White Island, New Zealand

I visited Whakaari/White Island in the Bay of Plenty, prior to attending Photobook/NZ in Wellington in 2018.

Suzanne and I were on a weeks holiday in the North Island, which included exploring the GeoThermal Highway. White Island was where we started the exploration. After the holiday Suzanne then went on to walk the Grand Traverse in the South Island, whilst I stayed in an Air BnB in the Te Aro Valley in Wellington. I spend the week walking and photographing around the city for the Reconnections project.

I could only go to White Island in a party organised by the local tourist operators at Whakatane. I was lucky to make it to island, due to a cyclone that had swept across this part of the island a couple of weeks earlier. It flooded the Whakatane River, littered the mouth of the river with the trunks and branches of trees upstream, and made the swells around the island too dangerous for the boats to land.

wood abstract

This picture was made whilst I was wandering around an old Council rubbish dump in the late afternoon:

I was on a poodlewalk in Waitpinga, which is in the southern Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. The dump is empty now.--its an edgeland.

Tree rings, foam and Leica

A picture of tree rings in an old rubbish dump from late 2018 that I have just got around to scanning.

This abstract was made in the late afternoon in Waitpinga whilst I was on a poodlewalk with Maleko.

Kororoit Creek, Sunshine

This picture was made whilst I was on a brief visit to Sunshine, Melbourne:

I was there for an industrial photo session with Stuart Murdoch in North Melbourne. We had a break from photographing drosscapes with Stuart taking me for a walk along the Kororoit Creek trail in Sunshine.

old can, Terrapinna Gorge

I saw this old, rusty can lying amongst rocks in the walls of the Terrapinna Gorge in the Northern Flinders Ranges:

I was on a camel trek in the Northern Flinders Ranges from Blinman to Mt Hopeless. I spent the best part of a day wandering through the gorge and around the Terrapinna Tors circuit above the gorge. My understanding is that the Hamilton Creek flows into the gorge.