Manners St

Cuba Mall

Las Angeles 1976

Lambton Quay

New photographs today.

Irapatra, Crete 1975

New old work from my time in Greece.

 

Newtown 1970

My 35mm dedicated neg scanner died two years ago and I have been searching for another.  Since Nikon stopped making them five years ago it's almost impossible to find them.  My last scanner cost several thousand dollars and there are cheap models around but nothing with the grain sharpness and tonal qualities of the older ones.  I have found one, brand new even though it's been sitting in a warehouse for 10 years, but perfect for me.  The quality is stunning and I'm going to start archiving my negs again.  The two photographs above were made in Newtown 1970 with a Pentax and 135mm lens, a year before I got my first Leica.    

Willis St

Willis St

A very cold week in Wellington.

New Plymouth

A photograph I made in New Plymouth last week.

Foot steps in the Snow

Like a frame out of a mystery movie on the Hutt River today.  Did he arrive or return? 

The snow was beautiful in Wellington. 

Waitara

Renegades

The artist Michael Smither talking about his work during the Renegades exhibition.

Waitara Eastend Beach

Cuba Mall

The words New World appear everywhere and strangely I think of food.  How's that for marketing.

Willis St

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I'm in Taranaki again to join a panel discussion at Puke Ariki where they are holding an exhibition called Renegades.  It is about the art groups which existed in New Plymouth 30ish years ago.  New Plymouth at the time was a bit of a hot bed of bohemian artist and I was in a group called TIP (Taranaki Independent Photographers).  I have two photographs in the show.  It is a major exhibition of about 150 works including some of NZs best known artist.  Taranaki was renegade breeding ground.

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The photograph above was taken in Willis St last week.

Cuba Mall

Manners St

 

Sometimes the light in Manners St forms a tunnel.  

Willis St

 

Cuba Mall

 

 Yesterday under the bucket fountain. 

Renegades

One of two prints which will be in the Renegades exhibition at Puke Ariki, New Plymouth.  The show starts next Wednesday.  Renegades - Taranaki Independent Art Groups 1960s -  I was in a group called TIP (Taranaki Independent Photographers) which flourished until about 1985.  The photograph above was taken in a youth camp 1983.