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  • Through Someones Vintage Eyes – Moscow Russia & Villages

    This is the second to last of the series taken by our mystery photographer. Only one box remains for our exploration through their eyes. Today’s lot is mostly Moscow! As with the rest of the series, I can’t be sure exactly when they were taken, but am working off clues. The biggest clue is a…

  • The ‘Lucky 400’ Pentax SV

    What do you get when you cross a ‘iffy’ Pentax SV and a box of Lucky 400 Film?… mostly photos, albeit semi dirty ones. I recently purchased a Pentax SV in ‘kind of’ working condition. The film counter is faulty, the self timer is faulty, the curtains were faulty, the lens front ring was half…

  • Mutukāroa / Hamlins Hill Regional Park

    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…

  • Pukekohe Visit

    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…

  • Once Was Pukekohe Raceway

    A recent weekend took my small follower and I to Pukekohe. Armed with my ‘vintage’ Canon EOS 300D we ventured to what was known as Pukekohe Raceway. At the time of visiting, I thought the place looked a little run down from memory… my observations were founded in that the actual raceway (opened in 1963)…