Mainly West of Queen Street - seen through my lens
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’.…
Bright Colours in Onehunga
This mural graces a wall at the back of the Onehunga Library. It is accompanied by a large explanatory panel (in the same colours), describing it as reflecting “the cultural diversity and growth within the Onehunga district”.…
Ruru (Jeremy Shirley)
This is one of the murals painted by Jeremy Shirley in this year’s “All Fresco” event of the K-Road Business Association. Sitting in somewhat cramped quarters, but looking out with piercing eyes, this is a portrait of a morepork (ruru, ninox novaeseelandiae), New Zealand’s only owl species.…
Hereford Street Mural
The Ponsonby water reservoir spans across a whole block between Hereford Street and Ponsonby Road – a great opportunity for mural art. This is the Hereford Street front: from a distance you notice the shape of a sea creature, but as you come closer, the image resolves into a network of houses joined by ladders and roads.…
Hine (Owen Dippie, 2015)
A recent work by Owen Dippie, created during the All Fresco weekend of the Karangahape Business Association. Showing the head of a woman (hine = girl, woman in Māori) with traditional tā moko, the Māori chin tattoo.…
Kowhai Butterflies (Kate Millington 2015)
What used to be a bare expanse of a concrete retaining wall has been transformed into a cheerful scene of butterflies, constructed from elements of the kowhai tree: flowers, leaves and seedpods. Designed by Kate Millington, painted with Nigel Roberts.…
Knucklebones (Elliot Francis Stewart)
The end of Minnie Street, Eden Terrace, is defined by roads (Ian McKinnon Drive, New North Road connector) and the retaining walls which hold them up. Surrounded by green, Lot 23 stands by itself, one of its walls decorated with this large mural by Elliot Francis Stewart “Knucklebones”.…
Avondale Athletics (Doug Ford)
The club room of Avondale Athletics next to Eastdale Reserve, Avondale. Painted by Doug Ford.
More murals at Oakland Daily Photo.
Avondale Athletics (Doug Ford)
Avondale Athletics (Doug Ford)
Te Henga Dune Convenience
Suppose you are in the middle of nowhere on a sand dune like the one shown in yesterday’s post. And suppose nature calls. Then you will be relieved to find this place (just to the right of where the second image yesterday was taken).…
Moonlight Cat (Erin Forsyth, 2014)
Seen in Mercury Lane, Auckland Central, opposite Cross Street.
More murals at Oakland Daily Photo.…
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