Weekly Photo Challenge: Early Bird

I’m not much of a morning person so I have gone back to my trip to Bali (five hours behind New Zealand time) when I was jet lagged and waking early local time for this week’s theme of Early Bird

Weekly Photo Challenge: Blur (2)

I don’t normally post twice for the weekly photo challenge.  However I’ll make an exception this week.  On Tuesday I posted something from my archive because I wasn’t happy with any of the shots I took during a lunchtime session in the streets of Wellington.  However, because its school holidays here and traffic is light I got in to town a bit earlier than normal on Wednesday morning and used the time to take a few shots at the train station.

If you are not a fan of HDR/tone mapping this image won’t be for you – but I quite like what the post processing has done to the movement effect in the blur.

Orange you glad it’s photo challenge time?

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reward

Acknowledgement

The travelling English cricket fans get rewarded for their support and loyalty with acknowledgement from Joe Root following his innings in today’s England – Sri Lanka game

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale

Offering to the Big Buddha

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Depth

Deep Reflections in shallow puddles

Weekly Photo Challenge: Express Yourself

The Test Match

This week’s challenge of Express Yourself seemed very open to me.  I can’t sing or play an instrument and I’m not good at anything that requires fine motor skills so photography (which is still a relatively new interest of mine) is my main source of creative expression.  Other than straight snap shots, all my photos could be said to fit the theme I guess.  I’m working on my technical skills to try and get better shots straight out of the camera.  But I also find sometimes that a bit of post processing (topaz simplify in this case) can help to capture what I felt rather than just what I saw.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity

I saw that this week’s theme was serenity from other people’s posts in my reader before I saw Cheri’s original prompt.  Thus it is coincidence that this shot, which was the first one I thought of when I saw the word. was also taken at Ngong Ping.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Warmth

Leap into summer

Girls taking advantage of the warmth of a December day in Wellington to celebrate the end of the school year and the start of the summer

Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy

My response to the Weekly Photo Challenge theme of Dreamy