Nau Mai, Haere Mai Ki
… Henderson. A big mural has gone up recently along Alderman Drive, Henderson, at the corner with Great North Road: Welcome, welcome to Henderson!
It is signed “Kakano Youth Art” and “Unitec BCE 2015”.…
Mainly West of Queen Street - seen through my lens
Month: June 2015 (Page 1 of 3)
A Bowl of Soup for Nepal
That was the theme of yesterday’s fundraiser by the Titirangi Potters Club at the monthly Titirangi Market. Not only was there a range of delicious soups – but you got to keep the bowl. Over the past weeks, the club had been busy making bowls (and plates, so that people like myself could take home a load of home baked biscuits), with all proceeds going to the Himalayan Trust‘s Rebuild Appeal.…
Odd One Out
A gull among the pigeons.…
Flower Stalks
I think they are what is left of the flowering stalks of an echium plant – inconspicuous most times, but the low morning sun lifted them up out of the dark background. Forest Hill Road, Waiatarua.
For more black and white images check out Dragonstar’s Weekend in Black and White.…
Transit Cloud (Gregor Kregar 2015)
This work by Gregor Kregar consists of four cloud-like forms arranged between Totara Health and the McCrae Way carpark in New Lynn’s Merchant Quarter. It illuminates a narrow alleyway leading from the library to the New Lynn Train Station.…
Red Mower, Long Shadows
After what was the coldest night so far (frost in some sheltered places) a mower takes to the green fields (and the shadows of the trees) at Avondale’s Eastdale Reserve.
Frosted
Rongo-Ma-Tane (Whare Thompson)
Carved by master carver Whare Thompson in collaboration with Maori studies students from Henderson High School. Rongo-Ma-Tane, the Maori God of cultivated food, carved from Hinuera stone, and Haumie Tike Tike, the Maori God of uncultivated food, carved from totara.…
Saddleback Song (Charles & Janine Williams)
A mural in Poynton Terrace by Charles and Janine Williams, created in the 2014 All Fresco Festival (K-road Business Association). This bird is native to New Zealand, and major conservation efforts have taken place to bring its conservation status from ‘rare and endangered’ to ‘at risk – recovering’.…
Titirangi in the Mist
The name ‘Titirangi’ is often translated as “Fringe of Heaven” — and on Saturday, barely a day before the solstice, that fringe hung deep into the top of Titirangi. Mist and rain being the order of the day.…
Finishing Touches
The Bunnings Warehouse at the corner of Titirangi and Great North Roads is going to open soon. These guys wanted to have their picture taken as I walked past with a camera. Done in a flash, and on they went, finishing the planting along Titirangi Road.…
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