A Friday night busker dressed in traditional Japanese garb. He seemed to enjoy the camera and attracted quite a crowd just before I left him to it. Queen Street next to Vulcan Lane.
Jul 042010
Jan 252010
An early morning jogger pauses to look at a luxury cruise ship docked in the cities international port of call.
A couple of buskers on Saturday night. I think she was singing an Aretha Franklin number and well! She certainly wasn’t shy about dancing about and enjoying the performance.
Inside one of the newest buildings at Auckland University, the Owen Glenn Building. It was completed in 2008 as the new home for it’s business school and named after the very generous expatriate New Zealand entrepreneur, Owen G. Glenn.
One of the international guest speakers at a free one-day public astronomy symposium hosted by the University of Aucklands’ Faculty of Science. Dr Jack Lissauer, from NASA Ames Research Center (US), spoke about the search for habitable extrasolar planets and what they’ve found so far. Note his very cool Kepler cap!
Jan 202010
A Synagogue built in 1885, which it remained until 1967 when the congregation moved to the current one on Greys Avenue. The building is now a branch of the National Bank. It resides in the University district on the corner of Princes Street and Bowen Avenue.
Jan 182010
A fresh fruit stands opens for it first day of business on Shortland Street. Apples NZD$1.
Expensive designer clothing stores line the bottom of the Bucklands Building. One of our oldest buildings still standing, built around 1897 but not named until 1936 when J.H Buckland & Co. Ltd moved in with their enigneering supplies business. It is currently interim office spaces and the top floor is a very nice place to work in indeed. It is due for a complete restoration as part of the Britomart district redevelopment plan.
Jan 162010
Keep an eye on this Symonds Street movie billboard, it has so far managed to predict, with about 95% accuracy, every big budget flop to ever grace the silver screen. Avatar, however, seems to have broken this board’s uncanny winning streak.
Jan 152010
The sign for Ima glows orange as the afternoon sun filters through its stained glass canopy. This middle eastern resturant used to be Ima Cuisine on Shortland street but moved down to Fort Street a few years ago. Ima and Ibn is its full name, being mother in hebrew, to reflect its Israeli roots and Ibn, meaning son in arabic, for the new Palestinian partner.