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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷

@paullecomtephoto.nz

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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 · 10h

Yeah thx. Deleted.

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

Yeah cheers. Ffs.

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

Indeed

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

Ffs

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

You’re onto it.

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

Congrats

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

ODT

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

What a SHIT white man council in Ōtepoti #Dunedin

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

Yeah but STV is just reported as outcome, there’s never been provisional before.

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Joel MacManus @joelmacmanus.bsky.social · 11h

The new Wellington City Council will include 5 Labour councillors and 4 Green councillors, plus Andrew Little, giving the two party "coalition" an increased governing majority - 10 out of 16 votes, compared to 8 under the previous council.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11h

Just FYI if your planning on moving remainder of mum-in-law into a retirement village after 4 massive days on the road working, hungover & in 30°C, don’t.

I’m fucked.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11h

Our car showed 31°C at one stage (driving)

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11h

Absolutely bonkers reporting by ODT, under STV it’s a final result not provisional.

Absolutely bizarro land stuff.

I mean yay if true

www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...

Barker claims Dunedin mayoralty by close margin

Sophie Barker has been provisionally elected Dunedin mayor by a narrow margin. As at 4.05pm Ms Sophie Barker (12,782 votes) is the mayor-elect with...

www.odt.co.nz

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 12h

28°C

Spring in the South Island.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 13h

Wow, 27°C & howling NorWester ChCh, only could of hours ago 11°C & torrential rain on the coast.

Love the orographic geography system.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14h

(The criticism from Finlayson was way more scathing & rude than reported here. The language!)

Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 20h

Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.

Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned

newsroom.co.nz

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 20h

Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.

Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned

newsroom.co.nz

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fffred @fffred.bsky.social · 1d

Sad...2009 :
bsky.app/profile/fffr...

fffred @fffred.bsky.social · Jan 18

Franz Josef Glacier, New-Zealand

#photography
#photographie

Vue depuis le canyon du glacier Franz Josef.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14h

Ha ha. Yeah glacier ice can be tricky.

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

#GreatNZRoadie day III

Franz Joseph Glacier. Well kinda, it was all the way to the corner last time here.

Climate change sucks.

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

The Flat White @ Full Of Beans in Franz Joseph is insane (taste wise, I’m meh on latte art)

Mini #GreatNZRoadie West Coast edition Day III

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

National ‘Labour spends too much on consultants’

Also National ‘we will spend more’

Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 2d

Comment: Minister Judith Collins has relaxed constraints on consultants spend, after the public sector massively over-delivered on promised spending cuts ... and the Govt work-rate slowed accordingly.

Public spend on consultants slashed – but not to those embedded deep in govt

newsroom.co.nz

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

Happy Birthday

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

Oh boy that was some rain overnight