Spider-of-the-day, a perfectly amusing wolf spider, a native to be found in most New Zealand gardens – Anoteropsis hilaris. With eyes arranged…
Letterbox Spider
The Tiny Green Letterbox Spider, Eriophora cursorium*. As found by my letterbox, and posing here in its natural environment, on…
Failing to catch a frisbee
Me ineptly playing with the fast shutter speed on my camera, while my dog ineptly plays catch-the-flying-thing. And yet we’re both…
Evening in the Bay
I spent the weekend in Hawke’s Bay – the water and hills were ridiculously scenic, especially in the still warm evening.…
Looking both ways
Next in the “All My Friends Are Robots” series, an accident of posing meant I could make one eye look through the mask, to…
Geoff, Robot
Such helpful friends I have, willing to pose, be cut up and rebuilt, slightly changed.
Photoshop, my old friend
It’s good to play with you again . . . via a series of robots. First up, electrician Matt.
Probably not Beelzebub
There are at least 240,000 species of flies, the internets tell me, albeit less than half have been properly described. Some varieties are…
Getting in close
Ordinary things are amazing when you look closely – like this everyday Daddy Longlegs spider, crawling across a red-painted wall…
De-stressing with charcoal
People have been drawing with charcoal as long as people have been people. It is strangely soothing to look and…