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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts: February 2008
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts. New Zealand landscape photography. Monday, February 25, 2008. St Bathans Range and Twin Burn Run. A tele-shot of some vehicles with Mt Cook in the background. An unexpected alpine lake nestled in a unique glacial cirque setting with surrounding bluffs. A smooth part of the track showing the fragile alpine vegetation just below 2000 mts above sea level, and weathered fence posts that are now destined for removal under the new land tenure. Posted by Donald ...
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts: April 2008
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts. New Zealand landscape photography. Friday, April 25, 2008. LEST WE FORGET [with links to The Press and Ralph Miller]. ANZAC day. what a wonderful tradition! And thanks Deirdre for prompting me to write and even setting up the image of the poppy for me. Also my good friend Brian. his dad Ralph Miller, an artist of that era did some beautiful sketches of life in the Pacific theatre of WWII. more. Posted by Donald at 10:58 PM. Links to this post. To pique yo...
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts: July 2007
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts. New Zealand landscape photography. Sunday, July 29, 2007. Changes in the ocean. With the winter not exactly progressing well re. snow falls and an indifferent forecast for the weekend I succumbed to my growing cabin fever, stocked my camper truck and headed east to Oamaru to catch up with friends and family. When I consider that climate in NZ is essentially driven by the sea, then there is change in front of our very eyes! For emailing this to me and allo...
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts: June 2007
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts. New Zealand landscape photography. Wednesday, June 27, 2007. My first ski for '07. I was feeling so cabin fevered today, that I had my first x/c ski tonight - I told myself to simply go and it'd be good for me and my blahs so was away at 4pm and back by 7pm. It was warmer up there than in town! Meanwhile in town here the frosts are amazing, however I hesitate to call them frosts as these have a dew [point] and they freeze white. There is no moisture a...
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts: August 2007
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts. New Zealand landscape photography. Monday, August 27, 2007. Blogs, school productions and cross country skiing. For local [your own desktop software] I'd recommend FeedDemon for Win. and NetNewsWire for Mac. I believe you have to pay for the former and there is a Lite free version of the latter. Posted by Donald at 12:17 PM. Links to this post. Monday, August 20, 2007. Posted by Donald at 10:59 AM. Links to this post. Sunday, August 12, 2007. The big surp...
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts: May 2008
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts. New Zealand landscape photography. Sunday, May 25, 2008. Studying drawing at night school to enhance my New Zealand landscape photography. Last Wed. night I attended my first night school session to study drawing. The idea being to immerse in art to increase my awareness of light and form for my passion: landscape photos. As the party photos all turned out so well [yes I admit wine also helped my subjects relax], I was inspired to continue the theme even ...
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts: November 2007
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts. New Zealand landscape photography. Monday, November 26, 2007. The Cardrona Vintage Fair, the second one ever, held in the Cardrona. Hotel garden looks like its now established as an eagerly. Anticipated event. The choice of date in the late spring for this. Very alpine area is perfect - the setting always memorable. The photo is of locals Pat and Keith in period costume. I passed on having a stall this year, but was asked to be the. Links to this post.
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts: September 2007
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts. New Zealand landscape photography. Sunday, September 23, 2007. The hallowed ground of Mr Explorer Thomson. Another week into spring! After all the above, the weekend saw me catching up on some serious sleep. Anyway the weather was indifferent. School holidays are now on and we're hoping to head north for a bit of a break. Posted by Donald at 9:59 PM. Links to this post. Monday, September 17, 2007. Posted by Donald at 8:32 AM. Links to this post. On the su...
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts: December 2007
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts. New Zealand landscape photography. Sunday, December 30, 2007. My friend Ian and myself left Wanaka mid afternoon on Xmas day for a bit of an expedition though some remoter parts of Central Otago. In the Nevis valley we encountered heavy rain compromising the 24 fords we had to cross, so we pushed on for longer than we'd intended before making our merry tea, to reach the summit at 1100 meters, that leads to a steep descent into Southland. Links to this post.
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts: March 2008
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Like Minds - New Zealand landscapes and thoughts. New Zealand landscape photography. Sunday, March 30, 2008. The mists of autumn. On Easter Monday I left at 5am for Oamarama to meet my cousin Deirdre and Murray who had been at the 100 yr Otematata Station centennial. The idea of the early start was to catch the sunrise somewhere nice. It turned out to be at Ben Avon Station up the Ahuriri River valley. The first rays of the sun on the land. Dougal looking for action. Caught up in action. Not much to repo...