Home from the holidays

I found it pretty easy to pack my suitcase for my big trip this year: five pairs of identical black yoga…

Pholcus phalangioides – a kitchen-variety alien

There are people with telescopes and various recording devices constantly scanning the skies, convinced that there must be alien eyes watching us.…

I have friends who hate zoos. Who think all the creatures should be freed from these vile prisons, and…

No snow or ice today, just bright sunshine and a very chilly wind. There was an organised ‘cosplay photoshoot’ on top…

Ah, the joy of budget photography purchases from online auction sites – sometimes dud, but much more often a way…

With the infrared camera (a modified Sony A6000), and using a 590nm filter, so this is at the near-visible end…

Clouds look different in IR – solid cloud looks fairly blah, and cloudless sky uninteresting, but skies that are sunny with vague…

All just a touch Narnianical in Wellington’s Botanical Gardens, as seen in the false colour of the IR mod camera. Why is…

Wellington’s Cuba St festival, Cubbaduppa, at the town hall end of things. With the IR mod camera, using a…

IR mod camera. This same image, 2 minutes earlier without the people sitting on the bench, didn’t work at…