roofing tiles on what was once his sheep pen.

I'm having lots of fun trying to find the limits of what the hard- and software can do to the pictures before I turn them all to rotten custard.

old and new

cross threading

... like the purple flowers there Jos, and Chris – your black and whites are getting more and more luminous : )

With an eyrie interior.

Church at Kutarere

Stumps on Ohiwa Harbour

Like the uber-contrasty mountains.

This is the side of a building snapped from the car. It was all monochromatic to begin with.

And then I thought it was kind of fun with the contrast turned up to 11....

...and then with Picasa's pencil sketch toy on top of that.

Very high ISO, so a bit noisy. I need a faster lens.

A bit of tweaking in post.

In the tunnels under North Head...
a high ISOlation unit?

Great shot!

Indeed, love the play of light and shadow on the fern.

Another phone pic – Mud meets Sky

Burke St wharf in Thames. Now just used by terns as a convenient place to sit and chatter.

And you were right. Thanks for joining in Helen.

And pinched from The Beijing News – how not to use a crane. That happened just about 1km up the road from me.

And one of my own again – a statue,…

not all dreams!

Nicely placed question mark, but the autumn winds have finally kicked in and for once the sky actually was blue today. But thanks for the tip, I'll try darkening that blue and see what I get.

One technique would be to apply a darkening effect on the blue? of the sky then convert to black and white.

Nice, but. Conveys morning nicely : )

Busy man, Jackson's uncle : )

Like the Blanche station : )

Or, ha-ha, perhaps this silly little number....

http://youtu.be/AI2k6aseNqg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j4mfErOeqg

That's cool David. You don't often see the grain effect in digital.

'Light' relief.

Good glass you got there Jos.

three shots of my glass bin

Perhaps, but pleasanter than another active thread around here, anyway.

not quite black and white

But very nicely toned. The pinkish one, in particular, looks extremely, fragilely crystalline.

like thinking outside the square?

here's two water lilies (one L this time) – not quite black and white

Great photos people, your beach could be snow from a distance Lilith.

My garlic harvest 2010

Great to see, black and white is encouraging new Capture participants. Partial to an abstract seagull.

I got more lines.

I have roots of leeks!

Thanks for piling in there with this one Nightwrym. Nice light there : )

There's something there about the museum contractors too – not sure if they are allowed to walk – and what about the blind person's tiles, how will the blind person know to walk the convoluted route?

Must go back and set it up with people in shot!

Your accent has changed ; )

wherever they fell

Crash Test Dummy Tetris®?

a simple maze for flatlanders?

Low budget Madmen credits?

Brain drain…

Guides for the chronically disoriented?

This pic suffers from being turned to black and white, so I've left it with the yellow and red showing. Puzzled by the orientation of the figures...

(Is hakuna matata actually Swahili, as the note in Chinese at the bottom of the poster says? Apparently, yes.

It’s improving. Missing buildings are reappearing. I think the sun is buring off the fog (雾/wù) component of today’s weather (雾霾, in which the 霾(mái) is officially translated as “haze”). And fortunately my asthma’s never really been bothered by…

#badoomed

Wow Chris, it's a pea-souper. Hope not too hard to breath.

And I can make this tower block much more visible in the photo than it is in reality. On the landscape setting the camera wouldn't take this photo, and I suspect that's because it couldn't "see" the…

beautiful. tis the star here in moving (subdued) colour, including the interior:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg7M3XWi4Es

Yes, that's exactly right. Cheers Joe. We have a great fondness for Kashin round here too, with my bestest doing work for the zoo through the 90s, and spending much of our children's younger years visiting…

I thought I had the same churchlet somewhere. Early 90s.

Library lurking

St Mary's of the Angels? Surprising to see a stone church standing: more Chchch eyes.

Yes, exactly. This from near enough by, iirc.

Cute.

Nice. This from Wellington, in the 80s.