Lucked into some beautiful light late Friday afternoon as we were making our way to the Tukino skifield.

This is a job I really enjoyed, photographing current students at Victoria University. Here’s 5 of the 7 portraits which are being used in bus shelters and billboards around Wellington currently.

I photographed Robert yesterday for a document nominating him as he seeks a place on the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. If he’s successful he would be the first person with a learning disability to sit on this committee. Here’s a link to a short video (not shot by me) with his inspiring story.

The warped geometry of an aged playground. The structures gone but the slide still retains a hopeful shine.

Bits scattered across the Wairarapa coast. The fireplace, like a lone proud sentinel, a reminder of prior endeavour and graft.

After a long walk dragging your offspring around the mountain there’s nothing better than heading to the hot pools at Tokannu. And then spotting the church and madonna across the road on your way out.

Here are a couple of photographs from a shoot last week with talented poet Morgan Bach for Victoria University Press.

Last year I helped artist Kedron Parker with her Kumototo Stream project and she now has a new work in conjunction with artist Bruce McNaught which also explores our connection with fresh water.

This got me thinking about a project I did way back in 1998. I photographically explored the Kaiwharawhara Stream using artificial lighting in daylight to give the imagery an altered and slightly hyper real look. Heres some of what I wrote at the time:

….I learnt that the head waters of the stream were mined for gold by early settlers of Wellington 140 years ago. Then it was dammed to provide freshwater for the growing city. In another section further downstream, the stream is piped underneath an old rubbish dump for the city. Currently, the upper valley area is being restored to a pre- European state. It is being  transformed over time to create a wildlife sanctuary.

What became clear to me whilst  I was working on this project, was that the effects of man, for better or worse, are evidenced along the entire length of the stream. Whether we dictate its direction for practical and commercial reasons, or cultivate it’s beauty for our pleasure, the stream has had to contend with constant human interference…..

Artist Simon Denny, photographed at the Adam Art Gallery in Wellington for Metro Magazine. Simon was about to open his show ‘The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom’ the following day . Next year he will be representing NZ at the 2015 Venice Biennale.

A portrait for Stand Childrens Services annual report taken on a beautiful morning at Otaki Beach, commissioned by Insight Design.

Stand is a charity that provides specialist home and school social services including therapeutic care and education to at risk kids.