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Blistering hot afternoon in Hokitika

We spent a blistering hot afternoon strolling through Hokitika, a small seaside town on the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

Hokitika

Hongqi, Carters Beach, and a Japanese school class

Cars don’t interest me much, but this Hongqi is wonderfully ugly.

Carters Beach February 2023, I want to go back to.

Japan

Buller gorge New Zealand, print

Another print of a place with a beautiful name, Buller Gorge, also New Zealand.

Craigieburn road, New Zealand, that is

Making prints. This is Craigieburn Road in New Zealand, just past Arthur’s Pass.

Then you find out there is also a place with that unlikely name, Craigieburn, in Australia.

Factoid. The Interweb tells me that the name Craigieburn originates from Scotland. It combines two Scottish words: “craigie,” meaning rocky or craggy, and “burn,” meaning stream or creek. Scottish settlers most likely applied the names of the places in New Zealand and Australia.

Rotorua print

No shortage of color in New Zealand.

Murchison, New Zealand; printed, rephotographed

All those digital archives where jpegs lie, leaking their bits. Making real prints is a beautiful thing, after all.

(Then again, re-photographing the print for this digital world does detract from the quality and experience).

Murchison, New Zealand, is a small South Island town between Nelson and Greymouth.

Wellington for Beginners picture-collage-video

In the series New Zealand for Beginners, I made a new picture-collage video about our stay in Wellington.

New Zealand videos from Rotorua and Napier trips

Got up very early this morning with lots of energy. I finished reading Figuranten, which ends a bit in a minor way. At least that’s how I feel about it.

Made two videos from photos of our New Zealand trip. Then I was so tired I had to lie down again.

Music by Citizen DJ. Very good and not the usual YouTube ladida songs.

Ugly Dumpling

Auckland Airport is home to a friendly shopping mall where mostly local people come to store.

At Ugly Dumpling you can have excellent Chinese food. For the enthusiast, the meal can be expanded to include Chunky Fries with aioli.