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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime

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  • Joe Wylie,

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    Technically Summer.
    On the so-called Forgotten World Highway, Taranaki, about ten days ago.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report Reply

  • BenWilson, in reply to Lilith __,

    But why...

    Well the area seems to be well bird shitted, so it's possibly a "scarecrow" of sorts. Although I understood that owls actually infuriated, rather than scared, other birds, so perhaps that explains all the poop.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 10657 posts Report Reply

  • BenWilson,

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    This shot gave me a buzz. In the museum shop.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 10657 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs, in reply to Paul Williams,

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    some frangipani? Beautifully fragrant

    Nice, great colour….

    Goes well with Cecilia’s sunset : )

    I felt really pleased with this picture, till I got home and saw the Fly…. but I guess that's summer...

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs,

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    Remuera lives

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs,

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    Dashing through the mall.... only went in for milk....

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Islander, in reply to BenWilson,

    <q>Although I understood that owls actually infuriated, rather than scared, other birds, so perhaps that explains all the poop.

    Daylight birds will mob owls (both koukou & German) - but not always at all. Neither owl is large or conspicuously 'eared'. I had a nesting blackbird and a koukou (ruru outside of the south) share adjacent roosts in my Cox's Orange apple tree...

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Danielle,

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    OK, so this is neither out nor about, and I have the photography skills of a gnat, but it is Christmassy! And weird. It's from a bag of Christmas tree decorations from my childhood and is, I suppose, a reindeer? Or someone's crazed anthropomorphised 70s cartoon character version of a reindeer, anyway. It's on our tree now and I stare at it quite a lot in fond consternation.

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report Reply

  • Joe Wylie, in reply to Danielle,

    Got to be Japanese, very Osamu Tezuka. Love those frosty antlers.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report Reply

  • Lilith __, in reply to Islander,

    I sat at the bus stop this morning hoping I might get a shot of a seagull sitting on the ersatz owl. But the gulls aren't quite that heedless of it. :-)

    Dunedin • Since Jul 2010 • 3895 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs, in reply to Danielle,

    photography skills of a gnat

    Way better than a gnat! That'd make a good card : )

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs, in reply to Lilith __,

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    hoping I might get a shot of a seagull sitting on the ersatz owl

    For comparison purposes…..

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs,

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    Nora's pinny

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel, in reply to Nora Leggs,

    For comparison purposes….

    there'll be owl to pay when that book
    goes back to the library...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Jackie Clark,

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    First days of holidays always involve a beach but usually not a human oriented one. So here’s a few of Ruby and her friend, Jessie, this morning at Kakamatua – a bit along from Cornwallis.

    Mt Eden, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 3136 posts Report Reply

  • Jackie Clark,

    And while we're at it, here's a game of Ever Decreasing Circles Until the Girl Child Falls Over. No children were harmed in the making of this video, and one of the women who's laughing is the mother of said child. That's how you know it's a dog beach.

    Mt Eden, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 3136 posts Report Reply

  • Cecelia, in reply to JacksonP,

    We hope to spend some time around that area after Christmas.

    If you have the luck to have a high tide and a good sunset at Orewa, you might be able to take some interesting pics of kids diving off the platform by the bridge. I couldn't quite capture it.

    Hibiscus Coast • Since Apr 2008 • 559 posts Report Reply

  • Cecelia, in reply to Joe Wylie,

    Quintessential back country North Island NZ

    Hibiscus Coast • Since Apr 2008 • 559 posts Report Reply

  • Cecelia, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

    Great pun!

    Hibiscus Coast • Since Apr 2008 • 559 posts Report Reply

  • Cecelia, in reply to Jackie Clark,

    Beautiful beach and happy doggies

    Hibiscus Coast • Since Apr 2008 • 559 posts Report Reply

  • Joe Wylie, in reply to Cecelia,

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    Quintessential back country North Island NZ

    Thanks Cecelia, though never having been through there before I found it really distinctive. It's the area where Vincent Ward's Vigil was filmed, with Alun Bollinger's gorgeous cinematography.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report Reply

  • Cecelia, in reply to Joe Wylie,

    I didn't know that but now that I look back ...

    Hibiscus Coast • Since Apr 2008 • 559 posts Report Reply

  • Cecelia,

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    This was Red Beach today ...

    Hibiscus Coast • Since Apr 2008 • 559 posts Report Reply

  • Hebe, in reply to Jackie Clark,

    here’s a game of Ever Decreasing Circles

    That's a sheep/cattle dog trick I believe; they are herding. Our old dog was insanely hard to walk on the beach with because he would herd us all until he was tripping up someone; tighter and tighter circles.

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report Reply

  • Geoff Lealand, in reply to Joe Wylie,

    My old stamping grounds (born in New Plymouth, reared in Hawera). Ronald Hugh Morrison country too. As a boy, we used to go in search in such river valleys for the head of a murdered and be-headed local girl, which was rumoured to be found there.

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report Reply

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