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A Bridge built in 1963

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1963

Crossing

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Crossing Ashly Gorge Crossing in snow

Last week the snow came

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Snow and Lines

As my house stays damaged

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As my house stays damaged, I photograph Ditches and Hedges. Ditch Hedge

Fence Line

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Fence Line, Tai Tapu

In Canterbury

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 In Canterbury, the land is being submerged in water, why? The Bag

What Is Spec Work And Why Is It Bad for Photographers?

What Is Spec Work And Why Is It Bad for Photographers? http://petapixel.com/2013/06/26/what-is-spec-work-and-why-is-it-bad/

Reframing the land

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Currently I am working on Rural landscape My overall aim is to produce a body of photographic work, which represents an alternative to the widely published views of New Zealand as a ‘scenic wonderland.’ These by and large hark back to the traditions of the sublime in Western art and are more often than not designed to conjure up notions of a New Zealand as an unspoiled wilderness. I want to use my photographic practice, as well as my personal experiences of specific New Zealand places, to produce an alternative canon of New Zealand landscape photography which i consider beautiful.  This will include an acknowledgement of the link between a place and the community, which lives there. Flood due poor drainage on a development in the port hills I am interested in fractal design in the landscape. Working from the idea that there is no longer a nature that is unchanged from its natural form by humanity, the form has been manipulated by humanity to conform to a pattern. W