Tag: Nature
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With ongoing in/out internet connections this weekend, I have managed to finally upload today’s shot, ‘Blue and Yellow’. Shot on a recent walk, I love walking through the bush and looking up at the leaves of trees stretching up to the sun. On a clear day, the plain background highlights the details of the tree,…
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The internet has gone down at home today, so I will take the opportunity for another mobile post. Whilst up in the old Albany village, we stopped in on the local ducks with a loaf of bread. Something I learnt new was that common ducks can swim quite well fully underwater. I have only seen…
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Just a quick mobile post for this evening. Auckland has its first rain in 2013 and my home internet is playing up. Shot at the uppermost point of Glenfield/Greenhithe, this scenic little river flows down into the Waitemata Harbour. Shot on the Olympus E-500 and edited in Gimp.
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What started as a ~1 hour walk out and about, turned into a 20km 5 1/2 hour walk today! Quite enjoyable, but it would have been better if I didn’t only have my jandals (thongs/flip-flops) on. Starting off (entirely on Auckland’s North Shore) in Eskdale Bush, I worked my way to Kaipatiki Bush, and then…
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I spotted this little guy on a leaf when out for a walk in the bush. Initially thinking it was a dragonfly, a quick read up suggests to me it is a damselfly – the difference being (well, one difference) dragonflies when at rest hold their wings perpendicular to their bodies, whilst the damselfly tucks…
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