Capture: The Night Time Is The Right Time
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Lilith __, in reply to
If it’s any comfort, I have a fluffy coat I wear in the winter that makes me look like the Abominable Snowperson.
Well not really. ;)
It's true no-one has yet taken a really blurry photo of me in it. ;-)
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JacksonP, in reply to
Should I resuscitate the Two Tales thread or where do you think I should put them?
On the Two Tales thread is fine, or if you think they warrant a full post, email me. Gudrun may have some more to add also. When was that implosion again?
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Sacha, in reply to
if the wall could take all that noise energy and turn it into a pretty light show on the quiet side
but imagine the impact on those St Mary's Bay property values that scored them a see-thru wall in the first place. Other Ak citizens get concrete.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Should I resuscitate the Two Tales thread
Definitely she said without waiting for Jackson. One should always resuscitate immediately. The window of opportunity becomes less with every passing moment….
oh ok no waiting . JP is in the house...
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Lilith __, in reply to
On the Two Tales thread is fine, or if you think they warrant a full post, email me. Gudrun may have some more to add also. When was that implosion again?
OK, I’m still sorting them, might flick you an email and see what you think. Implosion’s on the 5th.
A sad German couple approached me yesterday clutching a tourist map and asking how they could get to the Cathedral. “We knew it was bad,” they said, “but this is terrible , everything is closed and gone!”
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Jonathan Ganley, in reply to
"Sky Tower, it's always in the shot" ... as someone said at North Wharf last night. Actually I think it was me. This shot from Federal St, once again under the influence of Fairy Lights.
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JacksonP, in reply to
“Sky Tower, it’s always in the shot” … as someone said at North Wharf last night.
I moved the tripod to get it out of this shot. Another angle on the wind sculpture, covered here in an earlier post.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Another angle on the wind sculpture
came out well Jackson
here's the viaduct bridge on the foggy nite.
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Gudrun Gisela, in reply to
Sunday the 5th of August at 8 am, implosion of ZB building
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Gudrun Gisela, in reply to
Full marks for this one.
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Braved the wind and rain to go and look at the other light shows round Britomart tonight. Not so much to see down there...
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Hebe, in reply to
So, yesterday I went to see the Michael Parekowhai bulls. Today’s the last chance to see them here in Chch,
Please do put up those photos Lilith. I have driven past almost every day, wanting to stop and touch the bulls and not making the time to do so. Yesterday or today was to have been the day; instead most of yesterday at the emergency doctor's with my young man.
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Hebe, in reply to
Purdy. I could float in there.
Love Jackson's and Nora's projections. I need a city arty visit somewhere soon. Rubble is losing its fascination; I want beauty.
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Lilith __, in reply to
Please do put up those photos Lilith. I have driven past almost every day, wanting to stop and touch the bulls and not making the time to do so. Yesterday or today was to have been the day; instead most of yesterday at the emergency doctor’s with my young man.
OK. :-) At this stage I'm wondering how I pressed the shutter button so many times...digital photography is all about sorting and organising! Last time Windows counted, there were over 60,000 image files on this machine.
I dimly remember my days of using film, where every time I pressed the button I knew I was spending $1. Or $2 for some slide film! Feeling the pressure to get it right with the minimum of frames, and the suspense of waiting to see if I had.Hope your boy's all right.
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Hebe, in reply to
I’m wondering how I pressed the shutter button so many times
Those clicks are so addictive...just one more.
Boy was lucky: hit his thumb with an axe while chopping wood. Miraculously still has the thumb, and no bones broken. Painful and spectacularly gory, but he's more concerned about not being able to play bagpipes for a couple of weeks. I, having been the grown up when I really wanted to throw up, am recovering. -
JacksonP, in reply to
I, having been the grown up when I really wanted to throw up, am recovering.
Probably shouldn't tell these stories, but that reminds me of a certain time when I was having the latest round of stitches checked and the doctor said;
"Hop off the bed would you. It seems someone needs it more than you do."
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Hebe, in reply to
I understand. Only having had a couple of years working parttime in a hospital theatre while at university kept me my feet this time. I believe hospital birthing units keep "father kits" on standby for otherwise uneventful labours.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Rubble is losing its fascination; I want beauty.
I’m sure there will be beauty growing out of the rubble, just takes time. But in the meantime this sort of beauty is always around….
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And by the way – I don’t think Auckland is a particularly beautiful city in itself – but with darkness and lights and rain there is always a pocket that can look beautiful and evoke a more beautiful city….
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Nice rain, not like what we've been getting up here. But was Stanley Kubrick a prophet? Because that looks really quite 2001: A Space Odyssey. I half expect the next pic to be of John Banks throwing sticks in the air.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
I half expect the next pic to be of John Banks throwing sticks in the air.
Now that's a challenge!
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Lilith __, in reply to
Painful and spectacularly gory
Oh dear. Glad he's OK!! And you, of course. I think the "view from the foot of the bed" is often more traumatising than being in it.
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Islander, in reply to
I think the “view from the foot of the bed” is often more traumatising than being in it.
Indeedy!
Been in hospital once, with a suspected appendicitis attack.
Released myself next morning (because it was 31 Aug afterall!) & hitched back to big O.
But o dear goodness! When one of my nevvies was badly smashed up in a no-fault motorbike accident, it was phonetrees and family rushing in from all over the motu and nerves stretched from here to Tuesday for weeks....And so- thus - for other family hospital stuff...I hope to continue my extremely low-key hospital presence until dead. Once is enough eh?
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Indeedy!Been in hospital once, with a suspected appendicitis attack.
I had a problem once when my appendix was removed. I told the Doc at my hospital bedside that I was feeling fine and needed to go back to school. I leapt out of the bed to prove my ability.....
Say no more except my gut fell through my arse.I'll never forget my 12 year old experience :) -
Islander, in reply to
Fuck o dear!
Entirely out of hospitals – one of my brothers left high school at 17 to be a fencing contractor (our uncle Bill had already taught him the game.) One of his early clients was a waddling low-country Canterbury farmer who knew everything
-how to dig post hole how to place posts etcetcect-
he volunteered to show my brother how to do it-
and, as my brother puts it, “While demonstrating, his arse fell out.”
As his GP wife (of much later on) interpreted, “He had a bowel prolapse?”
“Nah. His arse fell out. And we only had a section of fencing & 2 posts to carry
him out on.”
Pause.
“And the bugger never paid us.”
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