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Thursday 23 August 2018
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Leamington Waikato New Zealand May 2015
© Michael Jeans | +64 27 496 3802 | Cambridge New Zealand | michael@michaeljeans.co.nz
Morning sky Noel Street Leamington New Zealand.
© Michael Jeans | +64 27 496 3802 | Cambridge New Zealand | michael@michaeljeans.co.nz
Time exposure (30 seconds / f11 / iso 100) just after dusk. The cherry avenue at the southern end of Shakespeare Street Leamington New Zealand.
© Michael Jeans | +64 27 496 3802 | galleries | michael@michaeljeans.co.nz
Labour party hoarding, corner Noel and Burns Street, Leamington, Cambridge, New Zealand.
© Michael Jeans | +64 27 496 3802 | galleries | michael@michaeljeans.co.nz
Magnolia Iolanthe. Frost damaged I am reliably informed! I’m experimenting with selective focus – not something I am overly used to. The design / arrangement of the out of focus branches and blooms are of interest to me here.
Lurking about the corner of Noel and Shakespeare for the past three or four days. It has just the one character on its address panel ‘2’. A bit of the travelling gnomes. If you know whose it is text or email me so it can be returned.
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Over the past sixty days I’ve been developing the Cambridge New Zealand website among other things. One of the selfish intentions of the project is to pull my own blog/website away from an at times relentless focus on my town (it’s been my town all my life) and spread my attention back to the varied and the random which have always been at the core of my image making. Not that I won’t continue to photograph here – it’s where I am.
So, beginning now and breaking with almost five years of tradition – here, I’m going to publish a series of images which have been neglected, overlooked or ignored. To kick off – I had to have a little chuckle this morning when confronted with this view from my driveway. A message of some significance given the discussions about social media and online marketing I’ve been having over the past few days.
Photo made 07:47 5/2/2011
Are you reading Abbie Jury’s Magnolia Diary? There are more photos – amongst other stuff – in the day gallery.
Tiger is our next door neighbour but treats our corner section as his own. At the moment he is bothering the nesting blackbirds on the Noel Street side of the house. The blackbirds for their part kick up an almighty fuss, when he is mooching about, which can be quite penetrating – a performance that occurs more that once a day at the moment. Rest assured the nest is well placed in a cat inaccessible part of a modest, but dense, camellia.