Photo Hunt - Stuck and Sports

Sandi's Photo Hunt - Stuck

We were stuck in traffic in Mumbai, India

Gattina's Photo Hunting - Sports

Exactly a year ago on Sept 9 2011, New Zealand hosted the Rugby World Cup. New Zealand won the cup and are the current world champions.

Here's a picture of my friend and me at the Fanzone in Wellington.

I'm on the left in pink.

Photo Hunt - Quiet and Signs

Sandi's Saturday Photo Hunt - Quiet

Not an easy prompt.

Here is a picture of the Zealandia Karori Sanctuary. We had to be very quiet so we didn't disturb the birds.

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Gattina's Saturday PhotoHunting - Signs

This prompt has appeared time and time again on various blog hops. So I really had to hunt around for this from my archives.

Here's one I took years ago when my son was little. Each year the Silverstream Railway host a Thomas The Tank Engine day. Great fun for the kids and the adults too.

Check out my other posts on signs: 

Fun Signs   Wordless Wednesday Signs    FMTSO Signs

Photo Hunt - Can and Monument

Sandi's Saturday PhotoHunt - Can

Recycling an old picture - taken in Wellington New Zealand. Lucky I had my camera that day.

Gattina's Saturday Photo Hunting - Monuments and Sculptures

There are so many sculptures and monuments all over the world, but I thought I would re-cycle one I had posted over a year ago from one of my favourite cities. Rome is such a beautiful city. I loved every moment of my time there and look forward to visiting again.

So here is the Colosseum, one of Rome's iconic monuments.  This is a monument one has to see to believe. The photograph just does not do it justice.

I had to take 3 pictures and stitch them together - wide angle lens not wide enough and this was way before I owned my first digital camera.

Photo Hunt - Ooooo and Paths

Sandi's Saturday Photo Hunt - Ooooo

I took this a few months ago. So glad I did as Ooooo might have been a hard one to do.

Gattina's Photo Hunting - Paths

Not the best of pictures of the New Zealand countryside (somewhere between Auckland and Wellington) taken from the train, but a path is a path!

Photo Hunt - Ripples and Cooking

 Sandi's Saturday Photo Hunt - Ripples

Pacific Ocean ripples. Both pics taken at Oriental Bay, Wellington.

Gattina's Photo Hunt - Cooking

The making of a kebab at Copper Chimney in Mumbai, India.

Photo Hunt - Taste and Bridges

Sandi's Saturday Photo Hunt - Taste

My favourite food - Indian "chaat"

dahi puri  (Yoghurt, potatoes, sprouted moong beans in a puri) 

my absolute favourite.

pani puri

Gattina's Photo Hunting - Bridges

Auckland Harbour Bridge

taken from the Sky Tower

taken from a moving bus hence a bit blurry

Photo Hunt - Magical and City Hall

Sandi's Photo Hunt - Magical

Magic Kingdom Disney World popped into my head as soon as I saw this prompt ...

So here is Cinderella's Castle - truly magical.

Gattina's Photo Hunting - City Hall

I "hunted" through my collection for a picture of the Wellington Town Hall but no luck - will have to drop by that way one of these days and take a pic.

So instead here is a glimpse of the Auckland Town Hall taken on one of my visits there.

Photo Hunt - Scoop and Children

Sandi's Saturday Photo Hunt - Scoop

So I thought nothing could be more difficult than Zap. How wrong was I - SCOOP? Oh Lord. I couldn't find a single picture for scoop. And then as I walked through the supermarket aisles about 2 hours ago there it was ...

Gattina's Saturday Photo Hunting - Children

My kids refuse to have their photos displayed so instead here are some children I found tucked away in other pics.

at the Te Papa, Museum of New Zealand in Wellington

playing on the beach at Oriental Bay, Wellington

playing at Frank Kitts Park, Wellington waterfront

Sandi's Photo Hunt - Zap

Sandi's Saturday Photo Hunt - Zap

My first thoughts were Zap - oh no what kind of topic is that?  And then  Zap I found some pics from my archives.

So here is a "Churi Dharwalla" - a person who sharpens knives (Churi = knife  Dhar = kinfe edge) in Bombay (Mumbai), India.

Check out my entry for Gattina's Photo Hunting - Advertising

Gattina's Photo Hunting - Advertising

 Gattina's Photo Hunt - Advertising

Advertising in Bombay (Mumbai), India. This is a great place to capture advertising as there are billboards everywhere. Here are some pics I took on my various visits to Bombay.

And here are some pics from Wellington, New Zealand

at the Te Papa

at Oriental Bay

Frank Kitts Park

Yep, we see some fun things now and then

In case you're wondering what happened to the ABC Wednesday series, I decided to stop it through this blog. As I'm also posting through my Someday Somewhere blog, I thought I'd give some more time to other linky's. But please do check out my ABC entries at Someday Somewhere where I'm doing a music round. It's a lot of fun.

And last but not least, check out my entry for Sandi's Photo Hunt - Zap 

Photo Hunt - Loud and Old

Sandi's Photo Hunt - Loud

Niagara Falls taken from the tunnels under the falls - the sound is deafening.

Gattina's Photo Hunting - Old

Some old things taken at the Otago Settler's Museum in Dunedin.

Photo Hunt - Point and Circles

This week's Photo Hunt Themes are Point  and  Circles.

Oh no was the thought that ran through my head.

And then as I went through some photos I found 2 absolutely perfect ones taken just over a year ago when I went down memory lane and visited my school again.

I wrote a post on my school on my other blog Someday Somewhere - Do-over recently. School must be on my mind!


Sandi's Photo Hunt  - Point

my friend pointing at a desk in our Standard (Grade) 9 classroom.

Gattina's Photo Hunting - Circles

the school quadrangle - quite different from how we knew it.

Photo Hunt - Vintage and Heart

Sandi's Saturday Photo Hunt - Heart

A collection of my heart trinket boxes

 

my favourite one

Gattina's Photo Hunting  - Vintage

at the Cadbury Chocolate factory in Dunedin

also linking to Sepia Scenes #162