This is my land – Taranaki – driving towards Waitomo….
Not so long ago, I drove in the early morning, well not that early from Taranaki to Auckland. It took around 5 hours. The morning was misty, cinematic. I stopped and took some pictures. There are times, when I stop, look and cannot believe the landscape before my eyes. The camera allows me to record what I see.
Back Beach – Taranaki Aotearoa New Zealand
Back Beach – Taranaki – my favourite place to walk. On Sunday it was raining gently, little depth of field, and few people. The colours, a limited palette, the sea rugged and loud.
http://www.taranaki.info/
Seen on a sunny day
When you can wander around a new city, with only excitement and a new camera – well the world is your oyster
Falstaff:
I will not lend thee a penny.Pistol:
Why then the world’s mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.Falstaff:
Not a penny.
Pictures I have taken lately
This house is near my house, taken at twilight.
Living with an electricity pylon in the yard isn’t my idea of perfect living.
It’s feeling late but I’m going to just stay up anyway
I have been cruising my hard-drives. It is possible. At times like this, perusing old images, the expression memory lane comes to mind. These images, concrete now in my mind - and for me there are emotional responses to the pictures. How pictures can catalyse. Least said. Need to take some new shots…..
Wittenoom
I was lucky enough to work on a documentary in a place of great beauty in Western Australia – the place Wittenoom, the filmmaker Caro MacDonald. Looking back at these images, I feel the sense of excitement I experienced the day we arrived. The landscape is extra-ordinary. It is a town of ghosts, closed due to asbestos, there were 8 residents whilst we were there in 2006. I wept when I left. 
http://wittenoom.net/
