A glorious way to be dead

There are times when you should ask questions, times when you should try to understand, times when you need to get to the bottom of the way and wherefore. All those reasonable, rational times. This isn’t one of them. Not at all. What a wonderful, magnificent and glorious way to be dead.    

Taniwha

The taniwha (pronounced tah-nee-fah) are wondrous watery demons in Maori lore, sometimes in the form of spirits, others as reptiles or dragonlike. Sometimes fiercely dangerous, others protective of an iwi (tribe). This fellow rises out of the earth at the edge of the carpark at Goat Island. I assume that since it is a marine

Gannet at rest

How beautiful is that?  

Basking cormorant

I do hope I’m not becoming a bit of a bore with all this bird photography… I blame it on the 70-200mm lens. Yeah, I always liked photographing them, but they were always small in the frame and you couldn’t really see all the detail in their feathers. But now… I am fascinated… my camera

Seagull in Seaweed

Working on some new techniques to get my images as sharp as they can be… and I was going for the full detail in the seaweed and the gull… Pretty good, though there’s still room for improvement. And… it’s a pretty nice gull. In some pretty cool seaweed…

Joyful

  Another snap from the pride parade… amazing how quickly things fade and memories begin to soften…

Final Stretch

It’s a technicolour sport and on a sunny day, almost blindingly so… but nothing more technicolour than those brief seconds of the actual race when everything seems just a little bit more alive…

The Year of the Snake

Don’t usually post photos of the Lantern Festival here in Auckland. I always go and always bring my gear, but when I get home, the photos just don’t wow me – so this year I set out to get some different photos, something you don’t see all the time… I think I managed it a

Hula Tree

It was a bit like been transported to the Namibian Desert, even if it was nothing like the desert… And some nice Hawaiian music would have been nice. Oh and while we’re at it – a luau. And a nice cold beer…

Thistle

Went on a bird hunt this afternoon. Did not find many despite the location being renowned for its birdlife…Instead – cam across these shaggy ladies dancing their hearts out.