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NIKON D700 with TAMRON AF28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD
View over the Rippon Vineyard to Lake Wanaka March 10, 2014 Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand.
We stayed in Wanaka two nights and it was lovely and sunny and very warm... didn't want to head home again!
Rippon Vineyard is situated on the shores of Lake Wanaka, Rippon Vineyard and Winery has the oldest commercial vines in Central Otago and one of the most stunning settings.
The first experimental plantings took place in 1975 and many people thought Ralph and Lois Mills were dreaming or mad. Despite the mostly negative opinions of the viticultural experts of the time, the climate data that Rolfe collected was encouragement enough for them to plant their first commercial vineyard block in 1982.
The Mills family still own and run the vineyard which has been in the family now for five generations. Their primary interest at Rippon is to foster wines which are a true and accurate reflection of their surroundings.
Granted custodianship over this very special piece of land, the family’s principle goal is to create vins de terroir, wines that are an accurate reflection of their surroundings.
It may seem an unlikely combination for one of New Zealand’s former top skiers to be head winemaker at a well-known vineyard, but for Rippon’s Nick Mills it is a perfect blend. In 2002, he returned home to Rippon after years spent competing in freestyle skiing and perfecting his craft in Burgundy.
Taken from and for more Info: www.newzealand.com/int/article/rippon-vineyard/
Original Caption: New mailboxes in an area of land development near Manuka Park in the Kau District, on the southwestern side of the island, November 1973
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-11680
Photographer: O'Rear, Charles, 1941-
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Hilo (Hawaii)
Environmental Protection Agency
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My Canberra - on film mainly
Manuka Oval, first time watching the cricket game, back in 2015
... let's have a beer... or two... or another two... :-) it's been really long afternoon
Olympus OM4, slide film 100
Day 28 of the December Diary 2014 Project This years Theme...
'Bear Essentials - Essential Bears'...
One day I ALWAYS look forward to in my Dec Diary Calendar...
Is catching up with my dear friends Toni and Bruce...
They have featured in my Diary every year since 1992.
They are always such good sports...
And really get into the spirit (or this case beer) of the occasion!
So it's alway a real treat and a lot of fun getting together.
This year Toni thought it would be fun to have the Bear with their Beers under the tree... A Teddy Bears Beer Picnic ! %-)
Bruce's little bear on the left there...
Is drinking an NZ Mata Manuka Golden Ale from his Stein,
In the centre is Toni's Rembearant Bear...
Sipping on a NZ Boundary Road Coffee Oatmeal Stout
Ted and Rosetta are sharing an NZ Pure Lager Shandy...
And the boys bears are relaxing in the foreground...
With an NZ Tui Lager and a Heineken
In my haste this morning organising all the Bears and Beers...
I left my CAMERA at home... can you believe it!!!
Thankfully Toni saved the day and I was able to borrow hers!
In 1859 the minor Te Ātiawa chief Te Teira Manuka offered to sell land at Waitara in north Taranaki to the Crown. The government accepted the offer and Pākehā settlers looked forward to expanding their small enclave around New Plymouth. However Wiremu Kīngi, a more senior chief, denied that Teira had the right to sell the Waitara land, and war broke out there in March 1860. Taranaki experienced a series of conflicts over the next 21 years.
More than 230 people had been killed or wounded and another 120 had died of disease in the besieged town of New Plymouth. A truce in March 1861 ended the military conflict but did not resolve the underlying issues. Fresh fighting erupted in 1863.
Te Anau and Lake Te Anau.
Te Anau is just 60 kms further on with its 2,000 inhabitants. It is picturesquely sited on the edge of Lake Te Anau which is the largest lake on the South island and the second largest of NZ after Lake Taupo in the North Island. It stretches 65 kms in length and it has the only inland fjords in NZ. The Lake is 210 metres above sea level and it is up to 417 metres deep thus much of the lake is deeper than sea level. The lake has several small islands in it. To the east are grasslands, swamps and scrublands of Manuka. On the western side of Lake Te Anau is the Fjordland wilderness and the Murchison and Kepler mountain ranges. Milford Sound is 120 kms to the north of Te Anau. Fjordland National Park is the largest in NZ and is now a world heritage site – Te Wahipounamu – a region of four major alpine NZ National Parks. Mountains within the park rise to around 2,000 metres (nearly 7,000 feet) and the coast is deeply indented with fjords. The 14 fjords of Fjordland Park are very deep U shaped valleys gouged out by the advance and retreat of glaciers in past eras. There are no roads or people living in the Fjordland Park. Australian possums and feral deer have thrived in this environment and the NZ government regularly drops poisons from helicopters to try and control their numbers. Fjordland National Park was established in 1952. The high rainfall and snowfall of the region from the prevailing moisture laden Westerlies produces a damp temperate forest environment with ferns, mosses, lichens and majestic trees where the terrain is not too steep. Fjordland is known for its waterfalls, fjords, steep sided valleys and many lakes. The mountains are mainly composed of very hard granite, gneiss and diorite. The Maori had permanent camps in the Te Anau region along Lake Te Anau and Lake Manapouri where they gathered eels and fish from the lakes and fern roots from the grasslands and forests. Although Maori did not live at Milford Sound they trekked there to obtain greenstone for their carvings. The Maori name for Milford Sound is Piopiotahi. The road which goes from Te Anau follows the lake for 29 kms and then it crosses into the Eglinton Valley. The road follows the Eglinton River for 33 kms until it passes Lake Fergus and then climbs the ranges into the upper part of the Hollyford Valley. After it leaves this valley the road climbs to its highest point at the entrance to the Homer Tunnel. It is 16 kms from the exit of the Homer Tunnel to Milford.
Homer Tunnel and Milford Sound.The Homer Tunnel at 1.2 kms in length is the second longest tunnel in NZ after the Lyttelton Tunnel at Christchurch. Work began on the Homer Tunnel in 1935 but progressed slowed up and was halted during World War Two. It was finally completed as a single lane tunnel in 1954. It was named after William Homer who discovered the saddle separating the Milford Sound from the other valleys of Southland in 1889. He had suggested a road to open up Milford Sound country to the rest of NZ. The tunnel has a one in ten downwards slope from the eastern entrance. This eastern entrance is 1,200 metres above sea level which is the highest point on the Te Anau Milford road and it is where the road passes through a cîrque or amphitheatre area created by past glaciers. Milford Sound is a fjord that stretches 16 kms to the coast and it is up to 265metres deep. Amazingly the very high rainfall here creates a layer of fresh water above the sea water within the Sound. Milford Sound has up to 7 metres of rainfall a year with around 500 to 700 mm of rainfall each month of the year (i.e. 20 to 30 inches). The average maximum temperature for October is around 14 degrees. Milford Sound was named by a sealer John Grono of Milford Haven in Wales. Another early sealer Donald Sutherland was the first resident of the Sound and he pioneered a track over the mountains to Te Anau. A local waterfall is named after Sutherland. When it pours hundreds of short term waterfalls developed over the sheer rocky sides of the fjord. The sides at Milford Sound rise about 3,900 feet or 1,200 metres with several well-known peaks of this height. Mitre Peak is one of the most photographed features in NZ. It is so named because it resembles the mitre cap worn by Anglicans bishops. Mitre Peak is 5,560 feet or 1,690 m high. Other nearby peaks include the Lion (because of it shape) 4,272 feet and the Elephant (looks like an elephant’s head) 4,977 feet.
View over the Rippon Vineyard to Lake Wanaka March 10, 2014 Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand.
We stayed in Wanaka two nights and it was lovely and sunny and very warm... didn't want to head home again!
Rippon Vineyard is situated on the shores of Lake Wanaka, Rippon Vineyard and Winery has the oldest commercial vines in Central Otago and one of the most stunning settings.
The first experimental plantings took place in 1975 and many people thought Ralph and Lois Mills were dreaming or mad. Despite the mostly negative opinions of the viticultural experts of the time, the climate data that Rolfe collected was encouragement enough for them to plant their first commercial vineyard block in 1982.
The Mills family still own and run the vineyard which has been in the family now for five generations. Their primary interest at Rippon is to foster wines which are a true and accurate reflection of their surroundings.
Granted custodianship over this very special piece of land, the family’s principle goal is to create vins de terroir, wines that are an accurate reflection of their surroundings.
It may seem an unlikely combination for one of New Zealand’s former top skiers to be head winemaker at a well-known vineyard, but for Rippon’s Nick Mills it is a perfect blend. In 2002, he returned home to Rippon after years spent competing in freestyle skiing and perfecting his craft in Burgundy.
Taken from and for more Info: www.newzealand.com/int/article/rippon-vineyard/
My Canberra - on film mainly
Manuka, PhotoAccess library, back in 2015
... there was always lots of inspiration in PhotoAccess library ...
Olympus XA, Kodak T-Max 100
Work on the building site on Franklin Street / Canberra Avenue, behind St Christopher's Cathedral, was certainly moving along at a fast pace from what I could see when I used my iPhone to see over the top of the fence and to take some photographs. The lighting towers at Manuka Oval look on, and the always-magical Blue Hour lighting completed the scene.
A multistory portable office and mess had been brought on site, and there were two shovels to do the excavations and other earthworks. For some reason, I was reminded of Bill the Steam Shovel from the Play School TV show when I saw these vehicles. Now that is a blast-from-the-past (the late 1960's in my case).
Forrest (Manuka), Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
iPhone 6 - Photographs taken with the back-facing camera on an iPhone 6.
PureShot - A pair of bracketed sets of 3 images acquired in landscape mode with different exposure settings for each of the images in a set.
MobileHDR - Combined each set of 3 images into a single HDR image.
AutoStitch - Combined the HDR images one above the other into a composite image.
Photoshop Express - Straightened the image then cropped it to square format (3170 x 3170 pixels).
Snapseed - Applied the Structure filter and Overall lighting adjustments.
Pixlr - Added portions of the Horizon and Center dark vignettes.
Photogene - Applied the Chroma de-noise filter.
Photoshop Express - Applied the Auto-correct and custom lighting adjustments.
Snapseed - Applied a final adjustment to the saturation level.
BigPhoto - Resized the image to 3264 x 3264 pixels
ExifEditor - EXIF data from one of the original photographs transferred to the final image.
Ma visite au Auckland Botanic Gardens a été très agréable, avec une belle balade dans un site magnifique entouré de pelouses, d'arbres et de plantes à fleurs, à l'image de ces Fleurs de Manuka tant convoitées par les Abeilles pour le miel.
After months of munching macadamias Sirocco the kākāpō conservation superstar has moved onto manuka. Photo: Chris Birmingham.
Leptospermum scoparium, native to Australia and New Zealand but popular in gardens world wide, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family.
This evergreen Shrub that is known for producing a delicious tea is commonly called mānuka, manuka myrtle, New Zealand teatree, broom tea-tree, or just tea tree.The plant is used for hedges, roofing and to make dyes.
These particular flowers growing in the Palm House at Wave Hill are specifically known as Leptospermum scoparium 'Helene Strybing.'
An early morning silhouette view of St Paul's Anglican Church at Manuka with a waning crescent Moon above the bell tower.
It is always beautiful to see the full outline of the Moon whenever it is in a crescent form like this. The explanation for this phenomenon was known and recorded by Leonardo Da Vinci 500 years ago. Sunshine is reflected by the Earth onto the dark side of the Moon. This light is then reflected back to Earth where we observe it. The Sunshine that is reflected by the Earth is known as Earthshine.
www.stpaulsmanuka.org.au/St_Pauls_Manuka/St_Pauls_Manuka....
www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/earthshine.html
science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/12apr_...
Griffith, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
iPhone 6 - Photographs taken with the back-facing camera on an iPhone 6.
Cortex Cam - The Cortex Cam camera replacement app was used to capture an image with 4088 x 3072 pixels.
Photoshop Express - Cropped the image to square format (2620 x 2620 pixels).
Simply B&W - Transformed the image to B&W using the Red preset filter.
Noiseware - Applied the Night noise reduction filter.
Photoshop Express - Applied various overall lighting adjustments along with the Sharpening filter.
Big Photo - Resized the image to 2448 x 2448 pixels.
ExifEditor - Transferred the EXIF data from the original photograph to the final image.