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A while back I ran away from a twentymumble-year corporate career to be a feckless art student. Since then I've dirtied my hands with, metaphorically and/or literally, bronze and ceramic sculpture, photography, and digital and traditional illustration. Mask making was one discovery, dovetailing with my interests in teaching and performing improvised theatre.

The tiny photo bomber

A photobomberpillar? This morning I was trying to capture an image of the mouthparts on this tiny 3-4mm monarch caterpillar, … More

butterfly, caterpillar, monarch
black and white charcoal

Fluffy wolf charcoal technique revisted

I said I’d try some more with the recently learnt slow-wolf approach to using built-up layers of black and white … More

charcoal

Looking closer . . . closer . . . just a little bit closer!

When a new camera lens arrives you just have to put it on your camera and go take photos.  The … More

fly
wolf

Torture by fluffy wolf

The thing with making art is that you get used to using favourite tools in a certain way. It’s good … More

charcoal, wolf

Aliens in Aro Park

Tonight I enjoyed a ‘Summer Star Trek‘ show in a local park – everything and everyone were very colourful and all … More

blue, star trek

New Year’s Street Hog

As seen on my way to a New Year’s barbecue, one of a pair of youngling hedgehogs rummaging around in … More

hedgehog

Let the festive feasting begin!

Said the tiny ant to all the other tiny ants . . . 

ants, bumble bee
fireworks

Fireworks!

Next year (as I say every year) I’ll go really early and claim a watching-spot that gets more of the harbour … More

fireworks, harbour, wellington
Dunnottar Castle

Castle on a clifftop #46

As scenic as any scenery you’ll ever see: the ruins of Dunnottar Castle near Aberdeen, Scotland.   If I was a different kind … More

castle, Dunnotar, scotland
Stonehenge Crow

Stonehenge Crow

With the IR modified camera, f/6.3, 1/200, 55mm

crow, Stonehenge

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