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Chengdu, China
Ā Hi! Long time no post, but I am back in the States with my desktop ā it turns out I really hate editing on my otherwise wonderful laptop.
Almost two years ago I went to China and Iāve started editing my photos from there, finally! First up, my first days in Chengdu.
I visited the Wenshu temple, a Buddhist temple said to be established around 500 AD, thought it was destroyed by a fire at theā¦
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St. Kilda Beach
Hello again! I know itās been a good long while, but I was really sick in Australia* and then the semester started at school, then I went to China, then I went home, then I came back to New Zealand and was just out of the habit of blogging.
But my friend and I went to the beach today and I brought my camera and it inspired me to post again! First, the seagulls.
I love the seagulls here! Theyāreā¦
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The Great Barrier Reef
The Great BarrierĀ Reef
Finally, I return with my diving pictures! Theyāre not great quality ā I rented a camera and it was definitely not my usual Canon. Plus, underwater photography is a real skill and I lack it ā maybe one day!
This giant little dude is a parrot fish ā they were huge, colorful and everywhere.
Divers! They were also fun to watch. I did a bit of snorkeling and I have to say it was really amusing toā¦
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Sunrise on the Great Barrier Reef
Sunrise on the Great BarrierĀ Reef
When I was in Australia, I went on a 3 day live aboard and on the third day we did a very early morning dive.Ā I got up just a tad bit earlier than everyone else and went to watch the sunrise.
Before the sun could be seen, but after the sky was light, a whole bunch of birds flew by.
And then the sunrise started!
There were huge dramatic clouds and loads of gorgeous colors.
Different viewsā¦
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Rottnest Island
I visited the #quokkas on #rottnestisland! #australia #perth #wildlifephotography
On Superbowl Sunday (thatās a Monday for Australia), I took the ferry out to Rottnest Island ā which was playing the game! ā and rented a bike to roam around the island.
The outer edges of the island are gorgeous sandy beaches, with plenty of sunshine and beautiful blue skies.
And on the inside are large salt lakes with sea foam on the rock beaches.
The island is populated by marsupials knownā¦
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Caversham Wildlife Park
The first of the #australian adventures - all the essential Australian wildlife!
Hello again! Sorry for the long (and unexpected) hiatus.Ā I spent my south oā the equator summer doing an internship in Australia, which was excellent, but also developed a nasty kidney infection. By the time I was over it, I was back in NZ and starting school, and Iām just now getting caught up on all non-essentials.
For my first big Australian adventure, I visited friends in Perth and theyā¦
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Grandma
In memory of my grandmother. #lovedones #lgbt
Hello! This is a memorial piece for my grandma, who passed away recently. Grandma My grandmother passed December 26th, 2017. Born during the Depression, she never imagined the events that would occur during her nearly 92 years on Earth.Ā Here are three memories that made me realize how much the world changed for her. In 2014, at the age of 88, she came to visit me in Boston with her friend,ā¦
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Dunedin Beer and Food Festival
#beerandfoodfestival #dunedin enjoying the Dunedin Beer and Food Festival!
Dunedin has an annual beer and food festival (heavy on the beer.)Ā I couldnāt get a ticket but I ended up being able to volunteer, which was a fantastic experience. I worked putting wristbands on people ā it was intense! This was about 30 minutes before the festival opened and the line continued on like this for about an hour and a half. Ā Ā Ā The first thing I saw (once I had done my shift) wasā¦
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Dunedin Around Town Part II
A stroll around #Dunedin to show off my #newzealand city.
This post is the walk back from the yoga studio, a continuation of my first Dunedin post. This is the public library, one of my favorite places in any city! I usually pop in every couple of weeks for an hour or so.Ā The ground floor has a big 4-sided screen display which is usually playing images of NZ wildlife.Ā Itās apparently quite contentious ā the library posts (and responds to) all of theā¦
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Dunedin Botanical Gardens, Part III
This is the non-rose portion of my last trip ā a beautiful sunny day where I had a lovely walk and even made a new friend!Ā This is a little grove of flowers by the Night ānā Day (a 24 hour convenience store, or dairy; the only place in town thatās open past 9 or 10 pm.)Ā The bees were buzzing around and I had to snap a shot! The lights shining through a 100 year old tree at the botanic gardens.ā¦
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Americans Abroad: Thanksgiving 2017
#Thanksgiving abroad. #americansabroad #newzealand #food #foodphotography
New Zealand, of course, doesnāt celebrate Thanksgiving (and doesnāt seem to understand that turkey is a delectable and delicious food!) but us Americans banded together to celebrate ā and a bunch of Kiwis came along to help celebrate as well! Colin, a Kiwi student the year above me, started things off by making punch. It looked pretty yummy! (My stomach doesnāt really do alcohol so I avoided it,ā¦
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Dunedin Botanic Garden, Part II
#flowers and a #sunset at the Dunedin Botanic Garden.
Itās full on spring now and I went back to the gardens to see what was to be seen.Ā The gardens are only a half mile or so from my house, so itās the easiest thing in the world to pop down Saturday or Sunday after finishing up cooking or some housework. The gardens have a great variety of plants and Iām trying to get the names of them when I can, but a lot of it isnāt labelled.Ā So please feelā¦
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Dunedin, Part I
The sights of #Dunedin; the #streetart, the #penguins, the #yoga and the #river!
I finally remembered to take my camera with me as I walked around town.Ā Dunedin is a very cute city, but Iām not great at street photography so Iām not really doing it justice. I took my camera on a walk from my department to the yoga studio I go to. Much like San Marcos back home in Texas, Dunedin is dominated by the university culture.Ā Itās finals time here, and a couple of students wereā¦
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Roses at the Botanic Gardens
#Roses from the #dunedinbotanic gardens. #newzealand #flowers
The first wave of roses have bloomed at the Botanic Gardens here in Dunedin ā theyāre also starting to bloom around the city, which is making for some lovely sights and smells on my daily commute! Thereās about 4 or 5 rose beds at the gardens and theyāre incredibly gorgeous now that theyāre starting to bloom.Ā Most of the rose bushes hadnāt bloomed fully and some hadnāt bloomed at all yet, so Iāmā¦
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Birds at the Aviary
#parrots represent at the #dunedinbotanicgardens. #birds #pretty
I went to the Dunedin Botanic Gardens looking for the azaleas but ended up getting sidetracked at the aviary.Ā Ā Iām pretty sure this guy is an Australian King Parrot ā he posed so beautifully for me.Ā He was very high energy and kept on flitting across the cage with his buddy. Meet Sid, a cockatoo who says āHello!ā and gargles āHow are you?ā in the most adorable Kiwi accent. When he first spokeā¦
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Cockle Hunting
hunting for #cockles on the #beaches of #newzealand is quite the #adventure!
One of my film-making classmates was looking for footage of cockles (a type of NZ clam) so she kindly drove us out to a little inlet so we could āhelpā her look for them.Ā Of course, we mostly ended upĀ lounging in the sunshine and enjoying the views. The seagulls here have so much personality ā theyāre quite large, incredibly loud, and very opinionated.Ā Iāve taken a shining to the little brats!ā¦
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Part 1 of many! The botanic gardens here are set up like the Arnold Arboretum back in Boston ā free to enter and quite easy to wander in and out of.Ā And theyāre only a half mile or so from my house!Ā
Here, though, theyāre very centrally located, which is awesome ā I like to walk through them at night to get to one of the grocery stores.Ā Going during the day obviously has its benefits as well!
For the first three months I was here, I was convinced that only pink and red and white flowers bloomed, but as it turns out, thereās lots of orange and yellow ones and even some blue ā they all just started to bloom a month later than the pink-and-white ones.
In particular, this week the rhododendrons were blooming! One of my professors, a former botanist, told us that this was the week to go and she was absolutely right.
I have no idea what these flowers are (if you know, please let me know in the comments!) but they were gorgeous.Ā Iād love to have them as border plants in a garden.
And thanks to the botanical gardenās labels, I finally figured out these rose-looking plants are actually camellias! The flowers look similar to roses, but the leaves and smell are wrong.
This is a magnolia flower.Ā Magnolia trees are my favorite trees but more importantly ā I think I found Thumbelinaās home!
More of the rhododendron blooms ā theyāre quite striking!
This was the only landscape shot I took ā all of the walkway through the rhododendron and azalea gardens was lined with trees and bushes like this and it created a very peaceful atmosphere.Ā Several people were out sketching, reading, or sitting with friends.
And finally, these flowers ā not sure what they are but I would love to know! Their shading reminds me of faded Leviās.
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Finally, pictures of the adorable baby ducklings I posted about earlierĀ ā arenāt they adorable? Their mom was trying to herd them away from the humans but they were having none of it.
#flowers are blooming at the #dunedinbotanicalgardens. #spring is here and it's gorgeous! Part 1 of many! The botanic gardens here are set up like the Arnold Arboretum back in Boston - free to enter and quite easy to wander in and out of.Ā