2y ago

Snapshot Saturday!

Photo Friday didn't last long (although I may have warned you that I'm terrible at sticking with things) but it's a new month and a new weekend so let's try a weekend challenge instead.

Snapshot Saturday is more about taking candid shots of everyday things, rather than hunting out the perfect shot for a particular prompt. So feel free to share a photo of something from your weekend - before and after shots of gardening progress, the shiny finish on your freshly cleaned vehicle (haha) or a good sunset.

Rules: No NSFW, no shots you didn't take yourself.

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Had a little bit of rain last weekend. That's our tourist rail under the water there...
- That does look like a good time!
- Was it cold? Somehow your photo looks incredibly wet but not freezing.
  
  No, not cold. Just bone drenching wet!
- Wow does that happen often?
  And is the rail just an old railway line or do you use it for something?
  
  Over the rails maybe once every 2-3 years. There's a dual 1.2m diameter culvert there on the left (where that white water is) for what is usually a tiny stream. But sometimes they just can't cope.
  Yes, it's a functional narrow gauge rail that we use to carry passengers to/from the caves and also just as a standalone tourist railway.
Here's a shot of a kererū I saw in a tree a couple of months back. The photo isn't the best but I thought it was a neat encounter.
- The photo isn’t the best but
  But that's the whole point of a snapshot challenge - sharing the moment without worrying about technical bits and pieces. I like this, it looks like they're deliberately posing for you.
Last night was my work do. I don't normally drink but had a few cocktails. This is a midori sour, which came in a glass so big it dwarfed the pints next to it.
- I don't drink either but damn that looks good!
  
  It was much easier to drink than I expected and if it hadn't been so huge I probably would have putting them away.
I made this sauce today!
- Nice! What kind of sauce?
  I'm also having trouble with the scale. Is it a giant wooden spoon or a tiny pot?
  
  Tee hee, now I can't unsee it as a tiny sauce in that picture, but the wooden spoon is a little bigger than the width of my hand. It's a pasta sauce with celery in it.
  Cooking is kind of a big accomplishment for me these days, but it's nice to get back to a sense of eating like "me". I don't think most of us notice in everyday life but food is part of identity.
@shartedchocolate@lemmy.world let's see those pics!
- Here's one of Arthur's pass!
  
  I love this, I'd seriously consider buying this as a print.
  
  Damn! That's some scenery
- And one from around Lake Tekapo
  
  This one feels ominous to me for some reason. Like a mountain in Mordor or something!
Is there some way to mesh this with pixelfed?
- My pictures for here are on pixelfed but I just use ! To embed them.
  Pohutukawa I posted the other day ended up getting shared by a few strangers on mastodon, I was pretty chuffed.
- You can hotlink pixelfed images, but I don't think there's any fancy embedding. Some apps may do it but I'm not sure which if any.
  Feel free to link to photos on pixelfed, though, I don't see any harm in that.
We went to the Auckland botanic gardens for a few hours on Saturday. There was an ultra marathon going in the forest trail in the back. Lots of nice flowers out.
- Beautiful! Do they have much of a smell? I've never seen real pohutukawa, just the local bottlebrush.
  
  Not that I could smell. I love the bottle brushes, too! That's another really cool tree. They are also blooming everywhere right now.
This was of a hydrangea

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