New Zealand | Ramblings

Best photos of 2019

January 3, 2020April 26, 2020 pdg 0 Comments Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand, Northland, Paihia, photography, Russell, Sir Hekenukumai Puhipi, Tuia 250, Waitangi

For once picking my favourite photo of the year was easy.

Photos Weird Travel

Phone booths of the world

June 25, 2018August 31, 2021 pdg 12 Comments Armenia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia, Hungary, Iran, Laos, Macedonia, New Zealand, phone booth, Portugal, Romania, Spain, telephone, Ukraine, USA, Vanuatu

The phone booth has, tragically, become an endangered species — hence my mission to preserve these once ubiquitous features of our urban landscape through photography.

Europe New Zealand

Hundertwasser in Holland: ‘Your loss is our gain’

May 20, 2018March 12, 2022 pdg 4 Comments Hundertwasser, Kindervallei, Netherlands, New Zealand, Valkenburg, Wellington, Whangarei

How a ‘New Zealand monument’ designed by eccentric Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser ended up being built in Holland instead.

New Zealand

Stranded

May 12, 2018September 19, 2020 pdg 2 Comments Karikari, New Zealand, Northland, Spirits Bay, stranding, whales

Two mass strandings in a month push whale rescuers to the limit in New Zealand’s Far North.

Caucasus New Zealand

In a corner of a foreign field

May 10, 2018September 19, 2020 pdg 0 Comments Batumi, Batumi Botanical Gardens, Georgia, New Zealand

The author stumbles on something strangely familiar in an obscure corner of the former Soviet Union.