📸 Watching the world go by.


📸 A Long Day …


📸 Well .. hello Wellington.


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📸 I must have missed this when it appeared …. sadly erased in real life - but not here on the internet.


📸 I need to rediscover where I found this image and will come back later with credit and link. I just think it is quite beautiful.


If you like this one - you will love these superb photographs on the click through.

🔗📸 International Aerial Photographer of the Year Contest Highlights the World from Above | Colossal


Considering how the day started.

It turned out quite nice.

Certainly the local ‘Petanquers’ thought so.


📸 A test as much as anything to see what Gemma 4 26B did with providing ‘accessibility text’ for my photo.

This is what it came up with:

A small structure with a dark roof covered in solar panels sits nestled among a dense backdrop of lush green trees.

Not too shabby. It was that kind of phrasing I had in my mind when I took it down by the beach last week, observing how the roof of an old boathouse (Unused? Do not know.) could double up as a baby solar ‘farm’ and not be that distracting.

Farm? Ok ‘backlot’.

A small structure with a dark roof covered in solar panels sits nestled among a dense backdrop of lush green trees.

🔄 UPDATE: 5 Minutes Later

Now I have read 🔗 Manton’s post properly - point of clarification -

While the checkbox is present in the current build, the server-side work is not yet enabled for any users.

So jury remains out as to how good the local model will be. I will run a test on the same image when it is available … so marking this post 🚧


📸 Hobbits only … though to be honest, we seem to be a few miles north of their natural habitat.


📸 I suspect that this was once a proud Foo Dog guarding someone’s property at the gate.


📸 Some places have ‘Street Art’ .. we have ‘Beach Art’

The beach is no Oneroa - but makes up with proximity.

The coast is taking a toll - eventually, the fight will be lost.



📸 Keeping My Sanity Yesterday …


📸 Ton // @zylstra.org will know exactly what I am talking about.

Waving from the other side of the bay.

(To make sense - 🔗 click here and scroll down to the last photograph. See that big building top left? That is where this was taken just under three years ago.)