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#iPhonePhotography | 春天 – 土星- Spring #Saturn #Cassini – 16th September 2017- in a Auckland’s starry night….

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On a soon to be cloudy night on the that follows from 16th September 2017 Auckland –New Zealand, also on that previous only a half a day ago it was it was the final moments of the Cassini probe that ended its mission re-entry of the Gaseous planet Saturn, as it’s Isotopic Generator runs out of fuel of its final half-life, in which that generator provides the primary power supply to the rest of the probe.. in which its journey started very late last century 1997, the year that Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong was hand back to China in that year in becoming a Special Administrative Region..

As Cassini journey, adventured within twenty years since it journey the long way round with travelling in using gravitational assistance, hopping from planetary bodies, in slingshot way carefully planned with mathematically teamwork timely precession manner..

As I arrived from finishing work, at the observatory, arriving home I geared loaded up NASA-JPL’s eyes on the solar system application.. in which, also I loaded up NASA-JPL’s live stream for the first time in Cassini’s control room in 360 live stream with various layers of commentaries during the live stream in which shown Cassini’s final journey as it still continuous broadcasting live stream also working at the same time of still streaming its collecting data along the way, in which till its final moments…

As I filming Saturn’s live-ish only averagely one hour also averagely one billion kilometres ago footage the night after, seeing the various divisions of Saturn’s rings that inspired the name Cassini whom discovered the rings of Saturn, in which the name was symbolic motion to name the deep space probe.. As you can see the different layers hues brown and metallic greys within the divisions of the rings of rocks and ice in various assortments of sizes… In that major separation between two rings is 4,800 Kilometers wide.

Among that night, the Largest planet Jupiter currently in the bodice of the Constellation Virgo, retired earlier in the night, as to the Saturn in which in between the Constellations of Sagittarius also Scorpio.. In which bringing in spring sort off warmly still cold…

#YesterdayInAuckland | #Auckland- one Mid Late August Wintery Mission Bay – Rangitoto Island- A Gallery-

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During on one weekend mid Late August 2017, One  wintery Weekend Auckland  heading to  get warmer as it headed towards the Spring season as the daylight seemingly getting warmer and longer.. Also wishing that there was no daylight savings for the summery season… As the weekend warmingly with the ample amount of daylight spreading….

wide View of Mission bay..

There’s one place in Auckland urban, in which is Mission bay, a urban beach line in which you could attend to after work, the weekend in which to escape from work, of the daily chores of home.. Mission bay sits midway along the Tamaki Drive Auckland, with a wide range of local amenities, as to a cosy neighbourhood of cafes, restaurants…  The Beach lies in the Auckland Waitemata Harbour, in which Mission bay has some key historical landmarks, Bastion Point, Trevor Moss Davis Memorial Fountain, with a neighbourhood Gallery…

one of the greatest urban escapes in Auckland is Mission Bay.. away from the office…. with Rangitoto Island in view..
Brown island viewing , scenic pictured untouched…
Rangitoto Island with the teal mussel textured water ripples of Hauraki Gulf…
with crystal teal mussel ripples water viewing Brown Island is like an oil. based painting..
once a molten Scoria rock toffee formation becomes a landmark history of volcanic Auckland..

Among that it has some interesting rock formations into when Auckland’s Volcanic past with as you walk north wise of the beach you can see un sandy buried the frozen lava formations layering like a molten Scoria rock toffee formation… also in the distance is the Rangitoto Island once of Auckland’s Volcanic past in which it lies dormant for a while in the Hauraki Gulf. Rangitoto Island name means Bloody Sky, as it was formed over the period of six thousand years that gate crashed Motutapu Island….

wide view taken from a St Heliers – Achiles Point viewing platform on an August Weekend

It recent residences were from the IWI Ngāti Paoa until recently in the European  Colonization it housed local New Zealand residences with their make shift housing as seen along the wharf locations of the island.. Among wartime it housed World War Two to house United States troops to store mines, also barracks as a look out as to a Communications out post for war time New Zealand…..

 

#YesterdayInAuckland |#Auckland Afternoon wintery – 11- August 2017- One tree Hill – Maungakiekie- A Gallery

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One tree Hill – Maungakiekie– One 11- August 2017-  day  the summit is located in the heart of Auckland City New Zealand, in which it sits in between Epsom, Royal Oak, Greenlane, also Onehunga…  One Tree Hill Can be describe as an organic viewing platform like how long time ago like in Victoria Peak in Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong,  but without all the modern commercial amenities in which Victoria Peak has.. In which the Summit has constantly retains is organic Edwardian look with its rich colonial past as to its previous historically nature as it was once was a Fortified Pa Maori Site village in which numerous archaeological features still can be found while the present has caught it up with it past…

One winter afternoon day is the looking in between two harbours, Manukau to towards the Waitemata harbour……

Among viewing from the summit, it’s also the final resting place one of the founding fathers of Auckland Sir Logan Campbell, in which he’s rested in the same location where once the Marae- a community meeting house hall.. Among nearby is a flatbed in which is lowered is where the Pa’s Chieftain Residence once located…

 

Once a Maori Fortified Pa site.. there are some interesting terraces in which these terraces was once used for farming vegetables like any other organised farming techniques that dates back to Ancient China..
Among the newly growth of trees that sits at the summit, it’s in good company of wiser trees that it’ll guide them through Auckland’s time..
The other side of One Tree Hill is grove road.. in which cathedral tree arches a corridor for a afternoon runner with his reflection running as well..
Among many features of One Tree Hill is also a living farm with sheep also cattle in which shows the public of how Auckland centrally once was..
During wartime.. World war two One Tree Hill, Cornwall Park was once a United States military barracks in which this area field was place where it’s training also a well played rugby..
One Tree Hill also Cornwall Park provides the mixture of stories of native and colonial trees Auckland telling the history of Auckland…

Among its previous past of as great strategic viewing location for defenses, now presently it’s now a civilian kind, for the people to view organically of Auckland has a whole instead of the Inorganic view of Sky Tower in Victoria Street.. Among also its civilian use is the obelisk is the most visible Auckland Landmark in which is a memorial to the Maori People also a visual observation referencing landmark for incoming aircraft to land at Jean Batten International Airport- Auckland International Airport…..

 

During wartime.. World war two One Tree Hill, Cornwall Park was once a United States military barracks in which this area field was place where it’s training also a well played rugby..

Viewing from the vantage point, you can see most of the viewing range of the Waitemata harbour, towards northward of Albany- As to the southward is the rural Boundaries of Auckland, swing around that view is Thames, Coromandel….. Westward is the beyond the Waitakere’s ranges towards Piha towards the Tasman Ocean…

#YesterdayInAuckland |#Auckland-30th July 2017- Wintery weekend cold amberic warm Sunset – One Tree Hill- A Gallery-

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As during the weekend 30th July 2017 of Auckland, that week was the coldest week, but with the clearest of all frozen nights of great of looking at the Starry night.  In one iconic organic viewing location is One Tree Hill, in which location have breath taking views than to the Auckland CBD’s Sky Tower…One Tree hill, One Tree Hill Domain Located in the Heart of in between Onehunga, Royal Oak Greenlane also Epsom..

Looking in this direction towards the Tasman ocean towards Hong Kong.. as the coldest nights about to come.. with crispy starry nights.. with the remaining sunset warmth of the day..

One Tree Hill wintery wise with all encompassing views of the Auckland, in which as the best urban viewing sunrise sunset spots for Auckland- as still one of the most popular local also Tourist spots in Auckland also it’s free aswell to travel upwards to the summit among with the best spots of photographing Auckland in way it’s like Auckland’s Hong Kong Victoria Peak without the trams besides the northern Mountain Eden in which is closer towards the Auckland’s Central…  Also it’s one of the most identity Auckland Landmarks historically with the obelisk marking its spot also visually navigating for aircraft, as to it’s the resting spot for Auckland’s founding fathers Sir Logan Campbell…

Looking in this direction towards the Tasman ocean towards Hong Kong.. as the coldest nights about to come.. with crispy starry nights.. with the remaining sunset warmth of the day..

 Watching the sunset settle down for the day, as it finally attempts to warm up the remaining warmth for the Auckland landscape in looking downwards to the Auckland west coast shorelines beyond the Waitakere’s in which looking a further south you can see the mouth of the Manukau Harbour, once a treacherous harbour to navigate for in the colonial days sailing ships, in which now days with navigation technologies the harbour isn’t so Treacherous..  As the sun settles down beyond the Waitakere ranges onwards looking towards the Tasman Ocean towards Australia then onwardly to the direction to Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong…..

#YesterdayInAuckland |#Auckland- Managere Bridge township and the old Bridge- A Gallery-

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At one time in Auckland History, a Township naming Mangere Bridge, located in the Manukau Harbour, Used to be a major suburban hub that interconnects between Mangere Bridge to the Onehunga, in which that township was busy  in up to the mid 1980’s as the final construction of the new constructed  Managere Bridge that became operational in 1983…. In which took ten years to build, to replace the previous one in which still stands today….as a recreational park, part of the Community, in where people now days used it to walk to work, school.. Recreationally fish from the Harbour, with as part of Auckland’s bicycle peddling network also is a resting spot for resting..

Before 1983, the old Mangere Bridge constructed in 1914, it was widely used to the point where bridge up to moment in 1980’s it was beyond saturation point more than Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong’s old Kai Tak International Airport in Kowloon Bay   As the its replacement was still finalized in construction after a ten year stall after stall in construction due to labor disputes..  Back then driving on the old bridge in which Coronation road that lead up into the Mangere Bridge Township was intense intensified as the new bridge waits…  With one of the known traffic also it was one of the known roadways that link up travelling in from Auckland CBD towards Onehunga towards Mangere Bridge Township towards the Jean Batten international Airport- Auckland international Airport…

The Mangere Bridge Township Village Going through a revitalization thriving in its own right..
The Place has a strong sense of history.. one concerning of Mangere Mountain in which used to be a Maori Pa site where one was fortified……
bike riding is the now replacement of the Old Bridge in which previously serving the heavy automobiles that once saturated it’s tarmac roads..
this Coronation Road was once a vital road that connected to Onehunga towards the Auckland Central , it restfully enjoys a humble pace of life…..
The Old Bridge restored, modified to its humble retirement in which that retirement is recreational with local fishing in the comunity…
The Old Bridge was a revolutionary in it’s concrete construction in which it was stronger build in 1914…
Onehunga Wharf in it’s previous years of early last century this Wharf used to be alot busier in carrying alot freight.. It still does, but with Fish Mongers Fishing Trawlers making out in early hours in the morning to catch early catch.. as to this used to be a ferrying point to get around to the Auckland Central..
recreational fishing of the Old Mangere Bridge..
Most of the Township still have it;s soul in which you can see it soul through the character also this place has the best pie ( Hong Kong Bakery) in Auckland….

 

The old Mangere Bridge in which still stands today in which constructed during wartime 1914 in World War one and two, was design to be a wartime bridge the way how it was layout and design was to have elements of being Anti-Tank block, with some sentry towers… as a procedure the harbour also the bridge was mined for just in case.. Interesting enough the bridge itself was designed lowered as to counter any larger wartime or patrol boats from entry the mouth of the harbour…

bike riding is the now replacement of the Old Bridge in which previously serving the heavy automobiles that once saturated it’s tarmac roads..

During those times when the old Mangere Bridge was active, traffic thoroughfare through the Mangere Bridge Township was a lot more intensified than as now today… as now days the traffic is no longer through the main street of the village as it’s completely diverted through Auckland’s South-western Motorway –SH20.. As the large component of traffic is diverted the township has recently enjoyed its now provincial humbling as its thriving growing local community…..