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Gareth
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Self-reinvention is a way to stay young, as long as you can remember what you were.

I recall being an author, journalist, photographer, truffle grower, climate change writer, magazine editor and publisher, but who can be sure?

Born at 313ppm
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Yes, we have wind.

#thedeans #waipara #norwester #capturedwithIndigo
A big sky featuring squiggly lenticular clouds looms over the Deans - the range of hills that defines one side of the Waipara Valley
November 29, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Richard Thompson: 2019, Royal Albert Hall, 70th Birthday celebration featuring huge array of folk stars, plus David Gilmour, Bob Mould, Spinal Tap...

Traffic: 1971 BBC In Concert recording - John Barleycorn album set.

Most recent concert: Don McGlashan with the CSO a few months ago
Don McGlashan in fine voice in front of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Sundown dazzling day

#starless #capturedwithIndigo
The last rays of the setting sun catch the Teviot Hills and light up the clouds that are the vestiges of a hot Nor’Wester day
November 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Planet waves

#capturedwithIndigo
Lenticular clouds in a repeating wave pattern over Mt Brown in Waipara
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Flower wrecker, possibly seeking pipe dreams

#capturedwithIndigo
A bumblebee, having wrecked a light purple poppy flower, attempts to flee the scene
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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It’s been a good year for the, etc etc usw

#capturedwithIndigo
A complex unfurling of pink tinted petals accompanies this rose’s effort to greet the summer. Reserves in the form of buds wait their turn to impress
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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A rose by any other name would probably be called Fred.

#capturedwithIndigo
A simple pink rose unfolds its petals to reveal a yellow heart
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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The heat brings out the big guys...

Procordulia grayii - yellow-spotted dragonfly - cruising our garden pond.
They're buggers to photograph, but I can't resist the challenge.
November 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Friday’s flower thinks it’s an explosion
A pink peony is thrusting its petals out like a star in the final throes of turning into a supernova. No champagne required
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Thursday’s flower is channeling its inner fried egg

#capturedwithIndigo
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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This morning’s flower blushes at its own precociousness

#capturedwithIndigo
A white, yellow and pink aquilegia considers itself the star of the morning garden
November 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Tuesday is all about passion

#capturedwithIndigo
A deep purple passionflower thinks that In Rock was their best album.
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
The cover of Led Zeppelin's third album, which opens with the wonderful Viking Kittens song.
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Blue Monday

#capturedwithIndigo
November 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Sometimes, only an aquilegia will do...
A yellow and pink aquilegia looks almost alien in the evening sunlight, tentacles trailing beguilingly
November 16, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Sunday’s flower is pretty in pink

#earworm #capturedwithIndigo
A shocking pink peony glistens in the slanting rays of the morning sun
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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...and here's the same bird on a different branch:
Another shot of the same melanistic Pīwakawaka posing on a different branch.
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Capturing them in flight is almost impossible, but they do sometimes pose obligingly. We have a few melanistic individuals living around us. Here's one:
A little black (melanistic form) Pīwakawaka or fantail poses obligingly in a patch of sunlight
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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...to this:

The lens (Canon RF14-35 f4L) escaped damage, beyond a bit of dust from her beak. Maybe she knew I'd had scrambled ostrich egg for breakfast. Just desserts, to mix my meals?
A close up of the underside of an ostrich beak as she grabs at the expensive lens that was infringing on her personal space
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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The perils of bird photography. From this...
A female ostrich pokes her head through a fence to take a better look at the camera.
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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If you see this post a bird...

From the high Alps.
An ostrich looks suspiciously at the photographer, but there is a deer fence in the way...
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Saturday’s flower is halfway to becoming a tiger burning bright

#capturedwithIndigo
A group of yellow alstroemerias - more pink than yellow - glow gently in the shrubbery
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Quote post with your own dramatic black & white selfie.

(1979)
A young photographer (he was then 25) takes a self portrait in a mirror using his Nikon FM. Around him are the accoutrements of a young man's life: a bottle of Tippex in front of a corner of his extremely noisy portable electric typewriter, a wine glass, a pair of skis, a bottle of Galliano amongst other alcohols.
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Friday’s flower would eat you for breakfast if wasn’t so small.

#capturedwithIndigo
The rather gaudy pink with yellow lips flowers of an Echeveria glisten in the morning sun. They have been reading too much John Wyndham.
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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This morning’s flower is wet.

#capturedwithIndigo
A white flower, probably a variety of crown pink, is bedecked with the jewelled evidence of this morning’s most welcome rain
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM