Last weekend within Auckland’s CDB I took a stroll through the ‘Art in the Dark’ light festival.
Internets been down for a week, but now its back, time to share a few images.
Art in the Dark
The Rooster of Old Albany
Up to old Albany Village for dinner this evening I caught this snap of one of the local art works.
Now down the road from the Albany Mega Mall, the old village used to be locally famous for having a mass of roosters living and walking the zone. Sadly now days none can be found. You will find ducks and a cat colony… The roosters were culled and relocated around a decade ago.
My other memory of the village, back when it was rural and the tip of the North Shore was picking for pears in the local park. Open to the public, I assume it was once an orchard.
We walked this area after dinner and I was happy to find many of the pear trees were still there and in fruit…desert!
Image wise, shot on the galaxy, edited in afterfocus.
Get Down from There
Get Down From There was an interesting steel (I think) creation that brought back memories of Where the Wild Things Are book. If you zoomed out from my photo you would see that the masked monster is actually a small child perched up upon a letterbox.
Shot in colour on the Nex, I desaturated and slightly pushed both sharpness and contrast in Gimp.
Treehouse
Another of my series of artworks from the event I attended on Sunday. I didn’t capture this artists details, but I loved the work. Not much else to say about it, but its the best (miniature) tree house I have seen!
In post processing I cropped the image for a long thin aspect, desaturated much of the colour and slightly bumped the contrast.
So many great works – I will post a few more and keep the rest in archives to pull out on a rainy day!
Black, White and Red all Over
As stated yesterday, I will post up a series of images taken from the art show I attended in Devonport on Sunday.
Today’s image, ‘Black, White and Red all Over’ (The artists actual title, not mine- Turtle Donna Sarten) was a beautiful, yet sobering piece that brings about awareness of child abuse and death in the country. As well as the Kiwi I captured on the ground (representing the next generation at risk) the tree also had a large number of Kiwi hanging from the branches (representing those past). Being made of alloy, they chimed in the wind.
Shot on the Sony Nex, I gave it the same treatment in Gimp as yesterday – essentially the lomo filter and resizing.
Another art work tomorrow!
Clothesline Sculpture
Today we attended the NZ Sculpture Onshore art even running over two weeks at Fort Takapuna in Devonport. A very windy day, when the rain and wind were not present, it was beautiful weather. Some really cool art works by various artists, I will display some more over the next week. What I failed to do for all but a few was capture the art work name and artist – if any happen to come across my blog, make a comment and I will duly recognise you!
Today’s image, or piece was a massive clothesline spanning several trees with colourful knitted works on it. Shot on the Sony Nex with the kit zoom, I got nice and close and shot wide open. In post processing using Gimp I resized and applied the ‘lomo’ filter.
More tomorrow!
Burried City
I’m fascinated by archaeology. All around the world you hear of digs where ancient ruins, cities and tombs lay. Whether it be forgotten, reclaimed by nature, or purposefully encased and locked away. If I hadn’t studied anthropology and sociology, I think I would have studies archaeology.
Today’s image is actually just a piece of art work at a central city park (a highly post processed one that that) that I snapped on my Galaxy S2 when taking a stroll through several days ago.
I wanted to create a scene where the building had been buried on a grass plane. The original of the photo is actually just next to a walkway, and behind that a main road and shops. I cropped out those items and cloned in grass – which worked OK if you don’t look too close. I then applied multiple layers and filters making the old building quite hard against its green background.
I wonder what our cities will look like a millennia from now?
Spring in the Garden
A mobile press on the run today as I am out and about on birthday surprises. Before leaving home I noticed a few of the tulip bulbs I planted in winter have finally come up, and more are following.
I went to the Auckland Art Gallery this afternoon and took some shots on the nex I will likley share tomorrow.
Thatd all for today as a 2″ keypad is not my best idea of fun to type on.
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