The camellia's are flowering so it must be autumn.....

Camellia. Six inches high when planted in 1991
White Lasiandra


(yes that is a mouse)




(photos 20D)

Canterbury April 08

Moonrise over the estuary, Christchurch

First snow (Porters Pass area)

Old roadmans hut, Porters Pass area
(Photo's S5IS)

Sunrise Dairy Flat

(Photo S5IS)

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Auckland City (and beyond) from the Sky Tower

Looking north east from the Sky Tower.
It is the tallest building in the southern hemisphere

Looking east


Looking north -west

Looking west

Looking south

Looking down

The glass floor section , not for everyone .

(Photos and video S5IS)
Below , video taken through the glass floor
of the lift in the sky tower (not for you
dial-up users)

Easter sunrise 2008

There is something deeply comforting

about the warm inviting glow of a house when

looking in from the outside.
This is the 180 degree view to the top photo.

(Photos 20D)

Having completed another trip to Taranaki ...

The reverse view to a previous
photo on this blog taken from the air .
(straight out of the camera !)

Back beach New Plymouth

(Photos 20D using Jims 24 - 70 2.8L)

Its that Birkenhead again ......

He goes fishing , I go to work

who is happier ? Right now with yet another merger pending

but not two years since the last one I think the

answer is obvoius !!

(photo's S5IS)

Ramarama

(photo Karyn (having just moved to the countryside)

Powershot SX100IS)

How to finsh one of "those" weeks .......

(photos S5IS)

Two months after the longest day......

Two months after the longest day and I'm just about back to

getting my ferry to work in the dark.

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Mum and Dads photos

Just over a year ago my sister and I gave the folks a Canon A520 for Christmas. They have been taking it on all their trips around NZ in retirement and these are some of the images.

Wellington, hard to beat on a good day

White circle, home of the Che Paris, the only place you could get coffee and pancakes (shock horror) and folk music after 5pm in the early 70's . (It seemed so "hip" then, but it was an overcrowded fire trap really) . I used to go there after the movies with Malcolm (the shy and retiring used car salesman) and Jim (now CEO and owner of a global computer hardware and solutions empire).
Wellington now has more cafe's per square inch than anywhere in this country.

This end of town was a dump when I lived in Wellington.
I remember in my student days doing a cash job in this area with a few of my Tech mates. We shoveled the fire bombed remains of a restaurant out a second story window into a rubbish skip. To this day I still use the industrial quality grill trowel I found in the rubble on my barbeque, I have found none better.

How cool is this ?
Wellington has come along way since I left it.
Auckland could learn a thing or to about waterfront enhancement from Wellington.
Outside Te Papa the museum of NZ .


(photo's S5IS)

Canterbury drought

Very very dry in Canterbury , except for the irrigated bits !
(Photo S5IS )