Category: Michelle’s Favourites
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Orana Park – a morning at the Zoo
I spent this morning at the Orana Wildlife Park with my photo club. The highlight for me was watching the tiger being fed. What impressive animals they are. I also really like the NZ native bird display as you are right in with the birds (wood pigeons, tuis and parakeets) and they swoop past and…
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Shop Mannequins on Madras Street
For some time I’ve been thinking about photograhing mannequins – especially after being inspired by local photographer Tony Bridge’s mannequin shots. It was not my intention to leave the house tonight and photograph mannequins – it just happend. I often just park the car somewhere and wander fairly aimlessly, stopping whenever I get a moment…
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Absolutely stunning sunset!
Yesterday we had really hot and muggy weather – it got to 29 degrees celcius. When we get weather like that, it often means we are going to get a stunning sunset. And just look at what we got! At sun down it didn’t look like it was going to be much, and then the…
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Boiling Oil Cooking Fire demonstration at Lyttelton
A Christchurch Fireman demonstrating how to put out an oil cooking fire. His advice was to put the lid back on it, call the fire department. As it will take 20 minutes for an oil fire to stop burning. He also used a wet towel over the top and then place the lid on. He…
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Lake Alabaster Hollyford Fiordland
This is not anywhere near Christchurch… 🙂 I’ve been tramping in the Hollyford Valley hence the absence of posts (and due to the fact that my scheduled posts failed thanks to a WP bug). You can get to Lake Alabaster by walking for about 6 hours from the roadside entrance to the Hollyford Track. There’s…
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Rapaki Sunset
The Rapaki Track at sunset. It has been a beautiful day in Christchurch with simply stunning weather. It has been a warm still evening and lovely for walking in the hills. Hope everyone is having a great first day of 2010 and I wish you all the best for the year ahead.
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Cathedral Square – Tilt Shift
Taken from the top of the Cathedral bell tower. I’ve applied a tilt shift filter to it, which I’m starting to play around with.
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Wax Eye Feeding on Kowhai flower
This is a wax eye that I snapped this afternoon having a nice feed on some Kowhai flowers beside the bridge on Madras Street (just by Kilmore Street).
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Bare Tree by the Heathcote River
I took this photo standing from a bridge that goes over the heathcote river (you can just make out the water). It would have to be one of my favourite photos from this Autumn. The light was just lovely, and my intention was to get a shot with good bokeh (a term I’ve just learned…
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A question for you
This wall is by the Christchurch Art Gallery. I was only aware of it today after leaving the gallery (I had a look through at the Sir Miles Warren exhibition – which I highly recommend locals get along to). I’ve captured some of the answers in the gallery below. A pretty tough question for some…
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Meerkat Family Orana Wildlife Park
Mum, with her baby meerkats seen at Orana Wildlife Park. They were so cute! Dad was up a tree keeping look out. They are such interesting characters I couldn’t stop at one picture. [nggallery id=10]
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Estuary Evening Series
Tonight I drove to the Estuary (on the way to Sumner) with the intention of photographing a jetty. But I got sidetracked by the light opposite the mobile service station at Ferrymead. I did eventually get to the jetty but it was too dark, so I focused on the car lights coming across the causeway…
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