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April 2, 2009

This is part of the landscape on the Castle Hill Station in Canterbury in the South Island. It is just prior to Arthur's Pass when approaching the pass from the regional city of Christchurch.


rock, Castle Hill , originally uploaded by poodly.

The landscape is a massive amount of bare limestone rock in a valley in the high country and a site for tourists on the way to the West Coast. More of my work is here You can see more images of the region in the work of John O'Malley, a regional photographer who lives in Christchurch. (I don't know if he is on Flickr).

Someone who is on Flickr is Kate Pedly a geologist. She was recently at Castle Hill and depicted the atmosphere of the basin.

09March28_New Zealand_020.jpg Gary Sauer-Thompson, rocks, Castle Hill

On this occasion was more attracted to the rock forms than the atmospherics of the base.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 7:47 PM | | Comments (3)
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These are monoliths. Why the stark blunt photography?

Pam I had been reading David Eggleton's Into the Light:A history of New Zealand Photography where he said that:

For the nature photographer, the landscape is a source of mystic essentialism: the generator of awe, the fount of the sublime. Rhapsodic landscapes have been central to the history of New Zealand photography since the arrival of wet-plate photography itself.In the 1980s, with the increasing conservationist promotion of New Zealand as a green ark, albeit a damaged one, nature photography's role as a form of bush evangelism became even more urgent.(p.149)

I wanted to avoid the bush evangelism and the mystic essentialism.

Re "the nature photographer, the landscape is a source of mystic essentialism"
Do you mean the work of landscape photographers such as Craig Potton and Andris Apse? The holy wilderness?