Category : Waharoa
The waharoa is the gateway onto a Māori marae, or meeting place. It is the place where the manuhiri (visitors) are welcomed onto the land.
Here kōrerō (stories) will be told.
Please pass through the waharoa to the taumata, the place where I share my own journey with a camera, and sing the songs of the understandings of the world and of myself which photography gifts me.
All of us who travel the road of our life with a camera have a wonderful friend and guide, to share and comment on who we are.
And why we are.
Te Wairua O Te Wai Fujifilm X-T2, XF 16-55/2.8 ISO 400, 1/140s @ f11 Sometimes walking with a camera is a way of seeing beyond the walls of your own inexperience, beyond the illusion of the reality in which you have wrapped yourself. I had been busy, working through the back catalogue of […]
Te Korowai O Te Wai, Ahipara Nikon D810, Sigma Art 24-105/4 ISO 64, 1/30s@ f11 You can learn a lot by being quiet, and just looking and listening. After all, you have two eyes, two ears and only one mouth. And perhaps, in doing so, you will come to find that what is […]
Water film, Rāwene Nikon D810, Sigma 24-105/4 Art ISO 64, 1/125s @ f8 “Be still within yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.” – Minor White When you focus on your subject, and really begin to listen to it, then you will begin to hear the song it […]
Te Ara O Te Aorangi, Hokianga Nikon D810, Tamron 70-200/2.8 Di VC USD @70mm ISO 64, 1/1000s (x10) @ f8 “Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame.” […]
Mangroves, Te Karaka Nikon D810, Sigma Art 24-105/f4 ISO64, 1/100s @ f8 Water has its own personality, its own character, its own mauri, or essence. Actually it has many personalities, as many, in fact, as there are stars fixed to the underside of the night. And the water of Hokianga is a particular […]
An Invisible Conversation, near Kohukohu Nikon D810, Tamron 70-200/2.8 VC USD ISO 100, 1/1250s @f8 “Photography came out of painting and is now going back to it” ~ David Hockney Sometimes realisation can lurk back in the shadows, back beyond the light of recognition, waiting for the opportune moment to emerge and pounce. […]
Ngapuke, from Arai te Uru Nikon D810, Tamron 15-30 /2.8 VC USD ISO 64, 1/640s @f9 The weather was turning. A storm was coming. I could feel the fingers of its unspoken intention plucking with calloused and experienced fingers at the strings of the heavens, tendrils of intention reaching out and beyond the […]
Intuitions Nikon D810, Sigma 24-105/4 Art Iso 100, 1/640s@f5.6 Kotare on a wire In the mornings, when the sun is hiding behind the low hills beyond Taheke, preening itself just prior to making a Grand Entrance, I walk out onto the wet grass in front of the house, allowing its moist […]
Moon and Cloud, Hokianga Harbour Nikon D810, Tamron 70-200/2.8 ISO 100, 1/250s @ f8 There is a ring around the Moon. I see it on certain nights, usually close to full moon, when its energy is at its peak. If I look at it, I will see a glowing, pulsing corona, shimmering with blue energy, […]
Inaianei II Nikon D810, Sigma 25-104/f4 ART ISO 100, 1/320s @ f8 “The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery, is of little worth.” ― Ezra Pound This is the first article of two, offering some thoughts on what is shaping up to be […]
Tupuna II, Hokianga Nikon D810, Sigma 24-105/f4 ART ISO 100, 1/200s @ f8 Ancient History was waiting for me, and the disparate threads of my journey were beginning to weave together. It had been a long journey. It had been a hard journey, full of dark nights and crossing cold storm-driven, snow-furled winter passes. I […]
Web in Garden, Ranfurly Fujifilm X-T1, 60/2.4R ISO 200,1/55s@ f2.8 It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. John Keats Two things were becoming very clear to me, two things which told me it was autumn. Firstly, it was dark […]
Angel, Hamiltons Cemetery, Maniototo Fujifilm X-T1, XF 10-24 f4 ISO 200, 1/640s @ f10 “Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fear”)” ― George Sterling, The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy […]
Roses, Ranfurly Fujifilm X-T1, XF 60/2.4 ISO 200, 1.4s @f16 “I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island “There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do […]