Inosculated Tree Trunks In The Waitakere Ranges

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A few weeks ago, a small group of us went into the Waitakere Ranges for an almost 12 kilometre half day bush walk along the Marguerite Track, Home Track, Winstone Track and Kauri Grove Track.

As you can expect, besides lots of mud, we can across a lot of native trees, plants and the odd bird. But, the most interesting site on that day was these inosculated (two trees growing together) tree trunks. 

I tried to capture them from the bush floor all the way up to the tree tops using the panorama setting on an iPhone 4S.

Flame Lily Edited Using Photoshop History Brush

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A while back, I posted a photo of this A Flame Lily that it took on an outing to the Domboshawa Caves in Zimbabwe just over two years ago. Over the weekend I was working on a web project where this photo can in useful. The effect I was looking for was to have the flame lily in colour and the rest of the photo in black and white or in a much darker tone. I thought this was going to be a difficult task but thanks to Photoshop's history brush it was simple!

What are your thoughts of my first attempt at using Photoshop's History Brush?

Sunset From Omana Beach | Maraetai | Auckland

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Now and then my wife and I will randomly make spur of the moment decision whilst driving around. On this occassion we decided to go for a drive to Maraetai which is just outside of Auckland. We ended up at Omana beach and got there just in time to watch the sunset.

If you enlarge the photo and look close enough you will notice the Auckland city skyline on the horizon to the left.

Which of the two photos do you like best?

Cockle Shell After Shell at Cockle Bay

Pin It Now! Taking a walk along the beach from Sandspit Yacht Club to Cockle Bay you find yourself walking on nothing but cockle shells for a large part of it. I guess this is why they call that area Cockle Bay.

A Flame Lily

Pin It Now! I was in Zimbabwe a few months ago and happened to be there at a time when Flame Lily’s were blooming. This flower is so simple and has basic colours but there was something about it that just captivated me.

Hollow Tree - Orongorongo Track, Rimutaka Forest

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At the weekend I went through the Rimutaka Forest on a short 5km walk with my family and a couple of friends. This was something different from the day to day suburban life that we live and it was good to experience all the different sights and sounds nature has to offer. One of the more interesting things was the hollow tree we came across on the Orongorongo track.

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Footstep in the Sand

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I was at the beach the other day with my wife and daughter. My wife left a footprint in the sand and I decided to take a photo of it.

Steaming Ponds at Huka Falls Prawn Park

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This is a photo of some of the ponds at the Huka Falls Prawn Park in Taupo which is New Zealand’s only prawn park. They breed and grow prawns using the waste geothermal heat from the geothermal power station next door hence the steam coming from the pool.

Autumn Is Here

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Autumn-Fall in Upper Hutt, originally uploaded by gerald.n.

Just about everywhere you go, you can’t help but notice the leaves are starting to change colour and there are splashes of yellow, gold and red here and there. The photo’s here were taken on a street (Clyma Street, Elderslea, Upper Hutt) just around the corner from my work place and there was just something about the yellow leaves that caught my attention every time I drove by and I just had to take a photo. The onset of the change in colours means a change in temperature and that has already started to drop pretty quickly.

Sunset Over the Cook Strait, Wellington

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Photo of a sunset over the Cook Strait taken from The Esplanade, Owhiro Bay, Wellington