Capture: Labour Weekend: Town or Country?
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Leigh Russell, in reply to
This is one of my late father’s slides from a box labelled “Hoar Frost”
Hi David, that image is a memorable one! I'm guessing it may have been taken somewhere in Central Otago? One of the excellent things I've found about old slides is that they hold their colour well - most of them anyway. I had some of my own father's scanned, from back in the seventies and the definition and colour was perfect. And some others that had got a bit grimy cleaned up perfectly - Photo Warehouse (Christchurch) has done this sort of thing for me wonderfully well. I have done a little of this sort of thing and know how much time, work and accuracy it takes to do that sort of thing well - argh! Hats off to you!
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
and back to birds…
I know this is out of focus but it was over a fence in a paddock across a road. I still like the wee one so….
as was this pukeko, until....
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
pukeko
nice, and what elegant wings and undercarriage that pukeko has.
saw a pukeko on the playing field below AK boys grammar - no idea what it was doing down there!
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Islander, in reply to
no idea what it was doing down there!
With pukeko, given their proclivities, you *really* dont want to ask! But they are quite good flyers-
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And to round up my labour weekend one of these buggers bit me 3 times! Got him back though, squished.
Still, glad it wasn't this one on t'others jacket
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Lilith __, in reply to
Sea squirt: what an apt name. Them being an animal makes the little horrors even creepier. That pink bald-cat look, yukyukyuk.
Funny, I find them quite beautiful! You sometimes find them washed up on the beach, dead and bleached.
Relatedly, some people make the most marvelous brassy-sounding instruments out of bull kelp stipes. Here is one:
More info on bull kelp:
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
That second spider looks like an NZ tunnel web. Closely related to the Oz funnel web, but fortunately harmless to humans. They're supposed to prey on garden snails, emerging from their lair to grab them by the slimy foot.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
With pukeko, given their proclivities, you *really* dont want to ask!
This was a family group but the were running in opposite directions and hiding from the camera. Here is more out of focus.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Yep, think so although this one was definitely brighter than your example. Gives a fright but as I'm learning they are all pretty harmless. I got a bit of a rash with my bites off the Trite Planiceps. I think it got caught in my singlet and then squashed as I felt it only to survive through the night into the morning by which time it had crawled down my neck and embedded itself near my shoulder. Poor thing really. It bit for defence against my itching. Well it shouldn't have been there .... to be honest it may have survived as I brushed it off without checking it's state. And then it disappeared....
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Your spider might have fared better if it had had some sort of protective clothing - like this bee with knee pads (or bee pads)...
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Islander, in reply to
Or leetle pollenbaskets!
Sorry about the spider episode Sofie- I love them, but they dont like being confined in any way- -
Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Sorry about the spider episode Sofie- I love them,
I’ll bear that in mind for future captures . :)
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Hebe,
Spiders! I'm out of here. Let me know when it's safe to come back.
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Let me know when it’s safe to come back.
Here you go.
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David Hood, in reply to
I haven’t been able to find the name of them from my usual aquatic searching site, the excellent Otago University and NZ Marine Studies Aquarium Guide but not all of the entries include photographs.
To be honest, there has been a little bit of a data entry botch on this one in the Aquarium guide, it is listed with the Scientific name of Keao and the Maori name of Pyura Pachydermatina. But they are doing some data entry tidying up of the contents at the moment, so I would expect it will be corrected fairly soon.
The guide is a series of static web pages generated from information held in a database, because back in the day it was thought handy to be able to make completely local copies on CD for schools (ie back in the days before reliable broadband). I know this because I did the technical setup of the database, and by coincidence was doing data conversion work involving it this evening.
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Julian Melville, in reply to
Heh Leigh - the secret is that there's also a card full of photos that just look like a cloudy bunch of islands, various tui's bums and empty branches. Those just happened to be the ones where it all came together.
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David Hood, in reply to
Hi David, that image is a memorable one! I’m guessing it may have been taken somewhere in Central Otago?
Yes, definitely Central, but beyond that I'm not entirely sure. I scanned in about 400 slides this week (with many more to go) and many of them were a bit "that's a lovely landscape picture, but I have no context for when or where".
My impression is that the colour can be a little uneven, but it seems to depend on the film or development process. I am pretty confident with the computer techniques for restoring the colour, so for the moment just concentrating of getting them all scanned in as 1200 dpi tiffs (I will then fix them up individually as needed). In fact, the earlier hoar frost photo was while I was still experimenting with the scanner settings. Here is one from when I repeated the scans, not having the scanner correct anything then adjusting things afterwards myself.
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Hebe, in reply to
Nice whites. I have my father’s slide collection and want to scan them in the best possible quality as some are great artefact photos. What are you you using? Any tips?
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Julian Melville, in reply to
Wow David, those look fantastic. I've got a ton of my grandfather's old slides to scan but it's slow going indeed. Loads of European landmarks from the 50's and 60's when the tourists could get quite a bit closer than you can today :)
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Hebe, in reply to
Tree.
Thanks. I don't do spiders. Or snakes. Or mice. Or pickled beetroot.
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Leigh Russell, in reply to
Yes David, I'm sure you're right about the unevenness of colours. I've looked back over some of mine just now, but a whole different and better story than with colour negatives, which seem to have a much shorter life even when they have been carefully stored. The one I've included here is one my dad took from our top balcony in 1970, using a big square format of about 2 by 2 inches, I forget what its called - wonderful subtlety of colour still in those transparencies... The view is out over the Christchurch estuary and Pegasus Bay.
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Lilith __, in reply to
wonderful subtlety of colour
Very delicate range of tones, too. Well-exposed. :-)
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Islander, in reply to
Or pickled beetroot
AAwwww-
my cheese (3 kinds!) pickled beetroot, 3 kinds of herbs & onion toasted sandwiches are world-famous (er, in the whanau...) -
Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
I'd try one ;) but then again we like mixed pickles eh?
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Islander, in reply to
Hey YESSS!
Will send over a loaf of my home-made bread, Oamaru cheezus, & some of Mary's relish next time I'm in Oamaru (before end of this month-) - love to all the SSSs
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