Kiwi Water Tank

Water tanks are often positioned right behind the house, but as long as it is attached to a big roof, it works. This one was by what I believe used to be a farm building, possibly an apple orchard storage, but is now Motueka Sculptor Tim Wraight's Sealevel Studio. One day I hope to do a series of photos of his work, but last weekend, we found this tui bird instead.

Usually the tanks are black, green or light lime green, but we saw a fancy accommodation under construction with three tanks painted the same color as the buildings. This is in response to Alice's post of August 29.

Spring Transformation

Central School, Nile Street, this week. Compare with this.

"Reef Knot" - Another Controvercial Scupture

This is probably the first piece of public art you will see as you enter Nelson; it is at the same Millers Acre complex as the Vessel. The work is also by Grant Palliser.

The controversy was brought to the fore by boaties, who claimed the knot in the work was not the named knot. It was the first time I noticed Letters to the Editor in The Nelson Mail were accompanied by graphics.

Cormorant

This is from the one of the bridges on Maitai River, look left, right, straight ahead, behind, left, right, straight ahead, behind.

Speaking of birds, I mentioned tuis in my November 7 post; yesterday we saw a small one on a flax plant, so Meg shot a couple (of pics) here.

Big Hand

Church, Give Way sign, a big hand. Make of it what you will. Also by Grant Palliser.

Rocks on Sticks

Here is a sculpture on the walkway along Maitai River.

From Nelson Public Art and Sculpture Walks map: "High Flyers", created by Grant Palliser as a city millennium commission and erected in 2002, responds to the energy of the rapids in this stretch of the Maitai River. The five kinetic stainless steel poles reflect the tones of this environment and the aluminum 'boulders' echo the river stones, symbolizing opportunities, goals and achievements in the 'river of life'.

And that's /ˌælyəˈmɪniəm/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[al-yuh-min-ee-uhm], not /əˈlumənəm/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[uh-loo-muh-nuhm] in Kiwi Land.

Here's a close up taken back in September, and have a look at Rita's Dallas sculpture. Meg used to scream whenever she detected copyrights violation, but today she's "amused at the creative serendipity". I think she's been trying to use this word in every other sentence since yesterday.

No, Pooch, No

Found in the mural on the car park side of the "Home of the Nelson Building Society Giants" building in Stoke. Nelson Giants is a pretty good team in the New Zealand basketball league and we had many players in the Tall Blacks at the World Cup in Indianapolis a few years ago, where we were fourth coming out of nowhere. Sadly, in the Cup this year in Japan the Tall Blacks didn't do so well.

Oh Red One...

I went to shoot the signs in front of this used car place, but I thought there might be a few of you who'd like this better. (Ben, you're drooling again.) Here are some more shop pics.

Ben informs me today is our 100th. Thank you for your comments and friendships.

Outside a Cafe Window

This was taken last summer. I took this from inside the Park Cafe at Marahau, at the start of the Abel Tasman National Park walk. It is a monochrome 35mm film scanned directly. The flax flowers are waiting for native birds to come; we often find tuis on these flaxes.

12 years ago today, we came to New Zealand, for me to study English and for Meg to have a leisurely life, for eight months. I can't imagine living anywhere else now, and Meg continues to have a leisurely life.

Kaikoura Range

Snowy mountain and pebbled beach. Here at Kaikoura, this is my favourite view.
This is the end of series from our little trip late last month.

Kaikoura Community Theater Inc

This old theatre stands right front of the beach in Kaikoura.

Ohau Point Seal Colony, Marlborough

From the lookout at State Highway 1 between Blenheim and Kaikoura.

Salt Works, Marlborough

We're going east for the next few days. Past Blenheim towards Kaikoura on Highway 1 is the salt works. This salt works produces natural sea salt in those ponds, and each pond (different stages) has different colors. Another shot.

There is a new New Zealand DP from beautiful Kapiti Coast. Please have a look.

Peter Jackson Interview

This is not Nelson, nor Daily and really not Photo, but I thought some of you might be interested in a Peter Jackson interview on National Radio aired last Monday. It lasts 45 minutes.

On-demand link will stay live until early Monday 6 November, (roughly early Monday in Asia, Sunday evening in Europe, and sometime around Sunday lunch time in the Americas.) For podcast, please scroll down a bit to"Feature Guest - Peter Jackson"; I'm not sure how long this link will stay.