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Pretty Ugly
Once again, for the fortnight straddling Easter, Nights lays the Conundrum to rest and instead asks for you to provide some visual offerings... This time we're seeking the wonderful in the waste.
So start looking for the beautiful in the banal, the sensational in the sad, the magnifience in the muck, the delightful in the dirt, and the tremedous in the trash.
Send your inspiring images to nights@radionz.co.nz or post on the Nights on RNZ National Facebook page.
Laurence Greig captured drying time by the rail tracks in Mumbai, India.
Gav Schist found these intriguing trails in the mud while fishing.
Caroline Etherington found this floral delight poking out between the cobblestones of her drive.
Ann Burney's sister was moved by the ducks swimming among the ruins in Christchurch.
Helen Vicary took this striking shot of a house cat in Granada, Spain.
Chris Nordstrom photographed these paper flowers made and placed in road cones on the fifth anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake.
Chris Nordstrom photographed these paper flowers made and placed in road cones on the fifth anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake.
Laurence Greig found this beautiful message on a red brick wall in New York.
Christina in Dunedin describes this Pretty Ugly photo thus; lilliputian alpine oasis rings a (very old) sheep carcass high in the Pisa Range.
Murray has a thing for abandoned buildings. Especially in rural settings. Here's one a "much unloved" house in Hawkes Bay.
Somehow even the tagging looks lovely in this scene. Thanks Murray.
Ruins. Old Freezing works, Tokomaru Bay. Murray.
Once were farm buildings. Murray. Te Kouma, Coromandel.
Jack G caught a beautiful blue sky after a very ugly storm; Cyclone Winston, SavuSavu, Vanua Levu, Fiji.
Don found this cicada on a very rusty pipe.
Warwick Smith captured this image in a UN established refugee camp for the Rohingya people in Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma). Despite being made homeless and stateless in the country where they were born, these children attend a make-shift school within the camp.
Anurag writes; "This was a stark contrast to my mood to rush to work one early morning."
Michael sent us this photo of "gutter beauty" on Colombo Street, Christchurch.
Industrial splendor. Freezing works. Richard, Balclutha.
Who said power lines spoil the view? Richard, Balclutha.
The only thing worse than swallowing a dead rat...? Sal took this shot of a rather fine Kiore rat.
Part of a disappearing communal world as the city modernises its housing. Trish, Shanghai, China.
Our RNZ colleague Tracy Neal, accidently took this photo of the inside of her backpack with her phone. Shades of Gordon Walters' Koru?
Richard took this close-up of a pretty ugly spider.
Jill writes; "I met the owner of these feet at Blue Lake, Nelson Lakes National Park. He had lost the toenails months earlier, not long after he started walking Te Araroa, from Cape Reinga." Pretty impressive.
Jacqui's ten year old son Francis has a good eye for the beauty in the mundane. Witness this shot he took of a garage sale.
Or this shot of the sky reflected back from a puddle.
Another slice of life from by Francis.
So does Andrew!
The best things in life, photographed by Andrew.
Like the framing in this shot from Lex.
Kylie caught this lovely collection of leaf litter.
USA, Past – future. Laurence Greig.
Rose says she took this photo of her garden through a rain splattered window. The passionvine hopper is turned golden by the flash. Rain can be beautiful in certain lights.
Kathryn writes; "from my bath last night, before running the water! Taken very close up, with a flash, on my little Canon IXUS camera. The spider was actually very little too". Turns out it was a white tail! Lucky she wrapped it in a handkerchief and dropped it out the window...
Tractor art at Waiuku. Cheers, Lex.
Vicki caught this rainbow sheen of fuel at the Nelson Marina.
Monica writes; "I have this stone I picked up somewhere and think the patterns made by the fossilised shells add to the beauty of an ordinary stone."
Neil from Little River sent this through, which he describes as "a mildly sarcastic graffito view of tourists in Venice. Love those Euro eyes!".
Another from Neil; a long disused petrol pump on the roadside, Whanganui River. Remember gallons?
A weird wire web in Kyoto. Clive.
Laurence saw this in Los Angeles.
Gabrielle among the ghouls. Paris Catacombs. Laurence Greig.
Lichen on Unahi wharf, Rangaunu Harbour. Claire.
Frank spotted these leaves.
And finally, one from Bryan's own album. Father and son.
The images in this gallery are used with permission and are subject to copyright conditions.