It’s so much fun up at my local cross country skiing area, the Snow Farm, that I’ve really just been eating, sleeping, skiing and working for some weeks now. As some of you know I’m running a sort of mirror blog on events there of late such as the New Zealand 100% Pure New...
It’s been hard getting up at 5 am to help set up all the wiring and flags for both days this weekend to help with the Winter Games at the Snow Farm, but it’s been really worth it, and I had far more fun than I imagined was possible. I’ve got another blog site...
The weather is looking good on the Met VUW 5 day forecast and the recent snow-fall Gods have co-operated fully for the Pure New Zealand Winter Games 2011 that start on the coming weekend 13th August 2011, at the Snow Farm. The Russian Ski Team is here too and has: one Olympic Champion from...
As I post here once again, this time, well I have writer’s block I think it’s called. Maybe too many things to say! So here goes with a selection of many thoughts while meditating / driving a few days ago on a recent roadie through parts of Southland… I’ve got a selection of photos...
Writing here raises some questions, like who reads this and since I only know a fraction of the answer of this, then who do I write for? It can be self, and even the manifest ego of same, but it could also be to just pick a topic and “go for it”! To reveal...
Over the years I’ve posted often about my predilection for cross country skiing at the Snow Farm, so this week I thought I’d share more of the flavour of the place. It’s rather unique for New Zealand, as it incorporates not only skiing, but vehicle testing and a whole lot of other things. My...
This weekend we’ve experienced the positive benefits of quite a spell of wild weather. Front after front dropped up to 2 meters of snow on the local ski areas, and probably double that back in the Southern Alps. It was a pretty unusual cycle though, as a lot of it happened accompanied by gale...
The weather has really been the big topic for discussion for the last several weeks, with the chatter initially being about the snow not coming. Well historically we’ve always been lucky if it came before the old school holiday’s mid term break, but no, marketing spin-doctors steal the show. But now the spell is...
I’ve travelled with some pretty awesome people on my journeys, and one of the awesomest was Lyall Campbell of Hawea, who recently made the final journey exiting this realm. At the helm of Elwing in Port Pegasus autumn 2006. She was in her element on this trip… the chance to realise another dream, another...
I regret the silence here – due to writer’s fatigue I suspect. And currently after Telecom upgraded broadband in my neighbourhood I’ve been sans broadband. I apparently need a new modem, so that’s in the mail as they say. The snow and winter are late this year, but I don’t mind. Everything has a...
I spent most of my formative years in North Otago, but it was broad as I was often able to wander the length of the Waitaki Valley and the coastal regions. Last weekend I had occasion to visit these old haunts in the context of attending my cousin Michael’s birthday party. Stopping to make...
So what did you do for our long NZ holiday weekend? For me every holiday break usually elicits a few memories of trips in our mountains. With the short daylight hours this time of year and accompanying biting cold some memories are quite vivid: A long ways up the Dobson Valley which runs into...
Several years ago or more Ralph Warburton, a well known Wanaka local decided to publish a book of his life’s experiences. As an Apple computer techy I got involved quite often assisting with the technology needed for authoring and self publishing. Ralph sadly passed away subsequently, and so too perhaps in sympathy did his...
As a landscape photography subject I find autumn very challenging, so this year instead of the obvious photos I’ve made in the past, I’ve been learning to “see” things a little differently. Easter has given me some time to reflect on this, and also as ANZAC day falls in this time I’ve decided to...
It’s been a long time, my getting around to walking the Milford Track that traverses the northern end of Fiordland National Park. It’s an icon – maybe that is why! A close friend, a vet of many big mountain trips told me he’d found it harder than he thought it’d be. Well ditto Donald!...
I’m not sure when I learnt of it, or when the desire set in, but I have wanted to visit the Serpentine Church for many years. It was the highest church in New Zealand, and is situated in a snow tussock basin 90 mins. drive south of the Old Dunstan Rd....
![A Deed of Recognition, from the Crown for a taonga [treasure of Ngai Tahu]](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_XHA7lMgB5Q8/TJ9uBkwxolI/AAAAAAAACME/zWcCtWFL88E/mavora-1.jpg?imgmax=800)
“Hikurangi and Manawapopore are an integral part of a network of trails which were used by Ngai Tahu in order to ensure safe journeys. Activities along the way including camping overnight and gathering kai . The trails were part of summer-time pursuits such as kai-hau-kai, whanaungatanga [the renewal and...
I’ve just been exploring yet another function of a new scanner I bought awhile back – this time doing colour negatives. I’ve done a few hundred old colour slides, but the negs. take a bit more time, as for starters they’re not so easy to eye-ball and identify what they’re of. Anyway I was...
Last Sunday I had the opportunity to take a few more shots while helping search for a missing tramper ....
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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.
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