Tuesday, August 2, 2011

City Protest

This is the second graphical anti privatisation graffiti I have seen in the city.

saving the forest one sip of coffee at a time

here more so than ever is a case for situational or even just lazy blindness, i have walked past these "street-art" posters or images or whatever you want to call them, but have never stopped to read the detail. so there I went rushing again.. that is another story completely, i decided today i will take a pic and then post here and then as an after thought I can read what is on the poster afterwards on the picture. Nonetheless I still dont know what is on the poster.. well i do and i know what it is about, but i have not actually had a look at the exact detail on the poster. I subscribe this to wikigooglitiss (it is a sAd phenomena that we have all developed oVer the last few years where we have the inability to remember things because we can just google it or Wiki it to confirm what we think/thought or dont know, yes it makes us more informed about things but only superficially, sad but true).

Oh and the second silly station pic, me now moving to a new part of the planet have discovered the amazing thing called seasonal changes ... WOW is all i can say...  The day becomes about 2 and a bit minutes longer every day.. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=264 this may seem like an absolutely arb
fact, but Pretoria where I used to reside only changes by about 1 minute a day.. but it just seems so much more noticeable here :-) My point being .. nothing really

back to the pic, what I wanted to say was .. soon I can cycle to the station and back without my super bright headlamp ... aesh what a pleasure ..

Save the forest

Save the forest by vogon M
Save the forest, a photo by vogon M on Flickr.

Save the forest

Station getting lighter

Station getting lighter by vogon M
Station getting lighter, a photo by vogon M on Flickr.

Station getting lighter

Monday, August 1, 2011

And the brightly coloured HDR image ..

yes the image of the vegetable seller at the market, in bright HDR.. shocking and not photography, but it was done because it showed something less than obvious to you, but to us a point of situational blindness that we all have.

What is interesting is that i had never before seen or in actual fact bought these Asian greens, but we have now absorbed them into our diet and now buy Pok Choi (spelling is ambiguous and incorrect) and include it as part of our diet.

The mode and method of buying food has also changed and we have become blind to this in less than a couple of months.  We don't always see what we see everyday as anything strange other than the first time we see it. 

a little on the previous few pics

some of these pics seem meaningless, which in general terms they are

the blue sky with the yellow shows an insane invader (invasive plant) here in kiwilandia, it looks amazing, but the "Gorse" a native of Scotland has taken over huge sections of the island. Amazingly this plant is now becoming threatened in its home land .. it is such a pretty flower but creates an impenetrable  thicket full of thorns .. It used to be used in Scotland as a hedge to protect sheep from wild animals. It is the edge of reason, the stark blue contrasts the bright yellows and deep greens hiding the thorny reality that lies within.

the seemingly innocuous picture of the dark sky at the station heralds in the burgeoning spring which is only a month or so away, soon we will be able to fish after work and have the wonderful long days again:-)

the fire extinguisher picture is for Muriel and Slats Naair .. they like those kind of things

the eggs Benedictine .. because I have never had this before (well called this)  and pictures of food always look nice ..

A strange thing, I was walking on the weekend and went to church on the inlet, I went to Gaia's church, the water lapped at my feat as I circumvented the inlet early on Sunday morning taking photo's, I saw something amazing, beyond the millions of cockle shells and flotsam and jetsam lying around, there was a dead bird that was covered in pearls of dew.. 

more pic/s tomorrow

Morning station

Morning station by vogon M
Morning station, a photo by vogon M on Flickr.

Morning station