Hello Mike and all
Please note corrected version of URL
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> >http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/photography/zuikoholics/recent.htm
Mike wrote
> Brian, I enjoyed your pictures. I tried to photograph the neighbor's hay
> bales last year without much sucess. I just didn't capture the scene.
> I'll try again this year as the hay season has just started here.And a a
> question about the fuchia. (I have one just like it on my deck) Are they
> native to NZ? I remember seeing them in the wild in Chile, a similar
> climate.
>
> Mike
These fuchsias are cultivars in the garden and I don't even know the species
they are derived from. Also look very similar to the one that John Lind used in
his shot showing birth and death among the flowers.
We have at least two indigenous species here, one is I think the largest
fuchsia of the world, a deciduous tree that can top 40 feet in some
circumstances - 25 feet is easy for it. And there is a little herby scrambler
with showy purple stamens in yellow-green flowers.
For the record, I very much enjoyed escorting Eva and Bernd around some of
the parts of my home-town. They are very pleasant company and of course
we had several things in common; forestry, science and OMs for a start.
I've added a few new images; Eva and Bernd as I captured them on film; try
as I might I can't get rid of the sharpening halo around their heads and still
get something like a sharp image. Maybe they are naturally saintly.
And a cloud scene that caught our attention while we were there. Sun
striking clouds being blown in from the sea, across the harbour. We were
still in drought, so the hills are very tawny-brown. That tussock grass is
never
very green anyway.
And I cropped the straw-bales to make another impression - what do you
think of this?
Brian
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