Capture: Labour Weekend: Town or Country?
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
I feel even more special in that case, Joe!
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Hebe, in reply to
Great photo(s)
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Hebe, in reply to
How kind of you! And I have had so little time I have made you wait. Email coming.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Chitons are surprisingly agile and flexible:
I meant to say, that bottom picture of the seaweed is beautiful Leigh : )
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Hebe, in reply to
Evening, Ravensbourne
I keep coming back to this picture: it evokes many good times and places: Wellington valley houses, London flats, old New Zealand villas, and Ravensbourne/Maia a couple of years ago when my boys went to school at Maia in a yurt for three weeks while we evaded earthquakes.
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Leigh Russell, in reply to
Why thank you Nora - I'm pleased you enjoy it! I have absolutely loved living so close to the beach over the last year and have written a whole bundle of articles about that, all packed with photos, and which can be accessed via their own heading / contents page: Leigh at the beach
I have enjoyed your photos too, of the silos and of rainy Dominion Road! These Capture threads are just great! (Thanks again, Jackson!)
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Hebe,
Seaweed Leigh? I have some too.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Wow, are those 'sea flowers' in that top picture?
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Hebe, in reply to
Yes. The colour is odd though -- or maybe my monitor. Those sea flowers are ET-like I reckon. I find them fascinating and repellent. Here is another of the same pool.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
maybe my monitor
I think it's just the camera has picked up all the blue : )
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Leigh Russell, in reply to
Fun! :-)
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Hebe, in reply to
It was a turquoise pool at Le Bons Bay in midsummer. One of those still, hot and crackling Peninsula days. I see the sea flowers on the beach at Sumner and Brighton occasionally -- they are rare enough to notice. Do you get them up north?
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Leigh Russell, in reply to
Those sea flowers are ET-like I reckon. I find them fascinating and repellent.
There are some near where I live south of Dunedin, and I agree with your response! I wonder why we feel that way about them? I haven’t been able to find the name of them from my usual aquatic searching site, the excellent Otago University and NZ Marine Studies Aquarium Guide but not all of the entries include photographs.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Do you get them up north?
I haven't seen them, but that doesn't mean they are not around.... I'll have to get out and scout around at midsummer : )
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I keep coming back to this picture: it evokes many good times and places: Wellington valley houses, London flats, old New Zealand villas, and Ravensbourne/Maia a couple of years ago when my boys went to school at Maia in a yurt for three weeks while we evaded earthquakes.
That was my eldest's class. Must have been a pretty cool school to come to for a medium term visit.
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the admirable Chiton...
Leigh, what wonderful beasts...
takes me back to hours of fun spent fossicking in the rock pools around Cave Rock, at Sumner...look like a Doric...
But, I can't believe that Greeks wear them, must be painful getting them off... -
Waiheke Island last summer.
Who Shot Rock Pool dwellers?
We should do one of these in the future, on both counts. ;-)
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Hebe, in reply to
That was my eldest’s class. Must have been a pretty cool school to come to for a medium term visit.
A very cool school. The boys loved it; we were all made very welcome and a parent even lent us a wonderful old house. Their teacher was great; the boys wanted to go to high school there and were peeved to find the school did not have a secondary. I have some photos of the spring festival I could email you. Did your child make the long traverse to the Hastings Olympics the year before?
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Hebe, in reply to
We should do one of these in the future, on both counts. ;-)
I will look forward to it, and book my holiday on the basis of photo-ops!
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Leigh Russell, in reply to
Hello Ian, I love your word play! Yes, Cave Rock is a memorable spot in my childhood too, but primarily for evening picnics which were always chilly - but exciting too! Sandwiches and cupcakes out of the big biscuit tin with the painted lid, followed by mountaineering sorties over the rock itself and excursions into the gloom below in the cave!
The use of the term chiton for the Roman garment seems a remote connection at best! And how to get them off, indeed! Regarding the sea creature variety, once latched onto their chosen surface they are VERY difficult to dislodge, whereas they feel rather soft, moist and tickly when moving along one's hand. :-)
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Leigh Russell, in reply to
An intriguing photo, Jackson - do you know what was going on? Rival starfish? And ah yes, rocks and rock pool dwellers rock!
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Christchurch Luxcity
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Friend's awesome electronic door.
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QEII Stadium
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Sacha, in reply to
could be an aerial shot of city. carparks, etc :)
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