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An Aurora Framed

I planned for this shot to have a nice wee shape, with dark skies across the top. The trouble with Aurora though, they don't listen! So much bigger and more intense than expected!

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#Twizel, #NewZealand
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#Aurora #Night #EastCoastKin #Stunday #Scape #BucketList #Travel #Epic
December 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Railway tracks

You know.. I'm a country boy.
My home is the mountains, not the city.
So while visiting an urban friend, they showed me this old tunnel, and claimed these were railway tracks.

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#Railway #FornPartsFridays #Aussie #Tracks #EastCoastKin #Scape #OnTheRods #roadtrip #travel
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The Wall of Light

The Flat Earthers are wrong.
At the Edge of the World, there's no sudden drop, or barrier of Ice.

There's the Wall. Pulsating, Twisting. Blinding.
Heaven help the Mortal who dares approach, for there is no return.

#Twizel, #NZ

#Aurora #FlatEarth #EastCoastKin #Scape #TheEdge
December 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Mark of Zorro

A flaming letter Z carved into the sky, calling to action those who would protect the oppressed against an unjust tyrant!
... Or maybe it's just pretty lights 🙂

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#Twizel, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."
( 11 May 24)

#aurora #Night #EastCoastKin #Travel
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Madness

"We're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it"
- Robin Williams

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#Twizel, #NewZealand.
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

(from the big storm of 11 May, 24)

#Aurora #Madness #Reflections #Landscape #Nightscape #Astro #EastCoastKin #BucketList #TravelTuesday
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
But Soft, What Light Over Yonder Breaks?

'Tis Juliet, she's got a terrible case of gone-green! **

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#Twizel, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

** I regret nothing! :P

#Aurora #Twizel #Pelinor #OnLocation #MountainMonday #EastCoastKin #EverythingBut #BlueskyMonday
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A Lenticular Formation

A lot of people asked about yesterday's photo of the lenticulars and the anticrepuscular ray so I thought I'd share this close up of them.
Lenticulars are my favourite clouds :)

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#Twizel, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul"

#Stunday #EastCoastKin
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Anticrepuscular Phasers

Here's a shot of something I've never captured before. Anticrepuscular rays from a full moon. The light slipped between two huge lenticular clouds, created a stunning and most unusual sight.

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#Landscape #FullMoon #Lenticular #Rays #Phasers #EastCoastKin #Stunday #Night
November 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
PssPssPss

This week's Forn Parts Friday is a throwback to this very special kitty I met in Yosemite. Who did not get scritches, despite so clearly needing pats!

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#Yosemite, #USA
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Kitty #Wildlife #VeryLongLens #Bobcat #Photography #EastCoastKin
November 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The Lady Sings The Blues

Well I'm a lucky fella
Lady's singin' a capella
A jazzy tune to dance the night away

With reds, and blues and greens
she sings exquisite scenes,
She lights the world up bright as it were day

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#Aurora #Dancing #Lights #Poetry #EastCoastKin #Bucketlist #Night #Scape
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Candyfloss Campgrounds

A fine evening to be sitting outside the camper by the lake, watching the clouds.
I hope they all were!

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#LakePukaki, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Sunset #Aoraki #Camping #PureNZ #EastCoastKin #Travel #Bucketlist #Landscape #Photography #Epic
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Just a few of the calendar packages we posted off to their new homes!

Always excited to share my photography with folks, and delighted so many of you were excited about our inaugural calendar.

Place an order today: www.ianriddler.com/2026-calendar
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Our inaugural Ian Riddler Photography Calendar (2026) has arrived! Look at these beautiful photographs - that you helped us choose! DM us to place an order for yours - $30 + Shipping (in most locations).
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Big Sky

I was chatting yesterday with a follower about the big skies we get here, and today this image came up in the FB memories, from 11 years ago today.
I thought you'd like to see it. :) Big skies indeed.

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#Twizel, #NewZealand.
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#Clouds #EastCoastKin #Landscape #Photography #Bucketlist
November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Last of the Light

Alone on the canal as the last of the light fades away and the world slips out of focus.

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#Twizel, #NewZealand.
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Evening #Canal #Peaceful #Sunset #Stunday #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin #PureNZ #Travel
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Pukaki and Aoraki

One of the great things I love about living in the shadow of our tallest mountain, and one of our largest lakes, is the sky.

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#Stunday #EastCoastKin #Sunset #Mountains #Aoraki #PureNZ #RealMiddleEarth #Landscape #Photography
November 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Off the Menu

One of the things that struck me about travelling Route 66 was the ghost towns. Now, I'd planned to visit some Ghost Towns, but I was thinking 1800's, not 1950s. The great new freeways of the 50's bypassed town after town, and just like that, the lifeblood of tourism dried up.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Toot toot!

Wayyyy off in distance, completely ignoring the dramatic skies above, a single little puff of cloud toot toots its way across the mountains.

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#Twizel, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Clouds #Sunset #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin #BabyCloud #Doodoodoo
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Aoraki Ascendant

Mighty Aoraki, New Zealand's tallest mountain, standing proud at the end of another day.

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#Aoraki Mt Cook, #Aotearoa #NewZealand.
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Sunset #Mountains #Landscape #LakePukaki #Photography #EastCoastKin #PureNZ #RealMiddleEarth #Travel
November 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Queenstown Blues

An evening in Queenstown, wandering the shoreline in Blue Hour.
Rather a nice way to walk off dinner. :)

Have you been here?

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#Queenstown, #NewZealand.
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#BlueHour #Landscapes #Photography #BucketList #EastCoastKin #Tourism #NZMustDo
November 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Smouldering Skies

Deep into the Southern Sky, the Skyfire burns, then smoulders, and cools.

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#Twizel, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Sunset #Skyfire #Twilight #EastCoastKin #PureNZ #RealMiddleEarth
November 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Silver River

Another soft sunset, light dimming over and alpine river, and the Southern Alps of New Zealand.

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"Look with your eyes, See with your Soul."

#Stunday #Sunset #NewZealand #RealMiddleEarth #Mountains #Landscape #EastCoastKin
November 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Zooooom!

I had this idea that I could capture an interesting image of an aurora along the highway. It didn't really come out, but I did like the look of this one truck that came along.

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Twizel, New Zealand
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"Look with your eyes, See with your Soul"

#LongExposure #Aurora #Truck #EastCoastKin
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Gossamer In Stone

Torrents frozen fast,
Ephemeral built to last,
Chaotic carven land,
Filigrees of coarse sand,
Gossamer In Stone,
And Loving, all alone.

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#Page, #Arizona. for #FornPartsFriday
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Scape #EastCoastKin #Poem #Landscape #AntelopeCanyon
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM