We’re keeping it nice and simple today. Today’s images are close to Layton’s heart – Christmas goodies! Owing to the fact that I’m not dedicated enough to cook an entire Christmas meal to take photos of it, here is a small selection of Layton’s favourites (excluding the turkey as per the aforementioned not being dedicated enough).
Category Archives: Random Photos
12 Days of Christmas (Images) – Day 6
We’ve reached the halfway mark in our series and today we’re taking a little look at some Christmas trees (unfortunately these are of the fake variety, but decoratable all the same).
You might notice a bit of smoke in the background of a couple of images…no the lights didn’t get too hot and catch fire. We are actually doing a little experimenting with a smoke machine for another project and couldn’t resist having a wee go with the trees – just to entertain ourselves if we’re honest.
12 Days of Christmas (Images) – Day 5
Today we are celebrating one of my favourite things about Christmas…Lights! There’s nothing more fascinating at this time of year than taking a bit of time out to do the Christmas lights circuit.
If you haven’t already been out, why not head out into your neighbourhood. What better excuse for a nice family drive – or park up and go for a stroll. People put so much effort into making their houses look amazing that it would almost be criminal not to get out and appreciate all their hard work (not to mention the money it must cost them).
In Invercargill we have a Light Up Your House competition, these are a couple of the entrants this year.
12 Days of Christmas (Images) – Day 4
Wow! Day 4 already. Today we are celebrating the tireless worker bees – the people that work behind the scenes to make things happen. The ones that do all the work and often don’t get the credit (I’m sure many of us can relate) – today is all about the elves. These guys were too cute.
Leave a comment and let us know how you think we’re doing with our 12 Days series thus far, we’d love some feedback.
12 Days of Christmas (Images) – Day 3
I’m not entirely sure what trains have to do with Christmas, but they always seem to feature in Christmas decorations and Christmas movies such as The Polar Express – so there must be something in it! If anyone knows, please leave a comment to enlighten me.
In the meantime…who doesn’t like trains! So whether they actually have anything to do with Christmas or not, today’s all about the Christmas Trains.
12 Days of Christmas (Images) – Day 2
It’s not Christmas until someone plays Snoopy’s Christmas (AKA Snoopy vs The Red Baron). Since we couldn’t track down a decent Snoopy for today’s post we decided to dig into our archives and pull out some shots from 2008’s Warbirds Over Wanaka – International Airshow.
Enjoy! And don’t forget to come back tomorrow to check out what we have planned for Day 3.
12 Days of Christmas (Images) – Day 1
To celebrate Christmas this year we thought we would post our take on the twelve days of Christmas. This has absolutely nothing to do with the Twelve Days of Christmas song, except that we “borrowed” the idea and gave it our spin.
Over the next twelve days we’re going to post a Christmas related image or images. So here we are at Day 1 – Candles in Remembrance of those that can’t be with us this Christmas.
Be sure to check back on the blog tomorrow to see what Day 2 brings!
Animal Corner – SPCA Photos
Every month Layton heads down to the SPCA to get pictures of some of the animals available for re-homing. These pictures are published in a monthly feature page called Animal Corner in the local weekly newspaper The Invercargill Eye. Here are a couple of the standout cuties from this month.
Burt Munro Challenge 2013
Good luck to everyone involved in The Burt Munro Challenge this weekend. Looks like the weather might pack a bit of a sad, but it wouldn’t be a BMC weekend without a bit of weather to spice it up.
Southern Katipo 2013
These images are from the Bluff portion of Southern Katipo 2013. This combined the New Zealand Defence Force and various allies and partners from around the world. Over a two week period they have been carrying out various exercises in the fictional country Mainlandia.
As part of the exercise the HMNZS Canterbury and the French Frigate came to Bluff to evacuate a pre-selected group of people acting as ex-pat New Zealanders needing to be evacuated from Mainlandia.
