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Traffic cone; I was curious as to how the contrast between the orange of the cone and the green of the container it's standing next to would come out.
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(421x640, 27.9KB)		 The obligatory semi-macro shot of a flower. The petals are originally yellow with orange longditudinal stripes, and that's completely vanished with the colour.
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(800x540, 42.2KB)		 Grass; I always like the contrast you get between highlights and the shadowy depths here.
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(800x542, 104.9KB)		 Something of an in-joke -- there's some very few bits of colour on the lens, but in b/w they all vanish.
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A Schindler's List-style colorization of the previous image -- the bits of colour here are (apart from the background) the only bits of colour that would have been in the original.
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(440x640, 30.9KB)		 'cause, you see, they're, like, yellow.. Okay, I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.
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(800x537, 57.8KB)		 Weird plant growing from a tree on Queen St.
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(800x534, 50.2KB)		 I liked the way that because of the shape of the post, there was a neat grey scale from light to dark as the shadows slowly got more intense.
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What it says -- a handrail somewhere in Aotea Square.
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(800x538, 52.5KB)		 The first of some shots of bits of rooftop from our balcony. Most of the roofs around here are already grey, so I was curious to see what they'd look like when there was definitely no colour left. This particular bit of piping is shiny and new-looking, because they (with great noise) replaced the old rusty one a few weeks ago.
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(800x535, 43.3KB)		 More rooftop scenery.
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(800x538, 56.6KB)		 It's neat living somewhere where, in theory, you really could do the movie-style escape over the rooftops.
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Yet more cooling stuff.
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(800x535, 66.0KB)		 Fun with depth-of-field on a wooden seat somewhere off Lorne St.
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(800x521, 34.3KB)		 Lord Auckland -- from the Auckland library public art database: Artist: Henry Weeks Inscription: In 1840 Governor Hobson named this city after Lord Auckland from whom he had received command of H.M.S. Rattlesnake when Lord Auckland was First Lord of the Admiralty in 1834. Lord Auckland served as Governor-General of India from 1835 to 1842 and this statute of him stood in Calcutta from 1848 to 1969 when it was presented by the government of West Bengal to the City of Auckland. The transportation of the statue to Auckland and its erection on this site was arranged and financed by the New Zealand Company Ltd as a gift to its home city. H. Weeks, Sculptor and Founder, 1848. Significance: Full length draped portrait figure of the 2nd Lord Auckland. To present the idea of a 'noble statesman'. He is wearing a scholar's gown and holding a scroll.
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(524x640, 34.5KB)		 A mysterious structure somewhere in the park next to Aotea Square. It really is as lop-sided as it looks -- what I don't understand is why there's a TV aerial on the top; there's no doors or obvious way in, either, unless there's a tunnel or something.
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In person, the left-hand wall is bright blue and the right-hand wall is bright orange. The pipe is painted according to the wall it's over.
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(800x543, 77.8KB)		 View through a waterfall in the square next to the Art Gallery.
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(416x640, 34.6KB)		 More waterfall distortion.
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(800x538, 40.9KB)		 Another view of the same place as my TOPE 13 submission.
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The other b/w shots I took for TOPE 13 that didn't make the cut.

I've noticed I have a definite tendency to take somehow 'impersonal' photos -- a lot of these are like that, so the one I submitted at least tries to be more active.

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