Happy New Year everyone! All the best for 2012! WordPress.com has prepared a 2011 annual report for my blog…. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 16,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about […]
Read More 2011 in reviewOpunake, Taranaki, New Zealand, Dec 2011: I was taking a “tiki-tour” down the coast road- Surf Highway 45– the other day from New Plymouth to Hawera. There’s many interesting sites, many of these being abandoned buildings… I’m unsure what this particular building used to be, it looked like a funeral parlour to me. But my […]
Read More CourtHawera, Taranaki, New Zealand, Nov 2011: The former Hawera hospital has been abandoned for at least a decade. The 80+ year old hospital once accommodated 116 patients, the new modern “clinic” that sits adjacent to the ruins has 16 beds. This hospital once contained the full range of services, including an A&E, surgery, x-ray dept, […]
Read More Hospitalized – part 1Kau Point, Miramar Peninsular, Wellington, NZ, Nov 2011: Kau Point Battery is a gun emplacement in Wellington’s inner harbour. It was originally built in the late nineteenth century in preparation for the invasion of the (“white fleet”) Russian Navy. It was still in use during the 1st World War but decomissioned soon after. It’s the […]
Read More Kau PointPetone, Wellington NZ, September 2011: An abandoned pre/primary school in Petone- name and history unknown… Canon EOS 30D/18-55is
Read More PrimaryBrisbane, Australia, November 25th – January 22nd: A bit of shameless self promotion here , but if your in Brisbane over the next couple of months, go check out SmallWorks Gallery… I’m privileged to be included in the inaugural opening groupshow- “LookSee”- with some very esteemed company. Recent works from the series “Quarantine” and “Bad […]
Read More LookSeeOroua Downs, Horowhenua, NZ, Nov 2011: Canon EOS 30D/18-55is
Read More Oroua DownsLake Alice, Rangitikei, NZ, Nov 2011: Lake Alice Hospital was a notorious rural psychiatric facility that operated from 1950 up untill it’s closure in the late 1990’s… It was self-sufficient with its own farm, bakery, glass houses and vegetable gardens . It could accomodate up to 900 people in various buildings spread over it’s 56 […]
Read More Lake AliceHorowhenua, NZ Nov 2011: Canon EOS 30D/Canon EF 50 f/1.8 II
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