Bright starts

It’s like walking through a grotto lit by twinkling lights on our early morning walks through our favourite Tunnel Gully walk.  The early morning light sprinkles through the tree canopies creating the occasional natural spotlight.  In a most uncharacteristic...

Hint of summer

Even after almost five years of living in New Zealand I am still disoriented when it comes to seasons. In England the biggest sign of summer is start of June, Wimbledon and strawberries.  But here we are towards the end of November and I can’t shake off the...

Broad beans – take two

Broad beans aren’t something that you really see for sale in the supermarket. Or at least I don’t really notice them.  But they are highly recommended in food growing books as something easy to grow and prolific in their crops. But my first attempts at...

Boys will be boys

The deadline for my portrait photography assignment is looming and I’m woefully short of photographs to submit for critique.  My resident models seem reluctant to play along despite my best efforts for them to look at me and smile nicely to the camera. Instead...