Found: Invisible Man photograph.

Going through a box of old photos that I found... and happened to come across this interesting one, the back has a signature something like "H.G.Wells"... I think that what other people considered to be a work of fiction, was more of a biography!

It was book week last week, so given that Zak has been doing a lot of classic science fiction lately, he decided on the invisible man.  This was the result.


Photogeeking:  4 exposures.  2 flashes.  One giving light to the room, the other lighting from the stove.  One exposure for the background, one for Zak, one for the saucepan (with the handle) and a last, unlit one for the flame of the gas burner... put together in photoshop with a Nik plugin to make it look like a wetplate camera.

Unsuspecting

Impact at a distance.

Took this one on Friday the 11th on my way home from work.

It is impressive what the sun does.

Millions of miles away, completely oblivious to us,

Yet still impacts on everything we do.

New development

There is an area of the middle of our town that is being redeveloped.  A Shopping center is gaining weight.... a lot of weight.... so it is spreading over the street, engulfing the library and enveloping another shopping center.

So here are the photos of one of the parts that will be ripped down to fit it in.  There is nothing particularly nostalgic about it, but the Photo club had a little field day there to record what it is at the moment, before it all changes and we forget.

Weekend of Chess

Zak was invited to compete in the Toowoomba Invitational Chess Tournament over the weekend.
Games got increasingly tougher as he went through, but he finished in a very respectable position.
Very proud of him!

Milford Sound.

Well, more a photo of me on a boat on Milford Sound.
It was only a few weeks ago, but feels like a very long time indeed.

Sparklers!

Playing last night on the front lawn.....
Huge fun.
These ones are straight from the camera.

There is a flash off to the side to light up the boys, and then the sparklers did the rest.

Whangarei

Pronounced with an F at the beginning

Looking out....

Lots of mountains...

Pretty sure I have never taken so many photos of mountains and clouds!  But they were everywhere!! and always awesome!!!

Going to take a while....

For me to go through the NZ photos and actually find all the ones I like!

Clan of the Cave Bear

Well, it looks like a scene from one of the books to me anyway!.

more NZ

reflection of her.

Lake Tepako

There are  couple of nasty spots on my camera sensor that I will need to clean up when I work on the photos....