Saturday, April 14, 2012. Harbin Snow and Ice Festival. This is a collection of photos, some in addition to those on my main blog. Temperatures were around -16C during the day and plunging to around -26C as the sun went down. This noticeable drop started around 3. Blocks of snow waiting for the snow carving competition.

My latest series of blogs will be photos taken not so far from home. I do have to travel in order to take them; even if is on foot, bike or a short trip in the car. So they do qualify as travel photos! Monday, July 13, 2015. With the recent cold weather and a continuation of -8C frosts, there is plenty of ice around. The duck-pond down near the Pleasant Point Domain has frozen over. All the ducks have gone except 6 rather tame white geese.

Having recently retired and unpacked after 7 years away, I have discovered my boxes of colour slides taken in 1974 when we were in Papua New Guinea. As the slides are in perfect condition, my aim will be to copy them and post some online here and give some sort of narrative as well. Monday, January 27, 2014.

This blog now has a new URL as it appears that some bright spark had set up an automatic viewing of the site to register about 30 hits every three hours. Sunday, July 17, 2016. Lake Brunner - part 2. This is the second blog of our weekend at Lake Brunner with Focus Aorangi. The photographic club based in Timaru. Covers mainly lake and river scenes. Carew Falls with a one metre granite boulder waiting to tumble down the river after a significant flood.