Tangled

1 - A few photos with the 105mm VR macro lens. This lens shows an interesting bokeh/ blur aesthetic, somewhat smoother than last week's 50mm with Pigeon (smoothness is highly desirable among bokeh aficionados), and yet rendering edges within the blur that add a bit of character and definition to the background elements.


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Decompositional Methods

1 - just messing about with curves and layers and things


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Darkness Comes Quickly Here

1 - The Fern Ball conveniently backlit by the moon


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Retrospective Nieces

1 - a couple of older photos I stumbled across, Stacy at Caleb's Christening/Baptism


2 - ...and Emily (the one having the thought) and Natasha from October '05

Sell Your Soul

1 - the last (and probably my favourite) from the Sunday walk to work series. The pithy slogan sprayed on the door seemed particularly apt. It escapes me how the chain, gloves, and faucet could be related, but you can make up your own story for that one.


2 - sometimes I wonder if the university is simply a machine for transforming sugar and caffeine into research articles, but perhaps I'm getting cynical!

Window'd Vistas

1 - more from what turned out to be quite a productive half hour walk to work last weekend...


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4 - a curious collection of inhabitants

Sculptural Oddness

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4 - so is this where old digital cameras go?

Pigeon, etc

1 - Pigeon on the move. Note the curiously busy bokeh (out of focus blur) courtesy of the 50mm's simple optics...


2 - no parking here


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Latent Extensity

Arctic weather and excessive work conspired against my usual weekend photographic endeavours, so in sheer frustration I put the 50mm on the camera, and captured a few random photos on my Sunday walk in to work. Here are 3 explorations of dimensionality to start the week...


1 - the fern'd sphere suspended over Civic Square


2 - composition around a cross motif using the conveniently interesting 2nd front door to the apartment building. The horizontal axis of the cross "...represents the path from birth to death, beginning to end, and linear time. This axis represents life on earth as a binary, linear process- life to death, beginning to end, and the dual nature of human existence evidenced by our symmetrical shapes: left and right, male and female, good and evil."


3 - detail (there's that cross again) of a decidedly solid and 2 dimensional mural outside one of the art shops in Ghuznee St.

Prowling for Compositions and Mice

1 - this 10mm wideangle photo of Abby in the garden (from early June) polished up surprisingly well...

Honours Students Beginning of Trimester

1 - the Honours students had a sort of beginning of trimester drinks thing at the Thistle Inn on Friday, feel free to click here to see the gallery (14 photos).

Evening Light

1 - Just a couple of Wellington-ish scenes from Sunday (can you tell I'm running out of weekend photos?)


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HMS Monmouth - The Black Duke

1 - The Type 23 Frigate HMS Monmouth stopped by Wellington over the weekend. You can see the 4.5in gun near the bow, and Harpoon missile launchers just under the bridge


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3 - Presumably a Westland Lynx Helicopter


4 - Note the crewman standing beside the 30mm Oerlikon cannon


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Tree Tentacles

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Seeking Cephalopods

1 - Chiara (with a glass on her head) in earnest contemplation of a flight to Australia, and communion with Wallabies, Octopi, and a great deal more besides...

A Little Bit Not So Real

1 - a short ramble around the lesser known parts of Wellington's CBD yielded these pics, and others...


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