Sunset at Piha Beach and Other Stuff from My Camera

Here in Auckland it’s summer, summer, summer. My back’s been burned twice already, despite sunblock with SPF 45 and higher. But it’s alright, soon it’ll already be cold at night and we’ll have to spin the electric meter at night. Although, who knows. They say that you can’t get away from global warming nowadays and the climate will inevitably change. Last year, for example, the summer here was the longest and driest in the past eighteen years. And this year, not long ago, a previously unseen temperature of +32° was registered. That’s just some casual sand in the wheels of those who think that it’s heaven here.

We bought a refrigerator from this farmer in the marvelous town Drury. The apparatus spent eight months in a garage, and ants infested it. They froze pretty quickly. Also, on the farm, there’s a huge sandbox with nonchalantly scattered children’s toys. I didn’t see any children, but I did see over five cats who use the structure not for building sand castles.

There is a large metal drum on Mount Eden that points and indicates the distance to famous cities of the world.

In Shakespeare Regional Park, while chasing after the frisbee, I bloodied up the bottom of my foot with a seashell. Instead of sand, the beach there has mollusk seashell ridges, various scallops.

Almost every time that I go to the shop on the corner for milk, this cardboard guy who offers ice cream with a maniac’s smile scares me.

I’ll talk about the boxers soon.

On one very slow intersection, the local rascality earns a little side money by washing windows. It should be noted that they’re polite and fun people. I apologized in advance to the hero of the photograph below since nobody carries cash around, seeing as credit cards are accepted everywhere. But this did not stop him from wiping the windshield just in case, asking about my camera and posing a little bit. I did not get a chance to ask for his e-mail, the light turned green.

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New Zealand!!! Tribute to Flight of the Conchords Posters

My tribute to tourism posters, as seen in Murray’s office in Flight of the Conchords.

New Zealand… Cool!!!

New Zealand… Rocks!!!

New Zealand. It’s Not Going Anywhere

New Zealand, Take Your Mom

New Zealand. Why Not?

New Zealand. Like Lord of The Rings

New Zealand. Ewe Should Come

New Zealand. Come Visit Us Down Underer

New Zealand. Don’t Expect Too Much

New Zealand. Why Travel the World When You Can Visit Newtown

Wellington, it’s not a recreation from the show like the others, anyway. The slogan is, amazingly, real. Complete with lack of a question mark.

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A Post about Ice Peaks and the Human Insignificance

Here, among slopes and peaks of the Southern Alps, the place of humans in the universe is as noticeable as anywhere. A pompous beginning, but I’ll try to show what I mean using simple examples.

Zoom, zoom, zoom. All the photos are clickable.

This is how the river that flows from the Tasman Glacier, which lies on the footstep of the highest part of the Southern Island of New Zealand, looks from an airplane. On Google Maps satellite photos you can see that the dusty cobalt current tinges the ocean with a turquoise color at the mouth next to Christchurch. The same waters are the cause for the formation of Lake Pukaki, which I really love for amazing photographic material.

I have already been at the source of this nameless river several times. One of the favored places in New Zealand for hipster repose from city life.

Look to the right: thawed waters from the glacier form a lake with black icebergs.

On the left, under a layer of volcanic rocks, lies the Tasman Glacier. In the distance the peaks of the Southern New Zealand Alps.

I will allow myself a small trick. Before scrolling down, look at the boulder in the left corner of the photo and estimate its size in meters.

And now zoom, zoom, zoom.

There were barely enough megapixels on my old Canon 400D to document the tourist who decided to take a walk on the rocky surface of the glacier. The photo is clickable. You can distinguish the colors of the clothes.

Returning to our starting points, a panorama to reinforce the effect.

But that is not all. Let’s turn to our left and see what is happening on the lake at the moment.

Do you notice anything?

Let’s try looking a little closer.

Still a little closer. Do you see the whitish chunk of ice in the background?

There is an inflatable motor boat with tourists “hiding” behind it.

That’s how we live. We return to the car by a treaded trail to come back to the habitual workday rhythm in a couple of days.

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