Well autumn is here, and with a vengeance! But I love the lower angle tangental light this offers for landscape photography – especially in New Zealand and at latitude 45 degrees south. It’s the long shadows… I uploaded a similar shot to FaceBook midweek – this one has a greater sense of energy in...
Some years ago as a computer techy I decided for work reasons I’d better figure out what a blog was. Oddly enough when I got my head around it I realised I’d been making self editable web sites for a few years anyway that were pretty much a blog, and hosted on an old...
Lake Rere is accessed from the less populated southern shoreline of Lake Wakatipu, from either Elfin Bay or the Greenstone Valley and was a popular tourist destination in the late 19th century. I’d heard of it years ago, but left it un-tramped. This was my loss as it’s a stunning 6 hour loop track...
Since I’d not been to the Dunedin for awhile, the nearest large city to where I live, a couple of weeks ago I trundled off in the first rain we’d had for ages, for a little break. There was some heavy rain in the Maniototo so water on the Pigroot highway… Getting near the...
It’s been awhile coming, but I’m settling at last into the year. I must admit I use this summer holiday time to do more varied things, especially thought wise as to the bigger picture – this year’s work! So distractions abounded, and one was a few evening photo trips with my good mate Roger...
Merry Christmas dear readers. Please find below an eclectic collection of recent images I quite like for various reasons…
Much has been written about the fact that photography is a two dimensional representation of three dimensional scene, or at least if we walk among our “landscape” it’s not flat! But everything in my perceived world is dynamic , so I’ve been playing about with ways to capture how I see...
A bunch of crosses in a populated cemetery can numb my mind if I consider the whole experience of being human, and the collective experiences of all who’ve gone before us to once again return to the dust of the universe. A lonely grave seems to bite deeper – the space creates context that...
It’s pretty normal to get some wild equinox driven weather this time of year in this neck of the woods in Wanaka, and this year has been no exception. What maybe an exception is I seem more “into it” this year. If I’ve got to concentrate on being in the moment, then that’s not...
The spring weather of late here in Wanaka has been very beautiful. Yes, unsettled but interesting and thankfully not the gales too often that underscore spring at 45 degrees south. It’s been very conducive for walking, and so too has my mindset: every evening I’ve been fortunate of late to wander many miles along...
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Ceilidh at the Snow Farm
Cardrona valley hoar frost, Central Otago, New Zealand
Historic Bendigo gold diggings - Central Otago, New Zealand
Poolburn, Central Otago, NZ ~ Mylee and the fisherman
Waiau bridge enroute to the Kepler Track
Roger and Kara ~ wedding, Lake Wanaka
Folk singer Phil Garland at the Cardrona Folk Festival
St Kilda beach ~ Dunedin
Bendigo historic gold diggings ~ Central Otago NZ
Meg Hut - Central Otago
Lake Wanaka
Nesting banded dotterel ~ Bird survey - Makarora
New Zealand falcon ~ Benmore Peak, Mackenzie Basin, New Zealand
A New Zealand endangered species ~ buff weka family
Autumn in my garden
Ice plant ~ Otago Harbour
Rhododendron ~ Wanaka Station Park
Dunedin Botanical Gardens
In amongst Mt Alpha bluffs with my ever enduring companion
Roys Peak from Damper Bay Lake Wanaka NZ
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A random selection of about 20 of Donald's images
Concepts on how New Zealand landscape photography and fine art can be used to stimulate our imaginations to make the world a better and more gentle place.
With photos, and some words, we explore with nomadic tendencies and inherited wizardry, all that is New Zealand, and it did not all begin with Lord of the Rings!
Cheers Donald Lousley
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