New Zealand

From our contributors: week of May 20, 2013

Have a look at what some of our contributors have published on their blogs:

Mike, our contributor from Japan, published  a post titled One of the 170 Species Called Jatropha Plants is on Okinawa (Photos)

“It’s always a pleasure to give readers some interesting facts about plants and flowers. So, I go to great lengths researching any new ones I capture with the camera. Here are a few photos of Jatropha hastata found in the 21 Century Forest Park.That’s in Nago City, Okinawa, Japan and the plants were photographed Mar 11, 2013.” (more…)

Picture Postcards: A free library in Auckland

From this week we will be looking at libraries, books, reading and literacy on Picture Postcards. I’ve snapped today’s photo in the Wynyard Quarter by the waterfront in Auckland, New Zealand. The man is taking advantage of a cozy reading spot in a ‘take a book, leave a book’ library. And, yes, that is a shipping container!

More book related items:
LX Factory in Lisbon
Librería de Ávila, Buenos Aires’ oldest bookshop
The Bouquinistes of Paris

Picture Postcards: Street scene in Auckland, New Zealand

In February we will show you some street scenes around the world. This is an evening shot of my city, Auckland, with the Sky Tower rising in the background.

See more:
Water Walking in New Zealand
A Doorway in New Zealand
Colours of New Zealand

Picture Postcards: Water walking in New Zealand

For the last in our series of water photos, I wanted to show you this one I took at a local shopping centre here in Auckland. This kind of activity is very popular with Kiwi (New Zealand) children.

Read more:
Games for Children Around the World
Songkran in New Zealand
Traditional Maori Craft in New Zealand

Picture Postcards: A doorway in New Zealand

For our last doorway in the series I am submitting this photo of the entrance to a cafe in Auckland, New Zealand called Benediction.

Read more:
Colours of New Zealand
Languages of New Zealand
Marie in New Zealand

Picture Postcards: A house in New Zealand

Here is my house in Auckland, New Zealand. There are lots of different styles of houses here and this is only one of them, but building Deco houses in the 1940s was fairly popular.

Read more:
Colours of New Zealand
New Zealand Languages
New Zealand Graffiti