Tag: Sony Nex 5N

  • A shot from above. Looking down I snapped the autumn tree, its colours beaming out from both the shadows and grey city surrounding. Shot on the Nex 5N with the 55-210mm lens. In Gimp I desaturated the blue tones, giving the city buildings the mono tone. More shots from above tomorrow.

  • Same as yesterday, some more interesting facts: The fastest butterflies fly at 19kph(12mph) Many butterflies can taste with their feet to test suitability for laying eggs. Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)  have been found Butterflies like to drink from mushy slices of banana, oranges and watermelon  

  • There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar. I love not man the less, but Nature more. Lord Byron    

  • Heading out to pick up some bits and pieces we passed through Greenhithe in Auckland norther region. Taking a quick stroll around one of the local parks, I captured a shot of our cities CBD from a distance. Shot on the Sony Nex, once home I opened up in Gimp and cropped the aspect ratio…

  • “If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?  We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.” –   Jack Handey A shot from the back yard today. Our property is surrounded in essentially untended trees. Ive been trying to tend to them. In order to open up…