Picture Pages

At the behest of someone far smarter and more gorgeous than me, I thought it opportune to highlight some of my extensive collection of picture posts as sometimes it's rather too easy for them to be lost amongst the more wordy offerings.

Cornwall Park in Hastings, fog, mist, playground photograph
MY WORLD
is a collection of more than 600 places and things I've seen and photographed around Hawke's Bay. Sometimes scenic, sometimes quirky but rarely is a person involved. I've learned to look, and see, and appreciate.

Coloured lights at night, on trees and bushes in Clive Square, Napier. photograph
SPICE OF LIFE
 - as in "Variety is the Spice of Life" - is a weekly assortment of my work as a photographer with Hawke's Bay Today. Sport, adverts, politicians, scenics, awards, portraits, arty-farty, events, celebrities, accidents and fires and police arresting people, you name it! Some of them the paper never published - the bane of every press photographer's life - and some I just kinda feel connected to because of the things I saw/experienced/heard while at the assignment. ☺ 

L-R: Question time for mayoral candidates Cr Adrienne Pierce, Guy Wellwood and Mayor Lawrence Yule at a Hastings District Council Mayoral Debate hosted by Hawke's Bay Today at Karamu High School, Hastings. photograph
MOVING PICTURES
is a newer series of posts since I've started shooting videos for Hawke's Bay Today. I feature my favourite video for the week (please be patient, they can take a little time to load), plus links to the other videos I've created that week.

Plus there are a few posts that stand out on their own:

Shanghai business district at night photograph
SHANGHAI, A CITY OF SURPRISES
is my record (words and pictures) from October 2014 when I visited Shanghai in China as a guest of Air New Zealand for an intense three days of tours, food and culture shock. It was an awesome experience!

Jim Hartley of Hastings, up before dawn to catch whitebait on the Tukituki River, Haumoana photograph
LITTLE FISH, BIG PASSION
is a day in the life of Jim, a whitebaiter on the Tukituki River at Haumoana (words and pictures). I got inspired!

War medals - Anzac Day parade in Havelock North photograph
ANZAC DAY 2014
which is mostly pictures, and
A DAY TO REMEMBER
which is a more reflective take on New Zealand's day of memories (word pictures).

Parade in Hastings for the Hawke's Bay Magpies rugby team, followed by a mayoral reception, civic reception at Civic Sqaure. Winners of the Ranfurly Shield, after beating Otago 20-19 in Dunedin on Sunday photograph
SPICE OF LIFE - RANFURLY SHIELD SPECIAL
- no explanation needed ☺ 

Johnny Green, Auckland, Art Deco greengrocer for the day photograph
ART DECO
in Napier and Hastings is just a visual feast! My annual challenge is to bring back something I haven't seen before ☺ and that's no easy task after more years than I can remember!

In front is a 1938 Bedford ASXC - Mitre 10 Mega Ride in a Truck Day, raising funds for Trucking for Hawke's Bay Child Cancer Charitable Trust, at the ENZA/Turners and Growers grounds at Whakatu. photograph
SPICE OF LIFE - TRUCKING SPECIAL
One of the biggest FUN weekends for Hawke's Bay kids, the Mitre 10 Mega Ride in a Truck Day raises funds for the Trucking for Hawke's Bay Child Cancer Charitable Trust. Convoys left Hastings and Napier, finishing up at the ENZA/Turners and Growers grounds at Whakatu.

L-R: Sheena Martin, Wairoa, Josh Renner, Wairoa, Jeremy Bright, Wairoa, Jacob Moyle, Havelock North - watching the class one long head course - first dog trial of the season - Waimarama-Maraetotara Sheep Dog Trial Centre, at Kahuranaki Station. photograph
SPICE OF LIFE - DOG TRIAL SPECIAL
Gotta love rural Hawke's Bay. Here's a selection of good keen men (and their mates) at the first dog trial of the season, run by the Waimarama-Maraetotara Sheep Dog Trial Centre, at Kahuranaki Station

SPICE OF LIFE - ROYAL SHOW SPECIAL
Show week is a crazy busy week, finishing up with People's Day (on Hawke's Bay Anniversary) at the Hawke's Bay Royal A&P Show at the Hawke's Bay Showgrounds in Hastings. From a day's work, these were my favourites ☺ 
And here's a link to the full album on Hawke's Bay Today

Hastings Blossom parade. The rain held off and the parade was AWESOME !!! photograph
HASTINGS BLOSSOM PARADE (on Facebook)
The rain held off and the parade was AWESOME !!!

TANEKAHA COMES HOME (on Hawke's Bay Today)
I was really lucky to photograph the release of Tanekaha, the 200th kiwi at Maungataniwha in Northern Hawke's Bay. The organisers, Tasti NZ​, had also put together a surprise reunion between a mother and her son. And here's a link to Amy Shanks​' story in Hawke's Bay Today.

Enjoy ☺ 

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