Tag: Nature
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No real theme to today’s post. Just a collection of pending images from a stroll around Devonport and Mairangi Bay on Auckland’s North Shore. Starting with Mairangi Bay, we took the coastal beach track, followed by the cliff return, grabbing a few interesting (to me) shots along the way. Then, in the same weekend, a…
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Until fairly recently (at the time of writing this), I was the custodian of a wonderful Petri Flex V. Made in the early 1960’s the Flex V was a unique design in its time as instead of a combination of usual gears, the innards of the Petri are based around a single long camshaft with…
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Another post on the expired Ilford Micro-Neg Pan Type B. Following the last session, I settled on ASA6 feeling like the speed this film was sitting. Being a copy film, we also noted last session that its not got the widest range between bright and dark areas – in some ways a little like earlier…
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One can spend a volume of a lifetime living in a city and still not seeing all it has to offer. Mutukāroa ‘was’ one such place for me until recently. Placed right next to our main state highway, on the fringes of the CBD suburbs, I pass this place multiple times a week. Until recently…
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My last post farewelling the raceway suggested that Pukekohe was built around it. Thats a false statement – simply my personal links to the are were tied to that memory. Pukekohe itself has far richer (thats a pun) history than a track for cars to boom around. Originally called Pukekohekohe, the area was a settlement…
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