Posts by ChrisW
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Flying Shag.
Sitting shags.
Three species thereof, black, little black, and little shag (yes I know, such evocatively imaginative names!) This through my kitchen window last week. Pied shags also commonly use the perch provided (this is willow log No. 6) but it's rare enough to see three different species on it together, haven't seen all four. I caught the moment when little black in the middle felt the pressure of being eyeballed - it was gone in seconds. -
To continue the sculptural theme - Harry Holland in marble? Well, I wouldn't think this was necessarily intended as a close likeness of him. Still, an impressive 1937 monument, its rear view passed by hundreds a day walking to and fro on the path through the edge of the old Bolton Street cemetery.
And the inscription! - politicians today have no ambition. -
Capture: Wellington? Well, I Would., in reply to Hilary Stace,
Peter Fraser in bronze - here the more conventional frontal view where he doesn't seem to be leaning so far into the wind.
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Capture: Wellington? Well, I Would., in reply to Hilary Stace,
Who and where is the wooden man?
He's (Professor) WR Mcgregor, who led the campaign to stop the logging of Waipoua State Forest and its establishment as a forest sanctuary instead, finally successful in 1952. His bust carved in kauri at the splendid Kauri Museum, Matakohe in the Kaipara district.
An Aucklander very much in the real Northland, nothing to do with Wellington sorry. But the tie is a stand-out, retained in my memory bank of images.
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Wellington? Well, I Would.
Wooden tie.
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And here's the third biggest one. The line is an appreciable tourism asset, more importantly for freight in the post-peak-oil world of the rapidly approaching future. But is Government thinking approaching that future at the same pace? A decision on the line should be made this month.
Question is, which way are those points pointing for/by KiwiRail? Full steam ahead, or sidelined? -
Capture: Mama Don't Take My Lytro Camera…, in reply to Lilith __,
holy crap, that's a gradient...
Somewhat undulating on the way down, but it's a bugger getting up the other side!
This the biggest of three washouts on the Gisborne-Napier railway ... -
Lytro definitely intriguing for the close-up stuff in context, but the hand-held conventional camera's depth of field may be adequate sometimes - here showing off a spider's micro-engineered handiwork against that of the builders of the Napier-Gisborne railway line.
I'm sure the spider's will be in need of some capital maintenance after a bit of heavy rain too. -
OnPoint: Association of Community…, in reply to martinb,
http://ondemand.tv3.co.nz/The-Gruen-Transfer-January-6-Fri/tabid/59/articleID/5050/MCat/259/Default.aspxincludes discussion on astroturfing and the tobacco lobby, related to plain packaging in Aussie.
Relevant item starting at 25 mins - good stuff.
Above some branded cigarette packaging with all its appeal, seen while holiday roamin', but belongs here. The context seems very relevant, tragic really - on the foot space by 'picnic' table at the Waiotahi Domain, by the outer estuary of the Waiotahi River, eastern Bay of Plenty, one of the few and much the best pipi-gathering spot in the district, still going strong after the decades and centuries of harvest, much frequented at low tide by predominantly Maori locals.
Black white and red, kia kaha! Yeah, stick it to the man!
Freedom kills.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Lilith __,
Pleased to hear you're more smitten by the spirit of Christmas than plate tectonics in action or that other thing, Lilith.
