sky first then shoes: sunset

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2014-01-28

colours, colours, colours

Captured at Tian Tan Buddha on Lantau Island, HK.

2014-01-22

2013-04-18

2013-03-25

I like to think of the sea as a seducer of young men, bright eyed and open, with adventure in their hearts: Men who leapt gladly from the underhanded, Shanghai-ing, political world of the privateers, into the democratic arms of honest share-and-split-the-booty-alike piracy, cutlass between teeth and a flintlock, tied to end of a colourful silk sash...

2012-01-09

pennants for moonday

an idle celebration to kick off the start of the working week...

2011-12-27

unlikely inventions (4)

2011-12-22

local speciality

The island of Ischia is famed for its oversized lemons (some as big as melons!), and its traditional seaside produce, including coral harvested from the sea bed. The most prized coral in this region is takes the form of small antler-like branches of a bright red colour. Colours in the region vary, however, tending into pale and slightly purpley pinks. To see a coral coloured sun setting over the headland at Forio was one fine speciment of "local colour..."

2011-12-21

party invites: single entendre

2011-12-15

time to brighten up?

2011-12-11

penumbral blush

Somewhat perplexing - according to the USNO data services the moon was to rise in total eclipse, one minute prior to sunset. How could the the planet I was on cast a shadow from the sun I could see in the sky, onto a satellite already visible in the same sky? Fortunately, the moon obliged, by being a few minutes late. A large hill may have had something to do with it...