Posts by ChrisW
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Aotearoa One is from the same stable as Te Aurere, built more recently with low-maintenance modern materials to traditional design, very well set up mainly for inshore training and youth development. Here under sail out of Gisborne/Turanganui-a-kiwa, and returning with Te Kuri-a-Paoa/Young Nicks Head astern. She handles beautifully!
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
NZ, where the sun shines out of cow’s arses.
Wondered how long it would take :)
After 100% Pure NZ marketing, further thoughts of this inspiring image being used to sell the National Party's promised Brighter Future came to mind.
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Every one a gem, but for me, the Christian Spiritualist one has an extra something. Especially after following the link to the Te Papa collection (thanks) and find they too have it, though oddly a different print with variant name and substantially more tightly cropped. With a thumbnail bringing out that the grey silhouette of presumed demolition worker carrying plank ready for casting into the fire, appears very much as a dynamic cruciform image, while zoomed in his heat-shimmered edge is apparent. Marvellous!
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
That cow of yours Sofie - reckon it might be an image to put alongside '100% Pure' in international marketing of NZ?
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Waka of a different ilk - waka hourua Aotearoa One in Gisborne for Transit of Venus week in June last year - with carved tauihu rather different also.
The monument on the hill in the background is a memorial to those workers of the Kaiti freezing works killed in World War I - the brick building below it the last small remnant of that freezing works, demolished as an earthquake-risk in 1994. So, nice cultural links between past and present and place - the tauihu figures are wearing gumboots.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to ChrisW,
Woot woot! - goot-footed balloonMen - what a goat, what a loon ...
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to JacksonP,
Well yes, not exactly what I was thinking(!) and perhaps there would be deep suspicion these days of any goot-footed balloonMen whistling in the streets, but Yes.
And to dilute themore bloody flowers!
you could offer prizes for the first photo of Onehunga weed prickle in foot, greatest number of Owpif ...
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
surely what we need next to really illustrate summer is a foot full of Onehunga weed prickles?
I reckon that's a sign of mid-Spring, at least it's so this far from Onehunga. When the time is right I'll suggest a new Capture thread to Jackson, in Spring We'd Like a Perhaps Foot ;-)
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Dandelion (or rather Hawkweed) between toes
you've Sprung me there, or half-sprung. Yes false dandelion, Hypochaeris radicata , commonly known as catsear when not as dandelion falsely. For them mine is a land of plenty, but no Hawkweed (Hieracium spp.) sullies my doorstep.
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Whereas here's a bee that was hard at work kicking pollen around as well as slurping nectar, still hard to capture for half a mo after half a summer working its wings ragged.
And another illustration of summer - dandelion getting itself caught up in the return phase of indoor-outdoor flow.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Jos,
Bee being lazy
I'm impressed too, Jos, even though I have a particular dislike for fennel - to the extent my mind kindly blanks out memory of its name for me, 9 times out of 10 - it's the smell that does it.
But visually - not just biology, you have there a beautiful illustration of Newtonian mechanics in action. And of course that's not a lazy bee, but a busy one optimising its energy efficiency to maximise net return to the hive :-)
