Someone really dislikes this photo.

I think it's pretty neat.

Queen St.

Queen St., Auckland.

I'm boiling potatoes.

While that's going, here's a photo.

I'm blinded.

Interestingly, I have picked two better photos to show other people and post processed them, then lost them in an accident. (I deleted them.)

So I found another two, that looks kinda similar and re-cropped them. Same flowers anyway.

This was long time coming.

And now, finally.

Mongolian Woods

An interesting historic blip:

The Beatles' song 'Norwegian Wood' is translated as 'Norwegian Forest' (as in, the woods) in Japanese. Haruki Murakami has written a novel named after the song.

I read the Korean translation of the novel, (which was titled, of course, as the 'Norwegian Forest') long before I started listening to the Beatles. And therefore for a long, long time I was very confused about the lyrics of the song. I always had pictured the story to take place in some Norwegian lumberjack's hut rather than a London flat.

Anyway, this is Mongolia. It's not all desert.

Lines and boredom.

Not false colour any more.

Rainy Town Square.

Not Auckland, obviously. This is Bhaktapur. 

Enough of city shots. I miss nature. 

Afternoon.

Right now, it's rainy Sunday afternoon, 15th of May, 2011. (I just wrote 2009 and realised that it wasn't.) This post is scheduled to go up on Friday afternoon, 20th.

This photo was taken yesterday when I walked to down town via Queen St., then walked up Symonds St. back home. It's a scene of one of the cheap-looking (but pretty damn sure not anywhere near cheap) apartments along Symonds St. 

So, this is the past and the future all at once. Standard warm/cold split toning and a grad filter on the right to lessen the bright/dark contrast.

Hump Ridge

Hump Ridge trip, October 2006.

Dhaulagiri

Dhaulagiri in the morning light. It's a peak of 8167m. Shot with my D70 and 18-70mm.

Conservation Space.

A study in textures.

I live in Auckland.

How's this for incongruity?

A Study in Purple.

False coloured, of course, because I'm too lazy to actually get any purple.

Sunset over some hill.

I think this is from the first Nepal trip. 

When I finally get off my lazy bum, I might go for a walk down town and take some photos.

CORRECTION: This is from the second Nepal trip. Shot from Namche.

Double Header Thursday

Two shots that I'm partial to.

Something Blue.

Something blue, something clichéd, something in the past immemorial. 

For a very long time.

For a very long time, this was my desktop wallpaper. 

I don't understand why.

Ngauruhoe

A photo from a night ascent of Ngauruhoe, in 2006.

Taken with a D70 and 18-70mm.