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of New Zealand
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Photographs of New Zealand taken during the early 1960’s on 35mm slide film.Go on a trip around the South Island. Look at other parts of the country back then.
A few sunset photos from my recent trip to Omapere and Opononi on the Hokianga Harbour.
Check out my gallery of photographs at the Kauri Museum, Matakohe, Northland, New Zealand.
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Shifting Sands of Time
This post has been prompted by a video I watched this morning from Kim Grant about how things change in the landscape.I have quite a few photos taken over the years that show changes in places but a few that I felt showed some dramatic changes are of Karekare Beach at Auckland’s west coast.
Kendall Bay, Auckland. Christmas walk.
While visiting my family in Auckland for Christmas we went for a walk through a bush track down to Kendall Bay on Auckland’s North Shore. Quite a steep track but good for working off the extra Christmas food. Again, could be that I have eaten too much anyway. Kendall Bay,
Walls of Kaikohe
Over recent years many of the walls in Kaikohe have been decorated with paintings.
The featured image of the painting on the wall of the old Kaikohe Hotel was the first major artwork done in Kaikohe back in 2013 but has since been lost as the hotel was demolished a year later.
Old Coppermine Photo Gallery Removed
I have removed the old Coppermine Photo Gallery as it is not very friendly with mobile devices.
I have been thinking about this for some time but have discovered that it won’t work at all with a site update that I need to make. The time has come.
Chasing a Sunset – Omapere
I had a trip planned for Wednesday 16th May to visit Omapere when the sun would be setting more or less in line with the wharf. I worked this out using the Photographers Ephemeris. As it happened I decided to do this trip on Tuesday instead, which turned out perfectly as the sunset on Tuesday was great. If I had left it until Wednesday I would have missed out as the weather was overcast with no sunset at all.
Chasing a Sunset – Rawene
Now that it is nearly the end of autumn here I felt it was time to make an effort to capture a good sunset, so with that end in mind I took a drive out to Rawene where there is a good view across the Hokianga Harbour instead of into a hill that is my westerly view from home. Going somewhere to photograph a sunset is always a bit of a chance as you never know what you are going to get. In this case, it worked out well.