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April 17, 2008
I'm in another wirelessed holiday park at Fairlie, a little town near Lake Tekapo. We spent the day exploring the high country around the Rangitata River. This is the country that Peter Jackson shot Lord of the Rings and where I once worked putting up fences whilst a student at Canterbury University.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, returning to Mt Somers, NZ, 2008
It was grey, overcast with drizzle in the Rangitata country near Mt Potter and Erewhon stations and it only cleared as we came out of the Valley to return to our base at Mt Somer to make our way to Mt Cooke. That moment was brief as it clouded over again as the cloud descended. Most of my photographs did not work because of the heavy mist.
It would be very difficult to do serious wilderness photography here. You would have to stay at a place for a while and get to know the area and the light and use a large format camera (5X 4) if you wanted to avoid the pretty tourist images.
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we are following your blog posts, have the same (suggested) mist in our face here . . . so wireless rules eh! cheers from mal E + Bh