This is the most amazing poinsettia I have ever owned. It’s nearly July and it still has several bright red leaves. Usually this type of plant has lost all it’s red leaves and just looks manky by now – of course I am talking about ones I’ve owned, I’m not talking about this plant in general.
Today started out at the movies in St Lukes – X Men, which was great. Then I met up with a friend in Titirangi to view several photographic exhibitions.
The last exhibition we went to was at the Corban’s Estate and that one would be my favourite so far. That’s were I took the photo of the church above. I must go back there one day to photograph it properly, there’s even a heritage walk we can do.
While having coffee in Titirangi my friend pulled these two amazing old cameras out of her bag for me to look at.
It struck me later as I looked back on my day and though about the cool contrasting moments I had. The exhibitions were of modern images in really old buildings. While enjoying coffee – a relatively new thing to do – I was holding an impressively old camera which belonged to a new friend. I started out my day seeing a brand new high tech movie with an “old” friend and ended my day in an old vineyard with a new friend.
Today was the Auckland Photo Day – part of the Auckland Festival of Photography. The idea was to get out, take photos and hopefully find something worthy of entering into the competition.
The theme is… for one day only photographers are asked to capture an image which reflects their Auckland.
I got up this morning feeling awful with a head cold and decided I should probably forget the competition and stay in bed, but the friend I had organized to go with sent me a text message saying she’d meet me at 10:00, that was the push I needed to get out of bed and just “do it!”
I’m so glad I did. We decided to do one of the “Historical Walks” around Auckland City. It was a wonderful day out seeing and photographing parts of Auckland I never even knew existed. Thanks to my friend’s guide book we ended up in some amazing & fascinating places that completely made me forget about being sick and the competition and just enjoy my beloved Auckland City.
One of the highlights was a hidden oasis in front of the University Law School which amazingly has a secret natural spring water supply. Apparently the water was used hundreds of years ago by a local brewery.
But the biggest highlight was finding the Ironbank building on K Road – pictured above. I have wanted to photograph this building ever since I first saw a photo of it a couple of years ago. The building is awesome and has the most stunning lift shaft I’ve ever seen. I think this building has won architectural awards and if it hasn’t – it really should.
I’ve looked through all the photos I took today and I’m really happy with them, there are several I may enter into the competition as I can’t decide on any particular one, I wonder how many entries you can have.
This morning on the bus there was a lady sitting in front of me composing an official looking email on her big laptop. I thought this was sad that she has so much work to do and not enough time in her day to get it all done. Surely catching the bus could be a time for reading a book, playing a game, knitting or napping.
BUT THEN… she juggles her laptop precariously while trying to grab something from her bag and not poke the poor guy sitting next to her with her elbow. At last she found it – her iPad. She then got busy looking for something on her iPad and typing about it on her laptop. This required a lot of juggling between the two machines.
I stopped feeling sad at that point – she’s just showing off. The perfect ending to all this was when the guy sitting next to her got off the bus, turned to get a better look at the ridiculous person sitting next to him and gave her such a look of disgust it was beautiful.
New Horizons 