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  • The Fog

    I love shooting in the fog. It’s a tricky environment depending on place and time of day – camera meters can go right out if you meter for scene as the vastness of the frame is a backlit white. The morning in question had me heading out to a few places on the way to…

  • The Sugarworks

    For now 142 years on Auckland’s North Shore in the suburb of Birkenhead, we have had the Chelsea Sugar Refinery. They refine and produce the bulk load of sugar we see here in NZ. Located next to the main harbour, it was an ideal positioning, allowing for large cargo ship anchorage and loading/unloading. As with…

  • A Random Dual Stroll

    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…

  • Through Someones Vintage Eyes – Iran & Afghanistan.

    I think this is my last box from this intrepid journeyman. Intrepid perhaps being a more modern lens on some of the venues we have relived through his slides. Yet another current day troubled zone – Iran and Afghanistan. Back int he 60’s/70’s however was the peak tourism hippy period of the century. Known by…

  • Third Time Lucky [400] – The Petri Flex V

    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…