WORLDWIDE PHOTO WEEK: Part 751 - Around my Neighborhood

At the other end of the scale, from my home I have a grandstand view of the clearing of native bush to create another subdivision of houses. NZ has had around 100,000 citizens, permanent residents and essential workers migrate back here since the start of COVID. Many of them come to Auckland as the centre of commerce in NZ, and many of them have lots of money. That has created a huge degree of inflation, with the median house price heading for $1m! There is massive in-fill with many single family dwellings being replaced by multiple town houses or apartments, and virgin bush is taking a hammering. It is sad for me as the bush was full of life - we had a wonderful melodic dawn chorus each morning that is now stilled.
Still on the theme of using old gear, this was the Canon EOS D60 (not 60D) circa 2003 @ 6MP, with the even older 28-135 IS USM lens.

joayne wrote in post #19201447
Looks like you have a new pet!

Oh god. I hope not!

Tronhard wrote in post #19201521
Yesterday I went for a walk in the NZ bush, which is very thick and, in my area, still dominated by the few survivors of the huge Kauri trees (tallest 51m high, 15m girth) that once proliferated but were harvested en masse for their fantastic wood. Only a few remain in reserve areas and those are being threatened by a disease called Kauri Dieback, a sort of rot that gets into their roots and is easily spread by the feet of animals, obviously including us. There is a reserve nearby that has special shoe cleaning areas to sanitize them so we can still walk the paths to enjoy these wonderful trees.

I took my oldest camera with me ('cos I'm weird like that) just to see if it would still produce some decent photos. This was the venerable Canon PowerShot G1, circa 2000, boasting a massive 3MP! The images I shot are of the bark of the Kauri, showing how the light creates wonderful colourful sculptures from the bark's texture.

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I admired those threes when I was in NZ quite a few years back.. I read about art that was created with the wood from the stumps and roots of the trees that had been harvested so quickly and heavily in the late 19th century.. They are so very majestic.

joayne wrote in post #19201572
I admired those threes when I was in NZ quite a few years back.. I read about art that was created with the wood from the stumps and roots of the trees that had been harvested so quickly and heavily in the late 19th century.. They are so very majestic.

I'm glad you got to enjoy them! So sad that disease is threatening them now, and other trees that you would likely recogonize - the Pohutukawa are threatened by another infection too. So COVID is not our only challenge...

On my walk around my neighbourhood there's a trainstation just up the road - here's the 2:57 to Britomart arriving exactly on time.
No-one getting off, or on so departed exactly on time too!

Hi Joseph:
Nice IR shot, if I am not mistaken!

Tronhard wrote in post #19201990
Hi Joseph:
Nice IR shot, if I am not mistaken!

thanks Trevor, yes that's one from the modified M6.
Must say my enthusiasm for "normal" photography has been sorely lacking lately - not sure it it's the situation of the last year or what.
At least if I go for a walk with a camera of any description it's a good thing. How's yourself?

So my neighborhood is starting to POP with color and new life... Spring in the Desert!
Happy that we have not yet reached beyond 87°F/30°C and we are expecting rain on Wednesday (A big event here :rolleyes
We've had a most pleasant winter..

Here, spring is not in sight yet. Temps are supposed to be 20F tomorrow (with a wind chill of 0F). But yesterday the temps were in the 40s and we had a very pleasant walk at one of the many trails close by - Rhode Island is so small that the whole state is pretty much in our neighborhood

And we did see something very interesting along the walk. Will definitely have to revisit in the spring.

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joayne wrote in post #19202588

Wow. Love this one, Jo!

^^ My second favorite "macro" the 100-400mk2

joayne wrote in post #19202588

lovely colour! nicely done

Another walk today - looked at this one in B&W but decided I liked it better in colour:

NEW THEME

joeseph wrote in post #19202788
Another walk today - looked at this one in B&W but decided I liked it better in colour:

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This was so confusing to me - I couldn't figure out the perspective because the street/curb are perfectly parallel to the bottom of the frame, yet things still looked distorted. . Then I realized that the verticals are out of plumb. . So that means that you must have held the camera at an off-level angle, right?

Sorry if I sound critical - that is not my intention. . I like the image, but just want to understand it better, because the geometry is confusing my eyes and my brain.


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