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IOTW: Reclining nude

Published by Bruce on December 11, 2006 in Photography. 0 responses

This shot was taken at Dune 45 in the Namib desert, where the heat can play tricks with your mind.
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IOTW: Frosty morning

Published by Bruce on November 26, 2006 in Photography. 0 responses

While we anticipate warmer weather here in New Zealand, England is preparing for winter's bite. This picture was taken in late November last year during an early morning walk through the Chatsworth Estate in the Peak District of Derbyshire. The Peak District is a great place to bear witness to the change of seasons. But this year the run-up to Christmas will be decidedly different. Will our eyes miss driving to and from work with headlamps on? Will our ears miss waking to the sound of ice being scraped from windshields? Will our toes miss the feel of having no feeling? Somehow I don't think so.
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IOTW: Tui

Published by Bruce on November 20, 2006 in Photography. 0 responses

The tui is a New Zealand native bird with a distinctive white throat tuft and song (it's also a local beer). It can be readily seen and heard in Wellington's Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, where the population has increased owing to the exclusion of predators. It can be difficult to get a decent photograph of these birds as they feed on fruit, nectar, and insects up in the trees. They ordinarily seem skittish, dashing away at altitude with a whirring noise resulting from a notch in the wing feathers. I shot around 75 images of tui before I had the sheer luck to be near a low stand of flax as a pair landed to feed. Look at the load of pollen he has on his beak!
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IOTW: Leaders wear silk jackets

Published by Bruce on October 29, 2006 in Photography. 0 responses

What do Vladimir Putin, George Bush, and Helen Clark all have in common? Answer: they have all been subject to Photoshop treatment and hang on the wall at Silk Factory No. 1 in China's industrial city of Suzhou. But why is New Zealand's Prime Minister hung between the presumably more influential leaders of Russia and the USA? How many people passing through the factory shop even know who she is? Apparently Clark is an "old friend" of the Chinese President, having been a strong supporter of China's entry into the WTO.
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IOTW: The World visits Wellington

Published by Bruce on October 23, 2006 in Photography. 3 responses

It's not often that you can view The World from the quayside. The World is a floating apartment block for the mobile super-rich, and made port in Wellington on October 18. The 165 "ocean residences" (apartments, studio apartments, and studios) can be purchased or rented for serious money, accommodating 150 to 200 individuals within the 12 decks and almost 200m length. A closed community, resident-owners buy into luxury, lifestyle, security, the company of like-funded people, and the attention of 250 servants crew members during a continuous worldwide itinerary.
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IOTW: Imitation v inspiration

Published by Bruce on October 16, 2006 in Photography. 0 responses

Sometimes it surely happens by chance that two logos are as alike as peas in a pod. At other times (and I've seen several examples on the 'net) it is equally clear that there is something more than chance at work. During our recent trip to China we noted a few shop logos that looked remarkably familiar, despite a zero probability that we had encountered the shop displaying it before. An imitation is intended to copy or at least closely simulate a design. It is the antithesis of design by inspiration, which implies a certain measure of creativity, innovation and imagination—without stretching all the way to originality and inventiveness. Inspiration is a valuable artistic tool for those suffering from a depletion of vision, but can readily be taken too far. Here is a shop logo that may have been conceived due to lack of inventiveness, sheer laziness, or maybe the constraints of time or budget. But I suspect it may have been re-engineered from a famous logo for reasons of brand association. It makes good marketing sense: a vaguely familiar or trustworthy logo may draw in customers otherwise confused by the visual cacophony of a busy street. You decide: imitation or inspiration?
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