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Early morning view across the bay of Kaikora on the North-East coast

of New Zealand's South Island.

Dreamy late afternoon landscapes along North-East coast of New

Zealand's south island.

Overcast rainy day in Christchurch ... great flowers in the botanical

gardens still made for a fun shoot.

I'm not sure if this is best put in Nature or Macro for critique?

Regardless it's one of my favourites from an otherwise overcast and

wet day in Christchurch's lovely botanical gardens.

Does anybody have any ideas on how to prevent the dithering effect

that occurs when uploading B&W photos like this (background not a nice

graduated shade, but rather in different shade bands) ... my local

copy which is a jpg < 100Kb doesn't exhibit this prior to uploading to

photo.net

Other than that, I like the shot, especially in B&W.

Any thoughts on how this shot works? Seems kind of abstract to me, but

I like the vivid colours.

Shooting at a zoo is frustrating ... people's heads, bars, barriers

etc all get in the way of a decent shot. I'm pretty happy with this

photo, even though a few blades of grass still got between me and my

subject - does having this obstacle out of focus help or is it still a

distraction?

Not sure what works best, this B&W version or the

href="http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2981764"> color

version

This is one of my favourite shots taken in Melbourne Botanical Gardens

the other day - I like the balance of colours and light in this shot -

wonder what other people think?

Not sure what category this photo would fall into - just some

interesting photo subjects I came across one day...

Step back in time along some of these wonderful alleyways along Little

Flinders Street...