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Lifestylers an Exhibition, Opening at 3:30pm on Sunday 9 August 2015       The Chamber Gallery 141 Percival Street, Rangiora, New Zealand New Zealand has a unique type of person who is not characterised by class, race, creed or financial status. These people are from a variety of backgrounds that reflects a New Zealand ideal, which sadly is rapidly being forgotten and ignored. Not all of these people own a lifestyle block, not all of them own the land they stand on, but all have a connection with the land, from subsistence farming to painters of the land. These are people who have a connection with the Land irrespective of their background. Normally very private hidden behind hedges and fences, they have consented to being part of this project. I sent out a letter posted by hand and on social media asking for people to take part I this project, and have had a large number of replies. The following exhibition is part of this ongoing project. In this project I ha
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Mark Laita social commentary through Juxtaposition

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http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/02/21/social-commentary-through-juxtaposition-the-work-of-mark-laita/ Mark Laita social commentary through Juxtaposition
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I have moved my blog to my new gallery, the Waihora

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I have moved my blog to my new gallery, the Waihora gallery and studio. http://waihora-gallery.com/#filter=.blog This is my studio space and gallery, open once a week at the moment. Visitors can work with me to improve their landscape skills, take part in photographers walks, or just look and purchase my work. I will keep blogging, but this is my last post on blogger...I think.
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Walking the Milford and Mindfulness

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From the BBC  http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27186709 A number of recent books have lauded the connection between walking - just for its own sake - and thinking. But are people losing their love of the purposeless walk? Walking is a luxury in the West. Very few people, particularly in cities, are obliged to do much of it at all. Cars, bicycles, buses, trams, and trains all beckon. Instead, walking for any distance is usually a planned leisure activity. Or a health aid. Something to help people lose weight. Or keep their fitness. But there's something else people get from choosing to walk. A place to think. Wordsworth was a walker. His work is inextricably bound up with tramping in the Lake District. Drinking in the stark beauty. Getting lost in his thoughts "As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, w
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Salvia divinorum is a psychoactive plant which can induce dissociative effects and is a potent producer of "visions" and other hallucinatory experiences.
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2014 New Zealand Landscape Calendar out now. (7 photos) A selection of the thirteen images from the Calendar below. http://johnmaillard.com/New_Zealand_Landscapes-server/viewcategory.php?groupid=24 Only $30.00 nz $10.00pp in NZ, $30.00pp World Wide. A3 on high quality paper, with NZ dates and public holidays. Only 200 hundred printed, each one can be signed on request.  
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What if

What if I could be photographed with my father in 1979, and yet be photographed with my daughter and son at the same time. Behind us could be my grandfathers and their grandfathers, the same with my grandmothers. We could all sit together and share a meal after the photographer has photographed himself.
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