Wednesday Wow: A Heart Among Giant Desire
Found in my regular trawl through the WOW! flickr image pool.
I grew up as a bushwalker (hiker/rambler for you foreign types). I’ve never been to somewhere with trees quite like this, but it brings back fond memories of walks through quiet, wild spaces.
Spring in my garden
The blossom feeding parrot is a lorikeet. The tree is a Pohutukawa. Related posts: Sunday Garden Spring Garden Saturday Sunday garden post Spring Friday garden blogging
Weekend Wibble: improbable chums
Is there anything more aww-inspiring than unlikely pairs of animal friends? You’ve seen the dog nursing tiger cubs, now check out this macaque who has befriended a white pigeon. The Daily Mail reports that the baby monkey was found abandoned at only 12 weeks of age. He remained dispirited in the zoo until he met [...]
Wednesday Wow: Calanais At Dusk
The next time I go to the UK and France I’d rather like to do a tour of various stone circles, menhirs, dolmens – any megaliths really – of Britain and Brittany.
Another linkfest: the Headcold edition
Taken in the front garden this morning Cory Doctorow has a piece in the Guardian about how the movie studio quest for a perfect copy protection system is doomed to fail. DRM is supposed to force those unwilling to pay into buying, rather than nicking, their media – but once the cheapskates can search for [...]
Spring stunner: Lavender honey
baroquestar has a new camera, and spring has sprung Down Under. Check it out.
Belated Wednesday Wow: Go your way, I go mine
I got a good tip from the headphones guy in the hi-fi store last week (who is also a photographer, of course): when travelling, check out a city’s name in the Flickr tags and see what people like to photograph when there: you’ll get a lot more to see than just the tourist bureau picture postcards. What a brilliant idea.
Spring
DSC_0004, originally uploaded by tigitogs. Did I mention I got a new camera? One of the first photos. Related posts: Dutch ice yachting in Monnickendam Photo of the Day: Happy dewdrop sunday Cicada in trouble Wednesday Wow: Hot Pink ! ironlupins
Hippo birdie two ewes
It’s my good friend ohmykozy’s birthday tomorrow (and mine as well). She was out tonight, as was I, watching the eclipse (separately). She took her jazzy camera along, and if you click on the thumbnail below you can have a look at one of her shots. Tomorrow there should be gazillions of excellent shots of [...]
Monday Magic
Today’s magic shot – dappled tree shadows during a solar eclipse. The tiny spaces between the leaves of a tree create a multiplicity of camera obscura images on the ground. This photos was taken by Nils van der Burg in Madrid, 2005. I recall seeing a similar effect in the 1999 eclipse, but was cameraless [...]
Sea-foam
This picture has generated some talkback radio discussion today: Image Source: Daily Telegraph (photo by Bill Counsell) The picture was taken at Yamba. The sea foam extends 50m across the beach and into the sea from the Surf Lifesavers club house, as shown in the photo below. Reports from locals are that they haven’t seen [...]
Wednesday morning soapblogging
I have a few pretties to share with you. Tie Dye Trance. This is my first five-colour swirl: purple, red, pink, orange, and blue. Making these was a whirl of arms and jugs and spoons, mixing and colouring and scenting and pouring and swirling and pouring and swirling and pouring and swirling before the soap [...]
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