Shot Alive

As well as great photographers on flickr, there are some wonderful artists. Eduardo Delabarra has an extraordinarily inventive mind and an ability to make great cartoons and caricatures. He does a mixture of comics strips and cartoons, and because he lives in Chile, some of his cartoons are in Spanish which I cannot understand. However the humour of his drawings, the satire and the side splitting funniness do not need any translation. All the drawings in this article are by Eduardo Delabarra unless otherwise noted.

The characters may be wonderfully satirical:

103. Sir Regor the Dislexic Knight & 8.The Red Knight

Sometimes ranging from whimsical to comically scary:

Zombie Nº49 Vincent vanNo Ears & Zombie Nº582 Ol'Crypt Breath

Each character has new unique attributes that entertain:

TEA TIME & Pirate Nº140 Esteban the Monkey,

His female characters may be very shapely:

GUERRERA & SALÚ!!!

Or sometimes a little wicked, or a lot scary:

CROQUIS & Pirate Nº225 MACHO ANN

The cartoons often show raw emotional states:

Zombie Nº33 JUAN OF THE SEARED FLESH & A BAD BAD GUY
Solución energética 

And we can easily identify with what they are experiencing:

T.V. & FEELINGS

Then one day this cartoon appeared:

SILVER XADRIAN, by eduardodelabarra
Caricature of one of my contacts.

To this I posted a comment "Excellent. But be careful or all your contacts will want one (hint hint)"

And a little later this appeared:

PHOTOGRAPHER, by eduardodelabarra

And I added the comment "He looks like someone I know ;-)"

I had been caricatured by Eduardo!

It was time to get my own drawing tools out (the computer ones) and make a caricature of Eduardo:

"Cartoon Explosion" by Ray Tomes

The cartoons jump out of his head, off his pencil and paper and into the world, entertaining all who know him and splitting sides around the world. Thank you E.D.

Eduardo Delabarra's photos are here, and he has done many hundreds of cartoons.

Note: I did the central character (ED) and the fireworks. All the other characters are ED's creations.

To this Eduardo stated "Thank you! I liked much. I thought that you were doing only photography, but I see that also you are a great draftsman thank you..."

And I said "I am very pleased that you like it. The alternative was that I get in trouble for copyright violation. ;-)"

In one of his many creations after this, Eduardo produced:

Zombie Nº577 Faraon the Empty Headed

And I commented "These holes in the head seem to be catching. ;-)"

Eduardo's stream of creations continued:

Zombie Nº152 Homo Sapiens Neandertalensis & Pirate Nº156 Parrot Face

And the world goes on being entertained and caricatured by this inspired, brilliant and prolific artist. Thank you Eduardo Delabarra!

Many more pictures to entertain you at Eduardo Delabarra photos.

THE THREE STOOGES, by eduardodelabarra

Curly??

The world of language translation is fraught with dangers. There is an old joke about the first computer to translate languages. They did the test run from English into Chinese, but no-one present could understand Chinese to see if it was right so they had to use the computer to translate back again.

The original message: Out of sight out of mind

The result after two translations: Blind Idiot

Well these have only been translated once, but the essential flavour of craziness and blindness is still there. Please don't read too many in one sitting as the sides can get sore (you have been warned!)

When I told this story to some friends, one of whom teaches Spanish, they told me a story back. Someone wrote something that had "binary digit" in the description of a person. Eventually they worked out that the person was using a dictionary to translate that someone was a "bit" something.

Of course one has to wonder whether some of these are accidents or some mischievous westerner has been employed by the signwriters.

The title link will take you to flickr photos tagged "chinglish" in order of interestingness and will be updated with new photos from time to time. Many of the photos there are of signs with very rude English words in them, and those with deicate tastes should stop before the bottom of this page. Individual photos can be clicked to go to larger versions in flickr and you can add comments if you are a member.

"Very, very bad Chinglish, by andreasee"
I actually got off the bus and doubled back to snap this photo. It's an ad for a yet-to-be-built condominium complex. I wonder if they'll have the Zyklon block, Dachau block, Rommel block...

"Office of Mayhem Evaluation, by xiaming"
This is one of my favourite signs in China. I'm not going to say where it is, because the place is a friend of ours, and I'd never do anything to embarrass them.

Charming Dentistry, by mtbl"
I'm not sure if "charming" and "Denistry" go together in my mind. I haven't got a clue what the "English Full of Process" means.

My favourite sign outside a restaurant at Zhongshan Street. I think it is supposed to say Barbecued Oysters.

Bu ke hui shou wu, Beijing

"Caution Neehanicalinjureycable, by xiaming"
This splendid warning sign is a few steps from my front door.

"Useless subtitles"
I got this copy of 少年去天国 because it said it had English subtitles. It does, but I don't think they are going to help me understand the movie.

"give 'em the 'aul slip"

"mother soldiers", by webel
This sign is on the outside of the train station in Yueyang, China (Hunan Province.)

"Convey your heartworm feelings (Qingdao), by xiaming"
Sign found in a Korean restaurant in Qingdao, China. Regretfully, a flash flare was necessary (very dark restaurant and no tripod at hand).

"Cowboy Bone, or Button up the Duck, by qilin"
The sad thing about this restaurant is that it was decent, pretty clean, good food, wide selection, but their menu was just classic. I couldn't come up with this stuff if I tried. Seems like they used an electronic translator that was really bad.

"Help, waiter--I can't decide what to order"
I just had Saliva Chicken yesterday so maybe I'll order the Husband and Wife lung slice today. I'll have a Sauce Cow on the side, but hold the Sauce Pig hand, please.

"Private vegetables, by xiaming"
Extraordinary. I mean, I'm all for food porn, but what you do with your vegetables in the privacy of your home is your business!

Spotted in Xi Dawang Lu, Beijing. Thats a very, very sexy street, people.

"Very Special Ginger Ale, by xiaming"
The proprietors of Cafe Ibiza, in Beijing's Jianwai SOHO, do something very special to their ginger ale before serving to the customers.

Flickr allows people to store their pictures and for other people to see them, and also allows you to keep track of your favourite pictures taken by other people. These are some of my favourites from flickr. You can see any picture larger by clicking it to get to it in flickr and then you can explore other related pictures and have many other options also.

Although I had joined flickr for a place to store some photos, I hadn't fully appreciated the extent of what it did, and how great a community it was. Then, because I was a friend of his, Shitao's wife Gladsdotter / Shotaku contacted me in StumbleUpon to say that she was asking his friends to use Shitao's paintings as icons for his birthday the next day. I was happy to do this and it also resulted in me becoming a big time flickr user and fan. Here are a couple of Shitao's paintings.

The photo below on the left is "Bond of Union" by Josh Sommers who says "Well here it is. After many hours I have completed my homage to Escher's "Bond of Union". I found it rather challenging, much harder than my first rind piece. Please enjoy it in the largest version. The hardest part was getting my wife to pose for the shot with me. (Just kidding)."

The one on the right, "Rainbow Warrior", was my first introduction to the idea of "cutouts", or patches of a painting left in colour while the rest is reduced to gray scale. It is a well suited picture for this style.

"Pinecone Grouping" by judwal & "Lotus - Lhalbag Botanical Gardens" by sover. I like patterns in nature, and Lotus / Water Lilies have something magic about them.

"3D Star Map" (edited), by tjt195 & "What run-off does on cold days!" by rich66 who says "Took a quick road trip to the same mountain chain on the Tariffville/Bloomfield, CT border where my other ice shots were taken. The long overhang of the icicles is creating what looks like a cave on the left."

"Sunrise over Bagan" by buzia & "This is a Buddha photo".

"Whiter-Shade-of-Pale" by lost-moments who says "Harajuku became famous in the 1980s due to the large numbers of street performers and wildly dressed teens who gathered there on Sundays when Omotesando was closed to traffic. Those movements lead to the vibrant "Hokoten Band Scene"..." & "Looking Hot, by jbc16.

More of natures patterns with "Coyote Buttes North, Paria Canyon-Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona" by gakout & "Aloe polyphylla Schönland ex Pillans" by brewbooks who notes "Threats to populations of spiral aloe include overgrazing, unsustainable harvesting by plant enthusiasts and people interested in its medicinal properties, and the increasing rarity of its pollinator, the Malachite Sunbird".

"Steinmänchen" on the beach of Zakynthos, Greece by buzia & "Thoughts" by omgpinkboxers who adds "later become your actions". I used to build rock pile like this years ago, so I had a trip down memory lane from that. Also, the idea of guarding our thoughts because they later become actions is one that I only appreciated when I took up vipassana meditation.

See also:

My Favourite Pictures taken by Others (1)
My Favourite Pictures taken by Others (2)

FLICKR has a concept that they call interestingness that changes slightly every second day so that people cannot engineer things to it. It basically measures how interesting people find pictures after making some allowance for how much exposure they have had and includes how many view it, comment it and click favourite.

When people join flickr they don't know about this. then they find out and they don't have any yet. Then they get one and are elated. Then it goes away and they are sad. Then another or even two and they are over the moon. After enough of this torture they stop looking. After a while a wee peek is made and one day there are 4 in there, then a bit later they are all gone again. Then they learn to laugh. It is a good lesson for life!

Here are my pictures that I have noticed being in explore, but I might have missed some (he said trying to sound ever so casual about it).

First are three of my water colour paintings:

Fatty Arbuckle's

Abandoned

Adobe Cottage

Next a couple of flowers. Flowers, Animals, Babies and Sunsets are probably the easiest things to get high interestingness on.

Fine Pink Rose

Yellow and Red Hibiscus

Next two scenes. They score well with interesting colours, lighting and layers in the hills. The first one below was very popular for a long time and it was only a wee vidcap, so I had to go back and make a better copy so I didn't look too much like a Homer Simpson.

Mogok Morning Mist"

Auckland City Lights

While walking in London I took some digital video clips of the colourful street life. These are just a few of the pictures (vidcaps) of people seen there that I put on flickr. Click the title above for more.

The first thing that you see is lots of people taking pictures. :-)

Also there are many performers. In our walk there were three different mimes dressed in white. It wasn't obvious that they had any connection with each other as they were well spread out. They put on a good show.

These were either Kiwis or Aussies putting on a performance with huge imaginary animals with people inside, but the head was controlled by the guy with the leash. The movements were very realistic, if that can be said about an imaginary creature.

You see many colourful characters, some just out for a stroll, some to sell their wares or provide music in hope of some coins in the hat. The wire sculptures were a treat for me, as I have been known to doodle with the wire wraps off sparkling grape juice.

The pub crowds overflow onto the street. There are no seats there, so you have to make do.

Surely London is the most cosmopolitan city in the world. On the whole the different groups fit in very well together and the atmosphere is pleasant. All have come here for similar reasons.

Two nights ago my wife Lorna came home and said that the tide was in in Little Shoal Bay and there were nice reflections of the city lights. After our recent NZ flickr meet at night we were keen to take some more night photos and so carried our tripods the few hundred metres to the bay. It was a lovely evening and the lights of the harbour bridge made long flickering beams of light across the bay, broken only by the dark forms of boats. These boats are nearly all catamarans, because the tide goes out a very long way and ordinary yachts would fall right over.

These pictures are all stored at flickr, and you can click on them to see them in different sizes or to look at other pictures there or make comments.

Auckland City Lights

Auckland City including the harbour bridge in the foreground and sky tower, as seen from Little Shoal Bay on the North Shore.

Aliens around Sky City

Some wee red thingies float around the Sky Tower. View through Auckland's harbour bridge from NorthShore at Little Shoal Bay.

Some of the pictures turned out well, but we are still learning about taking pictures in low light when there are some very bright lights at a distance. The camera wants to over-expose the pictures and it is hard to over-ride that totally.

So next evening we went out to dinner and saw the photographically tempting crescent moon as we went. Fortunately we got home before it set and so grabbed our cameras and tripods and drove up to the top of the hill as the moon was not visible from our place. We managed to get in some shots before it set behind the houses and street lights. At one stage there were street lights within the crescent, making a Moslem flag.

Moon Landing in Birkenhead

Chelsea sugar works is a big pink building with a large park surrounding it and its own wharf where boats bring in raw sugar to be refined and take it away again later after it has been refined. The wharf extends well out into the harbour because the boats cannot get close to the shallow shore.

Boat at Chelsea Sugar works wharf

Seen from Birkenhead point, a boat loads or unloads sugar at Chelsea sugar works near Birkenhead, Auckland.

Auckland City Lights

Seen through the harbour bridge from Birkenhead Point.

Sky City Tower and Auckland City

Seen from Birkenhead Point.

Three weeks ago the statue of liberty was seen crying. People who know someone who spoke to an alleged onlooker say that it mumbled something about the Bush administration between sobs.

The following morning it was no longer there. The police have been talking to David Copperfield, but no arrests have been made.

Then this picture turns up in Curitaba, Brazil.

O sol no fundo do copo, by paulobrabo

The statue of liberty is smiling again! It is showing its two eyes and a big happy smiley face.

We heard from an anonymous source that their Auntie was told that a neighbour in the CIA thinks that the US government have made a top secret approach to the Brazilian government about getting it back. But this seems unlikely because apparently it is proving almost as popular as Corcovado Hill in Rio de Janeiro with Jesus Christ the Redeemer statue.

(apologies to the source of the first photo, I did not record where I got it)

Note added 1-May-2007:

I set out to find the location of the first picture so that I could link properly to it. Well searching for "Statue of Liberty Crying" found a surprising number of sites .. . google says 526,000 but it is known to exaggerate. Never did find the original, but here are some of the finds I made:

David Copperfield turned up again and lead me here. - the police will surely have increased their suspicion and have him as the no. 1 suspect.

Which also has a song:

""Sad Statue"

Conquest to the lover,
And your love to the fire,
Permanence unfolding in the absolute.

Forgivness is
The ultimate sacrifice.
Eloquence belongs,
To the conqueror.

The pictures of time and space are rearranged,
In this little piece of typical tragedy.

Justified Candy!
Brandy for the nerves,
Eloquence belongs,
To the conqueror.

You and me will all go down in history,
With a sad Statue of Liberty,
And a Generation that didn't agree.

You and me will all go down in history,
With a sad Statue of Liberty,
And a Generation that didn't agree.

I forgot to
I forgot to let you know that...

Justified Candy!
Brandy for the nerves,
Eloquence belongs,
To the conqueror.

Conquest to the lover,
And your love to the fire,
Permanence unfolding in the absolute.

Forgivness is
The ultimate sacrifice.
Eloquence belongs,
To the conqueror.

You and me will all go down in history,
With a sad Statue of Liberty,
And a Generation that didn't agree.

You and me will all go down in history,
With a sad Statue of Liberty,
And a Generation that didn't agree.

Generation..............

What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?!!!

WOAH!!!!!!!

Suffering, suffering now!

You and me will all go down in history,
With a sad Statue of Liberty,
And a Generation that didn't agree.

You and me will all go down in history,
With a sad Statue of Liberty,
And a Generation that didn't agree.

Generation.........."

These pictures can be seen in 3D without any special glasses or anything.

The older ones were made the hard way by manipulating a single image, the later ones by taking two photos from slightly different positions hopefully without any objects moving. Tricky with living things, people are tolerable but the cat is impossible.

Here are the steps to see the picture in 3D:

1. Simply display them on your computer screen, in original size, not in full screen mode and sit about 0.5 metre (or 1/2 a yard will do) directly in front of your screen.

2. Go cross-eyed so that the 2 images become 4 images.

3. Vary the amount of cross-eyedness until the inside 2 images are in the same place - i.e. the left one of the right pair and the right one of the left pair coincide.

4. Now try to make your eyes focus without changing how cross-eyed you are, even though the distance is wrong. When the eyes see 3 images (as 2 coincide) the middle image is the one to look at.

5. Suddenly bang it will be in glorious 3D. Once you get practiced it gets easier.

I am not responsible for any eye strain or headaches! Stop before you do any permanent damage ;-)

This is a fancy light decoration (I think) and so you can try out your technique on it.

This is my granddaughter Lea painting.

This is a 3D picture of one of my priceless sculptures. I call them Champagne Wire Sculptures which is a bit pretentious because they are made from the wire off bubbly grape juice.

First up a barbeque or BBQ as they are called down under.

And a Giraffe. Four legged things are the best to make from the wire.

The above 3D pictures were made by taking two photos from slightly different positions, just like the two human eyes. However the rest were made from a single photo and require a lot more work to make them 3D.

This is my wife Lorna.

And last of all this is me. Well, my head anyway.

The post next to this one shows some actual 3D pictures. This describes how to make them. The basic idea is that there needs to be two pictures seen from slightly different angles, just like the two eyes in our head are slightly separated.

Ideally the two pictures are taken at the same instant, but this is not possible unless you have a special camera or two cameras the same. So in practice it means taking two pictures quickly one after the other with a slight movement of the camera in between. The movement would normally be about 6 cm or 2.5 inches to match our eyes and this suits for small scale pictures such as objects at the table. For large scenes with buildings and trees the movement may be more, anything form 0.3 to 5 m (1 to 15 feet) and you can experiment with this for yourself.

Try starting out with inanimate objects such as crockery or fruit or other household items. When you have mastered this you are ready to try things like people. You have to get them to stand absolutely still while you take a picture, move, and take another picture. All this while having them not look like a statue. Otherwise you have to take the pictures very fast such as by continuous shutter action while moving the camera across the line of sight. It is important to keep the camera pointing in the same direction and to keep it horizontal at all times.

It is a good idea when taking photos for 3D to take them in the portrait mode rather than landscape mode. That means turn your camera sideways so that the picture is taller and thinner. Otherwise when you join them together they will be two long sideways.

Once you have your two pictures you need to put them into your computer and join them together with a graphics program such as Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro or Corel Paint. Get the two images in and resize them to about 800 tall x 600 wide. If there is any lack of horizontalness, then rotate them to be properly horizontal.

Make a new blank image that is 1200 wide x 800 tall. Then copy and paste the two images into the new picture. Keep them as floating objects because they may not line up perfectly. Put them to the left and right in your new picture space. The one on the left will be seen with the right eye and vice versa. So the one on the left should have more background visible to the right of foreground objects, and more background visible at the left frame of the picture and vice versa for the other eye.

Move them up and down until they are aligned vertically by checking that key points are at the same height. If you get the top right and the bottom is unaligned then one image may be a little closer than the other. You need to stretch the smaller one to fit, but stretch diagonally so that the picture stays in proportion.

Once the two images are correctly aligned vertically you can move them horizontally until they just meet and then lock them in. Now trim the combined picture so that any white bits left around the edges are removed, trying to keep a similar size to each.

Save the result and start going cross-eyed. :-)

3D Photographs: Anaglyphs, Crosseye and Parallel. This is a detailed description of many things relating to 3D pictures, including equipment, software, flickr groups and tags and more.

Today I have two of my grand-daughters staying. We first of all watched a praying mantis at the front door that they discovered when they arrived. It was a fat female which looked like it had just eaten its mate.

Then Lea (nearly 6) and Niki (nearly 4) decided to do some painting.

Lea is working very seriously.

It was baked beans and cheese toasties for lunch. The fixed stares are because they were watching a DVD at the same time.

After lunch we walked to the park nearby where there are swings, slides and stuff. Niki really enjoyed the slide tube.

Lea does gymnastics, so walked the beam with great poise.

Then the girls got on the swings. After a while they said that they wanted their shoes off. Niki wanted to really swing.

Granddad, granddad, push me higher! .... Please!

The girls played together really well and even came down the slide together many times without mishap. Well, Lea got a sore elbow, but after a short cuddle was back at it.

This is a picture of Lea painting from above, but after sprinkling with fairy dust it has become 3 dimensional. To see it in 3D you have to go cross-eyed when you look at it. OK, so you think I am pulling your leg. Well the fairy won't sprinkle 3D dust on you if you don't do it.

See, I told you.

I will do another article about 3D pictures after this. But as my blog reverses the order, you will have to get in very quick to see them in time order.

These are some watercolour paintings that I did some years ago. I have given them and many more away to family and friends.

Fatty Arbuckle's in Stratford Upon Avon.

Old Gnarled Tree outside the Duke of Marlborough, Bay of Islands, New
Zealand.

Fisherman's Wharf is a local view and the other one of a pair that my wife says has to stay together. Northcote, Auckland, New Zealand.

Abandoned House in Northland.

If you like these, there are lots more paintings on my flickr site.

There are many cases of Fibonacci spirals in nature: sunflowers and other flowers, pine cones and pine needles on pine trees, perhaps half of all plants use this method of arranging branches, leaves, stems, flowers, seeds or whatever they want to arrange.

In the picture above you can see the spirals each way in the palm tree old fond stumps. It so happens that in all plants that have these spirals, the number of spirals is always one of these numbers: 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 ... a series known as the Fibonacci series in which each number is the sum of the previous two: 1+2=3, 2+3=5, 3+5=8 etc.

In a small pine tree branch there might be 3 spirals one way and 5 the other. When the branch has grown (some years later, don't sit there waiting for this to happen) there will be 5 spirals one way and 8 the other. The thing is that you will never catch a tree in the act of adding extra spirals. So how does it do it?

The answer is provided in the pictures below, so don't look until you try to work it out yourself.

The first picture shows 3 and 5 spirals with green and red respectively. The second shows 5 and 8 spirals with red and blue. They are the same tree. When the tree is thinner we see the 3 and 5 more easily, but as it expands the 5 and 8 are more easily seen. It is all a question of which is the closest way for the eye and brain to make the connection.

So the answer to the question about how it does it is that it doesn't. We do it with how we connect the dots.

See also Fibonacci Phi Ratio and Intelligent Design.

This was just a passing fancy, discovering there is a tool to add speech bubbles to pictures, I had to try it out.

Take That! It has been commented as rather Monty-Pythonesque.

Cows shopping in India.

Black Panther. (Really our cat Ebony).
If called by a Panther,
Don't anther.

It only gets worse, I'm sorry. One of the first pictures I took with my new camera.

Having joined flickr and got terribly addicted, the next step was to join photographers anonymous, oops I mean NZ flickr group. It took ages before they had a meeting that I could go to (well weeks I suppose). My wife Lorna came along too - she eventually has to follow some of my addictions to get to see me.

We met in Auckland City for a chat followed by a tour of the local interesting photo spots. These of course included the cemetery and and anywhere that served coffee or food.

I didn't know what everyone looked like, so at the appointed time and place I saw three guys with cameras ...

.. and went up to them and asked "Are you the NZ flickr group?" to which they answered "Eh? What? We are just tourists". Well I explained about flickr to them, you can see that they are addicts in the making, so look out for them posting the sites of Auckland soon.

Here are some of the members of the NZ flickr group:

I was going to include a better picture of the group (apart from my personal dismemberment) but it keeps giving me errors when I try to. So just go here if you want to see it.

If you thought that I was joking about the graveyard, here is the spooky evidence that I was not.

I learned about taking interesting pictures of moving traffic, and here is my "Spaghetti Junction" photo which I am happy with.

When we came back down Queen St, I was lucky to see one of the other addicts looking up and so I did too and saw what I had never noticed before:

OK, I am a NZ flickr addict. We have to say that you know at each meeting. Wonder when the next one is?

Here is where you can see the rest of my photos from the NZ flickr group.

Dusk at Waiake beach gives interesting sunset colours to Rangitoto island even though it is in the East. This picture has it all, boy walking dog, yachts, about ten little ducks, sunset, island, beach, rocks and a little post. ;-)

I was fascinated by the little extra waves that criss-crossed the foreground after each wave had come up, making almost square patterns. At Waiake beach, Auckland's North Shore, New Zealand. It is a recurring theme for me to look at the patterns in nature.

I was lucky to visit Myanmar in and travel around with a group of 500 meditators and our teacher S N Goenka. The people of Myanmar are so friendly, honest and charming. I would like to go back again some time.

This is magic view of a morning mist in Mogok.

Some golden smiles which are common, and seem to be a mixture of sun block and fashion statement.

I call this Watermelon Hat. The women quite often have trays of stuff for sale, and with one hand carrying the baby the other is needed for taking the money, so the goods get carried on the head.

New Zealand is lucky to be so far from the rest of the world when it comes to having beautiful clear water at its beaches. Coromandel is a popular place to visit for tourists, especially backpackers, and places like this are found at the end of long, windy, dusty roads. We are lucky to have kind friends who invite us to their bach (pronounced batch - a kiwi word for beach house) to enjoy a break.

I really like the regular geometrical pattern of the creepers and their shadows. It is a pleasant view of the beach also and we enjoyed fantastic weather on a long Easter weekend in 2007 before it decided to turn to Autumn the following week.

Well the title should ensure that this page gets more searches and hits. But it is true as Naked Ladies are a type of flower, and here they are growing in their hundreds at Opito Bay in Coromandel.

The island seemingly floating in the sky in the middle of the picture is Rangitoto, seen from Coromandel near Tapu, New Zealand. This is a late afternoon shot with the Sun's rays coming down from the clouds and a colourful sky. Click on the picture and then pick ALL SIZES to see it larger.