Pick Up Sticks

Who remembers the game Pick up Sticks, well here in Picton there is a huge game of pick up sticks going on.

In Port Chalmers we saw the containers being off loaded from the ships and now in Picton timber is being exported from New Zealand to other parts of the world.

[Joyce]

Great game and a fun title Babs. Such a huge amount of tree trunks. All such a uniform shape and size.

[maree_sanderson]

love the repetitions in this one...fav

[Lee]

I'd give this shot a "tilt shift" effect. Still an interesting image all the same.

[Hazel]

Great stick textures!

[Peter]

Reminds me of the chocolate Matchmaker sticks, lovely detail, light and composition Babs:)

[Beryl Lloyd]

A grand place for a game of giant kerrplonk !! Great detail ,light shadows and textures !

[Loopy-Lou]

Great game, loved it. Fab shot!

[Denise Wood]

Terrific capture Babs :)

[sally agnew]

So much timber, hope they plenty of younger stock to replace the exported timber. I like how they are stacked so neatly :)

[Corinne]

so many !!

[Jane Morley]

I love this shot. Glad to know we are not the only ones to like this. Ed and I stood for about half an hour just watching all this going on! At the time I thought we were crazy!

[Sally Ings]

Cool title! You wouldn't want one of those wood piles collapsing!

[Debbie]

My goodness..... all of yhose poor trees cut down.
Excellent shot by the way

[Merrelyn]

Hmmm pick up sticks for giants :)

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Wow, look at all those logs. Great shot. I remember that game. It was fun to play.

[gloria jones]

This is a cool shot...great composition, lines, shapes

[bkb in the city]

Nice shot. Must be fun to watch

[Margaret Brown]

Nice lines and textures, super capture

[M0ments in time]

Good grief that will take him hours 😊

[Lady Magpie (Heather)]

There are a few matches in those logs Babs, I like this capture. FAV

[KWind]

Cool image!

[Paula W]

He's got his work cut out. A really interesting shot.

[Pat Knowles]

Really interesting Babs, we will look out for that. How did you find the ferry?

[Sebastian Gritt]

Sort of 'Pick Up Sticks for Adults'. Now I recon my mum's still got hers somewhere. I bet this would look equally fab in b&w, Babs!?

[ShirleyB]

What a brilliant vantage point you have for this great shot.

[Christina Helliwell]

What a fascinating scene. Great viewpoint and composition too.

[ChristineL]

Great shot, looks like a laborious job though!

[Margo]

Great find

[Yeshanghai]

What a great game!

[Pam]

That's a lot of logs. Cool shot.

[Taffy]

This is fantastic! And what a perfect comparison to the game. I like how your POV has made these huge logs seem like sticks.

[Yao RL]

Fantastic overview and composition.

[Marnie]

Perfect match of picture with caption. Love it to bits. Fav.

[Babs]

@chimfa I watched it for ages too. The cruise ship was moored just by the timber yard. I watched until the thought of a fruit flan and a cup of tea beckoned.

[Babs]

@happypat We weren't on the ferry Pat we were on the cruise ship. It was moored right next to the timber yard.

[AmyJ]

Cool photo!

[Babs]

@thistle @maree_sanderson @gamelee @quietpurplehaze @pcoulson @beryl @bizziebeeme @gilbertwood @hermann @cocobella @salza @deborah63 @merrelyn @mittens @seattlite @bkbinthecity @craftymeg @mbmomentsintime @ladymagpie @kwind @paulaw @365projectorgsebgritt @chrysanthemum @inthecloud5 @777margo @yeshanghai @pamdavis2015 @taffy @yaorenliu @golftragic Thank you all so much. Sorry for the group reply again, but I am still busy spring, or rather summer cleaning our house. The next step is to start painting our bedroom, the lounge room and the dining room.

It was fabulous to watch all the action here. This photo was taken from the cruise ship as it was moored right next to the timber yard.

By the way the driver didn't drop a single log.

[Nova]

I like this Babs and did play pickup sticks as a kid too. :)

[PhotoCrazy]

Wonderful image!!

[Gena Pegg]

WOW...great perspective....looks like Lincoln Logs

[Shari]

Great POV. That's a lot of wood.

[Dianne]

A great shot.

[Kate Goring]

Wow, what a great shot! I love all those piles of lumber. Fabulous title.