Patterns
Having fun with the curves and shadows of the New Lynn substation.
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June 10, 2017
May 30, 2017
April 1, 2016
Bird Track
Bird Track
Ripples in the sand on Karekare beach.
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February 13, 2016
Mudflats
Mudflats
Patterns in the receding tide at Taumanu Reserve
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October 26, 2015
October 23, 2015
Expanding Artwork
Expanding Artwork
In a downstairs window at Te Uru: there was a supply of paper and scissors, table and chairs. Use it to cut and fold 3D shapes, and leave them in a tray. A good fairy would then come (armed with sticky tape) and create a display. Here just two details.
Expanding Artwork
September 10, 2015
In the NorthWest
Weaving Patterns
Next to Westgate, Massey, there are huge developments going on. As I was driving through, I came across these interesting retaining walls with weaving patterns around a filtration pond – eye catching!
In the middle of the picture above is Rick, cutting paving material to the correct thickness to insert into the footpath at the intersection.
Rick at Work
Detail of the Wall
June 15, 2015
May 16, 2015
Firewood
Firewood
The other day I took delivery of a load of firewood (not a moment too soon as it turned out, since our heat pump died shortly after). This was one of the pieces: the bark had come off, and the work of the larvae of bark beetles was showing clearly.
This is how I think it works: A bark beetle carves out a ‘brood gallery’ through the bark (two of them visible here), laying eggs along the way. Eggs hatch, larvae eat, forming these food galleries, and when they have matured, they pupate in those cosy nests at the end of their corridor. When the time comes they find their way out through the bark and the cycle repeats.
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March 28, 2015
Drains
At the Lower Huia Dam
These drains are part of the Lower Huia Dam, one of two earth dams in the Waitakere Ranges (providing water for the city of Auckland). The construction of this dam was completed in 1971. Of the five reservoirs in the Waitakeres, this one has the largest capacity.
(The other earth dam is the Lower Nihotupu dam, and the remaining three dams in the Waitakeres are concrete dams.)