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The Bull on the Hill

This was taken on one of those hot summer days early in the morning when there was thick fog in the valleys. We were travelling to inland Otago via a road known as the Dunstan Trail which was used by the early settlers and miners heading to the Dunstan goldfields in...

Fresh

Another day, another daisy:-)  These little flowers grow like weeds here, in cracks in the path for example. I forgive them their weedy tendencies and especially love the way that each plant has flowers of several different colours. This was processed quickly and...

Deer Farm

Farmed deer are a common site here in New Zealand, in the 80's when farmers were struggling many of them diversified and started farming deer. I love seeing them in their paddocks...the little white-tail deer are my favourites. I think these are probably red deer and...

Christmas Roses

It's Christmas eve here in New Zealand and my Christmas preparations are largely complete thank goodness!! In some ways I envy you northern hemisphere people your winter Christmas celebrations. As well as preparing for Christmas we have to cope with organising summer...

Midwinter…

Another photo from a day trip to a wonderfully frosty Central Otago last winter -many of my photos that day were taken out the car window, a shooting technique I'm getting very practised at as my driver gets sick of me asking him to stop.Anyway in this photo I cropped...

m e s s e n g e r

A dull afternoon on the beach found me on my knees trying to get a low level shot. Overcast days are perfect to try moody, grainy textures.The idea behind this picture was 'a Message in a bottle', but from the bottles perspective!The Lime Plaster somehow helps give...