Sunday Snapshot

Thirty kilometres south of where I live is the small town of Katikati (the Maori name means to nibble or shear). It is popular with tourists for the murals which are painted on almost every wall or building. Many of them feature scenes or figures from the town's history, others are whimsical or simply decorative. I have posted about Katikati here.

 

Last autumn I went to try to photograph all or most of the murals. 

Some of them were difficult to capture, and it wasn't a very good day in terms of light, 

but here are two.

This is probably my favourite. It's a whole wall showing an original homestead near the town:

Here's a section in close-up:

And I like the details in this one, especially the cat and the hens:

I hope you have a particularly happy Sunday!

Sunday Snapshot: Walls

Today's hitherto unposted shots are some I took of a few of the large, mostly building-height painted or tiled installations that we have around the outside walls of our school.

Click to embiggen.

This one, which is painted, includes a number of native birds:

 

On a central block which has the washrooms and locker rooms, etc, 

there are large tiled "signs" for the female side:

 

and the male side (the phoenix is our school emblem):

All along the outside of one building there are depictions of
various aspects of college life.
Here are some of them:

Finally, an enormous painted mural right along the side of the art block was done
a couple of years ago by some Year 10 (15 yrs old) students.
These are some samples of the work:

Happy Sunday!

Sunday Snapshot

This morning I visited the small town of Katikati, which publicises itself as The Mural Town.

Murals are found on buildings all over the town, depicting the people and events 

of the town's past. Here are two of them, one on the side of the Library, and the 

second one just on the side of a shop:

There are many more, but it was an overcast morning, and the town was so busy that I couldn't get near them for cars and people. I'll have to go back on a quiet Sunday afternoon.