Posts by ChrisW
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And how are the reflective qualities of the river you ask? Not bad I'd say - this of my first homecoming dawn with 7-sec reflection of almost the last of the waning moon, the earth-shine on the rest of its face too. Bellatrix and Betelgeuse (beautiful names!) the shoulders of Orion out to the right.
And part of a 15-sec exposure from the same fencepost a few minutes earlier, showing Aldebaran and the inverted V of Taurus above the moon, and to the left nestled within the now-bare branches of the walnut tree, Matariki/the Pleiades/Seven Sisters, the last of the moon phase signifying the end of the Matariki month.
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Welcome back
Thanks Nora. Yes, I've been away. Then took off into the sunset like this -
Leaving the lights on, but I was gone Home.
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Winter is....
An early daffodil promoting the Cancer Society, a little shyly at first -
Then flaunting it!
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Southerly: Now I Am Permitted, in reply to linger,
2009. 2001? 2004? 2007?
Accurate like a Ken Ring weather 'forecast'.
My one and a half-pai working foveas can each see 2005, also a 1 for January, so near enough your central estimate. -
Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Chris Waugh,
link to this. His photos from the cockpit are incredible.
Flashy sterile boringness I thought.
But strangely evoked these non-sterile patterns of 'lights' against the dark - half-composted feijoa leaves and related debris under the feijoa tree, erratically rummaged by black chook and lesser blackbirds, after a rather warm day and night. Quick hand-held grabs early yesterday morning in blue-sky shade. -
A few hours before, the walnut tree is busy shedding its autumn leaves, two of them caught mid-fall against the river,
and one of them a scraggly compound leaf with legs and low-speed glide performance even poorer than the pukeko’s.
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Jos,
So it's all go where you live then?
All go!? Truly hectic pace of life around here! Why just the other day - five days ago in fact - probably this same pukeko on the willow log, did that little bowing to the water thing, not narcissistically, nor to shit like shags do to lighten the load before takeoff, but about to use its legs and all body muscles to help fling itself in the air, flap like mad
and it was gone, past the miniature wind-wand, leaving the imprint of its wing-wind on the water behind it. At first I was a little disappointed I'd missed the photo of that spectacular takeoff I had to put in words here, but then I saw the bio-mimicry of that airborne pukeko again ...
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More BioMimicry, an hour earlier.
I haven't seen a pukeko wander out on the willow log when another bird is there too - this time an oddly patterned little shag is drying its wings.And a few seconds later, the pukeko adjusts its angle for the walnut foliage to consider its next move, while another non-bird flies by, drifting up on the tide.
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Another pied shag, Saturday morning on the riverbank. I call this one bio-mimicry - not all the bird-shapes are birds.
Incidentally showing I live in a natural gaslands - those bubbles and faint ripples from their abrupt arrival at the surface are from natural gas seeping from the rocks below.
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Jos,
a blend of 4 photos
Aha - perhaps I shoulda suspected that form of magic, but no ...
Those ripples could well be mesmeric.Some corresponding colour from me.
