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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…

  • 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…

  • Through Someone’s Vintage Eyes – Israel and Iran

    Today’s “through someone’s vintage eyes” takes us to Iran and Israel. Shot by the same unknown photographer as my Hong Kong series, we drop into some of the oldest cityscape on this planet, and view some sights before some of the areas have seen more modernisation.  Im estimating, like Hong Kong, these are 1960’s era…

  • A GF2 Stroll: Manu Practice

    Recently in late night impulse I acquired a Japanese only Panasonic GF2. My Lumix GF1 remains my favourite walkabout and holiday camera due to its ‘just right’ size and pleasing images coupled with its excellent 20mm lens – but I thought I’d get a GF2 to back it up. Internally, sensor wise, not a lot…