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Nuclear

South West France, 1998: Drive by shooting at the extreme- on the TGV high-speed train…  somewhere between Tours and Bordeaux these Nuclear power-plant cooling towers came into view- albeit very briefly… A TGV train made a world record in 2007 by reaching the speed of…  574.8 kmph/357.2 mph… France is the world leader in domestic […]

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Window smoker

Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2002: Grabbed this shot of a window smoker while wandering along Dubrovnik’s old city walls…   Canon EOS 100/Canon EF 75-300mm

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Three

Rijeka, Croatia, 2002: I was only in Rijeka for a couple of days, but found it a great place for street shooting. Canon EOS 100/Canon EF 75-300mm

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Hawera

Hawera, Taranaki, NZ, 2006: An image shot from the top of Hawera’s iconic water-tower, looking north-west to Mount Taranaki. Canon EOS 1N/Sigma 17-35

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Pyramid

Giza, Cairo, Egypt, 2005: We were adamant about making our own way out to Giza, rather than taking the easy tourist shuttle. It was a mission… Took the metro out to Giza station and promptly got lost… Wandered around aimlessly for a while before coming across a taxi. The driver was a bit of an […]

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Kiev

Petone, Wellington, NZ, 2011: First roll from the cheaply/recently aquired Kiev 4m. The Kiev has a very interesting and long history… As part of post WWII war reparations, the Soviet Union dismantled East German factories and transplanted them behind the Iron Curtain. The Zeiss factory that manufactured Leica’s nemesis- the Contax– was one of them… […]

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CSV

Cabo de São Vicente, Portugal, 1998: The south-western most point of Europe- formerly known as the “end of the Earth”… Biked out there from Sagres, to the place many famous “discoverers” allegedly looked out from…Vasco de Gama, Magellan, and even Columbus himself.. Mamiya ZE/50

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