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The trickiest of calls.

#tui #photography #digital mixed media #fly #wings outstretched #free

Alone /surrounded.

#Iphone photography #black and white #auckland city

On seas of big-grey clouds.

#photography #Kaikoura #New Zealand #alien #mountains #skies #grey clouds

Autumn winds.

#road trip #South Island #The Catlins #video

O’er yellow vales and hills.

#Lindis Pass

"Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.”

~ W. Shakespeare

#New Zealand native bush #photography #Pororari River Track #Punakaiki #South Island

The waters.

#Whites Bay #Marlborough #photography

. . . and you can see it in her eyes.

#2 strip #Marlborough #Sarah #shadow and light #video #Wither Hills

Honey & Wildfire

“Just because you are soft doesn’t mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour gold."

~ Victoria Erickson

The three of us took an afternoon drive down a seemingly endless, vine-lined road towards the east coast. The shifting light lead us down a rutted bank to sun dried grasses rustling in a stiff, warm breeze.

I had a lot of ideas about what I wanted to photograph but no real landing place. There were expressions I hadn’t captured before, gestures I hadn’t recorded, and stories I had never told. It was time.

Michelle and Marie made it easy. Each possessed a charm, presence and strength contagious and palpably golden. They were honey and wildfire incarnate and became the faces, legs and windblown hair narrating the language of ’Swim’.

#lifestyle #Marie #Marlborough #Michelle #photography #portrait

I will rise.

#Anita #black and white #Kaiteriteri #photography

Season of mists.

#mist #Marlborough Sounds

Sunken Wakas

My fascination of the Marlborough Sounds reached new heights in Autumn. To keep this part of the story short, I should tell you I worked and lived in the Queen Charlotte Sound and spent many afternoons hiking nearby lookouts and exploring quiet bays. But the surreality of being on top of clouds covering the sea-drowned valleys of three Sounds at sunrise was like none other. The way you see more when the view is shrouded, are grateful for steep, wooded hills, for mythical sunken wakas, for a friend to share it all with, and for being up-wind to the roar of frisky stags. When the mist is high there, you find a silence, you reach a height.

#Fran #Marlborough Sounds #photography #Queen Charlotte Track