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Category: Photos
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Today marked Auckland’s Round The Bays fun run – NZ’s biggest participant run. Unfortunately a recent bug left me not feeling up to competing this year (I think my first non-participate in 7 years!). However, I went down to watch the start all the same. First off, just before the gun is the wheelchair participants.…
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Another beautiful Saturday morning. I went for a quick stroll around Auckland’s Upper Harbour area before starting on chores. Battery on 4% (poor planning there) I still managed to get plenty of shots. Sony Nex with kit 18-55mm
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One of my less than visually stunning images for this Friday. Thos who have followed me long enough might recall a photo titled ‘The Proposal‘. Its all getting mighty close now here in the household, so close that table maps and lists of names are falling into order. A wonderful combination of excitedness and ‘so…
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‘Just for fun’ I threw together a home designed and built Ukulele over the last few weekends. Influenced by cigar box uke’s and guitars, I took their essential design, but worked from scratch. The straight angled body and sound holes give it enough lack of beauty that its been named Frankenstein’s Ukulele – although to…
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We are Mankind. We came from planet Earth, and we built this base, called Alpha, to learn more about space. But human error blasted this Moon out of the Earth’s orbit. And so, we have traveled the Universe searching for a place to live. Now, we can no longer live here, and we go to…