sunday stills: Portraits.

Sunday Stills-Portraits (November 20th)


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This week’s challenge is Portraits. Let’s not only share some beautiful photographs, but also a new tip or two learned along the way. What worked, what didn’t… If you don’t have a willing human subject, it’s just as challenging to take good dog, cat, horse, armadillo portraits ;-).


After a long hike in a hot humid Borneo jungle, an ice cold can of sprite is heavenly to touch, says Sam. With a bit of corruption, I think I got a good photo.

Whose hand can be tougher than mine? asks the seller of Durian, the king of fruits which is hard and prickly like a hedgehog. This photo doesn't show much of the face.

This satin sheet is so smooth to touch and it is better when it's sun dried and wind blown. A reluctant model, children can be difficult to photograph.

Sam love tomatoes. Here he just harvested little tomatoes from our one and only plant. Another reluctant model, he says, take my hand.

My brothers loved flying kites. I guess they would give anything now to touch the strings and fly kites like they did once upon a time. Taking a photo of the model and the kite is hard.


This is not what I like to touch, Thomas tells me that it is OK to touch the mouse.

Here's Olivia and Thomas. My daughter G and Sam had done it before, so did I. We inheritted the Amazonian women's genes from our Hakka mum and Grandma.


with children, they don't stay still, and part of their head gets chopped off.

Sunday Stills, The letter “F”

My friend's order of fish and chips came in a dish shaped like a fish.


Feijoas, a fruit found in New Zealand. Acca sellowiana, a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, is native to the highlands of southern Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, and northern Argentina.[1] It is widely cultivated as a garden plant and fruiting tree in New Zealand, and can be found as a garden plant in Australia and Azerbaijan



Kids in New Zealand like face painting. These days, parties have a face painting theme.
Sunday Stills, the next challenge: The letter “F”
Posted in Sunday Stills with tags Sunday Stills on July 3, 2011 by Ed

This can be anything that begins with the letter F, things or places, whatever catches your fancy…. Oh Yeah…No Archives this week….:-))

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Scenic Sunday/Save the world:Are we too dependent on the computer?

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When I took this photo, I wanted to do a post on how green this supermarket is when they don't give out free plastic bags. You either pay for their yellow bags or use the paper boxes.

I don't like it when they introduced the self-service checkout. I don't use it because I am always worried I might make a mistake.

One day, a middle aged woman sternly told the check out operator when the latter asked if she would use the self check," Watch out, soon, it will take over your jobs."

I didn't think of that, I better stick to the human operator and have the occasional banter, " It is nice a warm here." I don't want the machine to replace my fellow union member.

So I didn't post my photos.

The story is at the Pak'nSave store, in Hamilton. My photo is the Mt Albert Branch.

Good Friday is a day when all the shops are closed for Easter. Here is one example of when we are forced to be dependent on the computer, and when there is a glitch? Who can blame the opportunists?

Honest shoppers and opportunists took advantage of the accidental opening of Hamilton's biggest supermarket over the Easter break.

There wasn't a checkout operator in sight when Mill St Pak'nSave opened at 8am on Good Friday because of a computer setting error.

The store was supposed to be closed for the public holiday, but the doors opened and the lights came on as usual because the security system was set incorrectly.

About 50 shoppers walked through the doors and took advantage of the unexpected opening - 12 of those showed their honesty by paying for their groceries using the self-service tills, said owner Glenn Miller.

"They were just happy to be able to buy something.

"One lady was here by herself for about 20 minutes and paid. She didn't seem to notice no one was here," he said after reviewing the security footage.

A further 12 shoppers stocked up their pantries without paying and the remainder abandoned their trolleys when they realised the store was unmanned, said Miller.

A regular customer called police from the store to alert them that people were leaving with groceries.

There were several people with trolleys and cars full of groceries when officers arrived at 9.20am, said Sergeant Guy Callahan.

Another shopper called the store yesterday "to say they were innocent and didn't take anything", he said.

Callahan praised those who paid. "Good on them. It just goes to show there are some honest people out there. Those who didn't pay should do the honest thing and come forward and pay for their groceries."

Police are working with supermarket staff to review the security footage and identify offenders.

Miller suspected the fault was linked to a command cancelling the normal opening time for the day. "It wasn't set up properly and we hardly tested it because we're always open."

The issue with the computer system has since been sorted out and the store would be closed today as planned. He wanted those who hadn't paid to cough up and he would donate the money to the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal.