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Introducing a sneak peek into the breathtaking visuals featured in the 2026 Ian Riddler Photography Calendar!
These calendars, available for $30 each, are designed to inspire and motivate throughout the year. Please contact us to place your order and unlock a year of beauty!
The Blinding Moon

Balancing the long exposure times needed to smooth the rippled water, with the brilliant supermoon was a wee tad tricky. So here we have 10 seconds of buttery smooth pond, and a small flock of lenticulars above.

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Twizel, New Zealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The Vanishing Point

The night was calm and quiet, but high overhead, the harbingers of Storm raced across the sky.

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

#NightScapes #Landscapes #FullMoon #Canal #Photography #EastCoastKin #Stunday #PureNZ #PerfectNight
November 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Late Night Glow Up

Blue hour, tailing off. Near invisible to the eye, the Southern Horizon glows with the fading embers of a day soon gone.

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

#Stunday #Sunset #Bluehour #Canal #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin #PureNZ
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The Old Covered Bridge

Some parts of this bridge in Yosemite date back to the 1850s.
It's really cool to walk over a wooden structure that old, and wonder at the years that it's witnessed.

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

#Scape #EastCoastKin
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hunter's Moon

The full moon tonight lit the night as bright as day.
At least, it did for a 4 second exposure. :)

Such lovely clouds this evening, with a warm breeze.
After the Spring we had, I'd almost say it was pleasant!

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#Twizel, #NewZealand.
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#Supermoon #Night #EastCoastKin #Travel #Moon
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Freedom

High up on the tops, a curious friend comes for a visit, and having said his hellos, launches into the air with a raucous cry.

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

#Mountains #Sunset #BirdPhotography #Kea #NationalPark #EastCoastKin #Freedom #BucketList
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Switchbacks

High above Lake Manapouri, this track climbs the mountain, switchback after switchback. Sometimes, we'd have to stop and move a few pebbles out of the way...

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#Manapouri #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Mountains #Wilderness #Fiordland #EastCoastKin #Travel
November 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
West Arm

Hidden away from civilisation, home of kea and kiwi and sandflies.
Soooo many sandflies.

I've seen unwary tourists swarmed by sandflies and carried away bodily, lifted high into the surrounding peaks.

Home here is only for the brave. Or the very skinny!

#Stunday #EastCoastKin #PureNZ
November 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The House on The Hill

A bonus Halloween post, because it's still the 31st somewhere!
I wanted to write a ghost poem to go with this, but every time I look at it I keep hearing Genesis playing "Home by the Sea." So, from my earworm to yours.

#Sunset #Halloween #GhostHouse #Haunted #EastCoastKin
November 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Remember

I recall well, those days of yore.
Just you and I, on sandy shore,
Arms entwined, to seagull yells,
Strolling, seeking pretty shells.

Chasing waves, and in reverse,
Laughing, fleeing wetting curse.
White sand below, and blue above,
Cool breezes waft around our love.

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October 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Friday the Thirteenth

The moon is full.
It's Friday the 13th and it's a beautiful night for a walk alone in the woods.
Nearby, a branch cracks, and your heart pounds as your solitude is broken.
Footsteps.

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#FullMoon #Silhouette #FridayTheThirteenth #Halloween #EastCoastKin #BewareTheNight
October 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Ancient Ghosts

Down through the ages, they came.
Writhing.
Screaming.
Seeking.

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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."
(Run for your lives!)

#Halloween #Paradolia #Ghosts #SpookySeason #Landscape #Photography #BlackAndWhite #EastCoastKin #TheyreBiggerThanYouThink #AndBehindYou
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Old Iron

See the children, there in the village square.
See them holding hands, skipping around in circles, holding hands.
Hear them singing happily, carefree...

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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul"
(Keep the cold iron close.)

#Halloween #Spookyseason #Nurseryrhymes #EastCoastKin
October 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Ancient One

A hush clings to the clearing’s breath,
The Sentinel stands lone in death.
Black feathers crown its crooked height,
A silent court in falling night.

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Look with your eyes. See with your Soul.
(Fear for your life)

#Halloween #BlackandWhite #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin
October 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Turtle Moves!

One from this time last year, one of the big solar storms we had. It can do it again - I'm keen! I se a giant turtle in the sky, hence the title. :)

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

#Aurora #Stunday #EastCoastKin #Nightscape #Landscape
October 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Never Trust a Spring

A year ago, we woke up to this. A late snow straight from the south pole!

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

#Spring #Snow #WhatAreSeasonsAnyway #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin #Scape
October 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A Night on Old Route 66.

Some sections of the original concrete Route 66 are intact, bypassed when the interstate freeways were built and aligned for easier driving.

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#Nightscape #Route66 #Roadtrip #Travel #Scape #EastCoastKin #Astrophotography #Landscape #Photography
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Lindis in the snow

I love heading through the Lindis, it's a lovely bit of twisty, winding alpine road that is always really pretty. But, I do think it's best in winter!
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@LindisPass, #NewZealand.
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin #Snow #Travel
October 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Syrupy Sunset
I love when the photons get lazy at the end of the day, and just flow over the landscape like thick maple syrup splodging across the rocks.
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#Wellington, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Sunset #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin #Roadtrip #PureNZ
October 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Sundown

And come the end of day,
In some secluded bay.
Find me in the Sun's last ray.
I'll fondly smile, and bid thee... "Stay."

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

#Wandering #Sunset #Poetry #Roadtrip #PureNZ #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin #WhereAmI
October 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Tops

The high peaks of New Zealand Southern Alps, just lovely.

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

#Mountains #BackCountry #SouthernAlps #EastCoastKin #NewZealand #PureNZ
October 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Cold Little Creek
Tumbling down from snow-crested peaks to the valley far below, where I wait with my camera to go "Oh, job well done, you look fantastic!" *click*

It's like being a paparazzi, but for tiny flakes of snow.

Otago, #NewZealand

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

#Stunday
October 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Glide time

A lonely seagull heading home.

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

#Sunset #Photography #Landscape #Seagull #Roadtrip #EastCoastKin #Coast #PhotographersofBluesky
October 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Overlooking Bryce

Early morning in Bryce Canyon. The blizzard has cleared overnight, and the day dawns bright and shiny and quiet. Oh so quiet. There's nothing quite like standing alone in fresh snow on a gorgeous morning.

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Bryce Canyon, USA
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#Scape #EastCoastKin #Landscape #Photography #Epic
October 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Very Demure

When your Aurora is getting all demure and hiding behind the clouds, at least we can take consolation that they're pretty clouds!

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

#Aurora #Blocked #Nightscape #Astro #Landscape #Clouds #EastCoastKin #BucketList
October 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM