Jason’s Travel are currently running a competition to find a photo that best fits the phrase “Only in New Zealand”. I spent Christmas day in 30 degree heat in the shade of a gazebo surrounded by Pohutukawa while my bro-in-law cooked us up an awesome BBQ. I figured that fitted the phrase pretty well and [...]
Christchurch Mayor, Bob Parker, is right now cruising around the streets of Christchurch on the top of a horse-drawn tram. Beats the Pope-mobile any day.
I got to the office today and noticed a guy walking around outside in a chicken suit next to a woman handing out flyers to save money on parking in Christchurch.
I thought that this was enough of a story in itself – what has a chicken got to do with parking? Why did the chicken park the car? Which came first, the chicken or the parking metre? It just doesn’t work.
So I took a photo at almost full zoom on my Canon Powershot S5 IS and was about to post it on the blog when I realised that the image had enough clarity to zoom in even further. I found that I could actually read the 2cm tall text on the flyer that the promo-girl was holding in her hand.
Pretty remarkable really. And now I know that the “EB” thing is all about “Early Bird” parking specials. Right.
I think they were asked to move on because they were right outside EB Games and the management probably didn’t want to be associated with a chicken.
The photos at the top of this article show: Left – the view from my window, Centre – The partly zoomed in photo that I took, Right – zooming in on Photoshop shows you can read the text on the flyer. Impressive.
Note: OK so I took the photo on the left after they had gone so I had to photoshop in a chicken standing in the mall entrance way to show you how far away they were.
Sir Edmund Hillary
Lord of the Rings
Beautiful Mountains
Sheep
… and now eggs.
New Zealand is known for a few things and now it has an extra notch to its belt.
This morning, crowds gathered in the rain at Christchurch’s Cathedral Square in New Zealand to watch the official weigh-in of what is now the World’s Largest Scrambled Egg at 1.2 tonnes. That or they just came for the free breakfast. Article at www.redarmband.com
After playing around with the Hollywood sign for the Wordpress logo competition, I decided to make our own version of the Hollywood sign in Christchurch. Seeing as New Zealand is such a great place for major films these days.
This is basically the view from my window every day (minus a power pole or too). I took this a couple of hours ago at 7pm. The sun is setting behind the Southern Alps of New Zealand and shadows are creeping across the Port Hills.
As the sun goes down they begin to look more and more yellow and can be quite surreal at times. I actually reduced the yellow to make this photo look more realistic than reality!
I had to remove the powerlines from the hills and get rid of the light-post and telegraph lines before I could play around with this. The un-cropped, original colour image is below, followed by the absolute original photo. Article and photos at www.redarmband.com
Wordpress are currently running a competition on the creative use of the Wordpress logo.
After 100 entries, the Wordpress team have narrowed it down to ten finalists – 5 categories with 2 entries each. I’m proud to say that I am one of the two finalists for the Landmarks and Masterpieces category.
Right now, I’m holding 58% of the vote with 587 votes. If you like what I’ve done with the logo, please head to the Wordpress logo voting page and vote for Hollywood! Voting page at http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/vote-on-the-wordpress-logo-entries/
A few months ago, during my trip to the UK, I was walking along Blackpool’s promenade when I came across the world’s largest glitter ball. At the time, I didn’t really notice anything unusual (other than a giant glitter ball right next to the beach). But … looking back at the photos … I can’t [...]
I’m sure I’m far from being the only South Islander that has bagged Auckland. While working in the corporate training industry, I had visited Auckland for a training expo and had found the road network to be a nightmare.
Since then, all my memories of Auckland have been based around the poor traffic system. For this reason, I wasn’t particularly excited about another business trip up to Auckland’s Search Engine Bootcamp last Friday.
I booked a last minute hotel via www.wotif.com. The Arena Hotel on Beach Street. And I can honestly say it’s the worst hotel I’ve been in. I actually had to demand to change rooms because my room only had 2 out of 5 working lights and the bathroom was flooded due to a constant leak. The room I was moved to was little better and had a half-used soap and hair in the shower. Nice. “Modern and comfortable accommodation” my arse. (see full post at http://lincolnnz.wordpress.com)
I’m an avid follower of Heather Ellis’ photography work. Not only because she is a close friend of mine, but because she has a great eye for a picture and has recently been travelling the world and displaying her work on the Heather Ellis Photography website. It’s great to see a New Zealander’s opinion of [...]
“Where I am now. Where I want to be soon. Either way, I’m facing the same direction.” A friend of mine, Jono, posing on some boulders at Castle Hill. Both images of Jono were actually taken just a few seconds part. In the second image, I cut Jono out and re-pasted him on the higher [...]
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