Growing up in a small rural area was a privilege for which I will always be grateful. I spent nearly 18 years living in a beautiful valley with a river below the house, surrounded by farms (see above), with the bush close by and my school… Read More
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Far North | Dec 2015
I‘ve written about where I grew up several times in the past few years. I’ve described the rural Far North of New Zealand in terms of my family home (Journey north), in terms of the region I identify as home (Where I’m from) and in terms… Read More
Journey north
It only took a few hours of being at Mum and Dad’s place in the Far North of New Zealand for me to understand that I have exhausted much of the photographic material in my immediate surroundings in Brisbane City. While my parents and sisters… Read More
Sunshine Coast Hinterland 2: rest/eat/shop
When we weren’t busy taking in sunsets and feeding birds, our weekend in Maleny was spent in serious pursuit of sloth. I’ve always been rather partial to sloth, even though we get far less of it now than in our unfettered early twenties. I don’t… Read More