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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷

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Caffeinated Hypermediated Photographer. Sad devotion to Nikon, typefaces, Everton, Canucks, UK indie & NZ roots music. Results may vary depending on caffeine & alcohol intake. Toitū Te Tiriti. 323ppm https://paullecomtephoto.nz

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · Jun 24

If you're in the area (Arrowtown / Queenstown) you should come & see our @winterstellar.bsky.social exhibition, it's out best ever & we are very proud of it. I have 3 pieces in the exhibition & every image is beautifully printed.

(you can buy them too rangitako.com/shop/p/speed...)

Poster advertising our 2025 astrophotography exhibition

The Milky Way above a harbour with a city in the background

the Milky Way above Otago Peninsula with light trails from passing cars below

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 43m

Kā Roimata-o-Hinehukatere Franz Josef Glacier Valley walk, Kā Tiritiri-o-te-moana the Southern Alps.

Aotearoa NZ

#Nikon #GreatNZRoadie

I think this is Annie Peak in the Franz Josef valley - densely covered rainforest mountainside with dark brooding clouds above. Lush bush & a couple of waterfalls

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 1h

Isn't it fantastic - the stories & meaning behind each place name.

The whole site (not just the atlas) is a goldmine

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 1h

The days long torrential rains mean that everywhere you looked in Kā Roimata-o-Hinehukatere Franz Joseph Glacier valley Kā Tiritiri-o-te-moana the Southern Alps was another waterfall.

Summer they're almost all gone.

#Nikon #GreatNZRoadie

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 1h

This is great news

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The Press @thepress.co.nz · 12h

Hundreds of scientists and global leaders are converging on Christchurch for the world's largest and most influential climate adaptation gathering.

Global leaders, scientists gather for NZ's largest ever climate event

Hundreds of scientists and global leaders are converging on Christchurch for the world's largest and most influential climate adaptation gathering.

dlvr.it

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 1h

oh my days

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 1h

& if you haven't got it bookmarked you're missing out

Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 1h

Design Reviewed has grown into an independent ‘living’ archive and website documenting the history of graphic design. designreviewed.com/archive/ #graphicdesign

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 1h

Oh my days!

When you dial in the right exposure - shutter speed, freezing water droplets from about 1km away is insanely satisfying.

Waterfall of Alex Knob, Kā Roimata-o-Hinehukatere Franz Joseph Glacier valley Kā Tiritiri-o-te-moana the Southern Alps

#Nikon #GreatNZRoadie

Zoomed into 300m, probably on DX mode (thus effective range of 450mm due to crop factor) a highly detailed section of the waterfall in which you can see individual drops of water frozen in time.

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 2h

Yip I remember a Ice cave too from 1981

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 2h

I've mentioned this before, but on the Nikon Z7ii even my old workhorse f-mount 28-300mm lens is absolutely brilliant.

Close up of waterfall off Alex Knob

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 2h

*or not 😢

I first visited in 1981 when we moved there.

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 2h

My pleasure, I'm learning so much

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 2h

I bloody knew I had a PDF of the Geology of the South Island

The Waiho Loop, near SH6, is the terminal moraine of a major advance of the Franz Josef Glacier about 12,000 yrs ago. Photographer Lloyd Homer, GNS Science.

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 2h

Waterfall in the Kā Roimata-o-Hinehukatere Franz Joseph Glacier valley Kā Tiritiri-o-te-moana the Southern Alps.

This waterfall comes from a creek flowing from Alex Knob, 1303m (yes I've been dying to say this, lol) on the Fritz Range

A waterfall, some sheer rock & native forest

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 3h

Kā Roimata-o-Hinehukatere Franz Josef Glacier, Kā Tiritiri-o-te-moana the Southern Alps, Te Tai Poutini West Coast. Aotearoa NZ

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 3h

scientifically it will be 35% less volume & retreated a long way up the valley by 2100 on current trends.

there have been 3 significant advances in the past 60 years, but out paced by retreats.

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 3h

Aye, I first saw it even closer than that in the 1980s

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 3h

LOL you go Stan, that's freaking awesome & I wish you all the best with it.

I'm ringing OneNZ for my mother-in-law (authorised to speak on her behalf) for the exact reasons of my frustration. She can't understand the call centre people with her age / hearing.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 3h

Wellington votes with STV = 48% turnout
Dunedin votes with STV = 44.5% turnout

Ben McNulty @ponekeben.bsky.social · 3h

Turns out Wellingtonians came out in force on Saturday, single biggest day of voting. 48% participation which is the best result since at least 2016.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 3h

Yay we're 'famous'

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 3h

A wee while before that, but they were visible on the flats from the sea in his days.

Must have been an amazing sight to behold

Map showing the paths of both Fox & Franz Josef glaciers that 18,000 years ago in the ice ages extended out to sea

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 3h

a baby with a sad look on his face

ALT: a baby with a sad look on his face

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 3h

My money is on OneNZ has a call centre operating out of a Scam centre Scammer Payback Pierogi monitors

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 4h

The fucking call to 'NZ's leading telco' was between two tin cans & a long string, that kept cutting out.

You utter utter wankers.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 4h

FOR FUCKS SAKE ONE NZ your 'local call centre' person can not understand my speaking as clearly and slowly as I possibly can.

And JFC, the line is cutting out & the incompetent fuckwit is only reading out from his script.

You utter COCKWOMBLES

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