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Signed, Sealed and Delivered
Posted on September 8, 2016 Leave a Comment
“Here! Here!,” I cried. As he pulled the car over I was frantically pulling out the big lens and trying to attach it, not wanting to miss a one. (Not that I needed any more as I have so many photos from our visit to Cape Palliser. But those were little babies and these much […]
Avalanche
Posted on August 8, 2016 Leave a Comment
Clever daughter had been giving me photography lessons. “Sit on the rocks and use your knees as a tripod,” she had been telling me. “You get great movement shots of the water.” It had seemed such a long way down to the ground after all our sitting in the car that I declined the offer for […]
Kereru and Wood Pigeons
Posted on September 10, 2015 Leave a Comment
Yes, the Maori name for New Zealand’s native Wood Pigeon is ‘Kereru’. This may seem like double the trouble to write, but we were seeing double that day. Not one, but two big fat Kereru no more than a metre above. Feeding as if there was no tomorrow, even though their rather rotund undercarriage suggested they […]
Icicles Dripping Fun
Posted on July 16, 2015 Leave a Comment
Coming up last he spotted what we had all missed. A frozen moment in time hanging from a fallen log. Icicles clinging. Water suspended. Colours reflecting transparent. And the competition started. Trying to get the angle, the light, the wonder of it captured forever. Swapping places to see if we could do better than the […]
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