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Leslie
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#Kuirau Park has so many gorgeous thermal springs
#Rotorua #photography #NewZealand #springs
A natural pond formed by a thermal spring, stream coming off water as the low sun shines through bushes which reflect off the gently burbling water
September 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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I really liked this tree at #Hobbiton, particularly the way the branch came down like an elephant's tusk to seemingly cradle and display a small bower of snowdrops.
August 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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The laundry hamper at my friend's place judged me for dropping trou. 😂

#pareidolia #anthropomorphism
Tall, dark, woven rectangular laundry hamper with lid and rectangular hole/handle on the side facing the camera. Two rolls of toilet paper sit on top, the one of the left is new and full, the one on the right is half used with a little piece hanging off the right edge looking sort of like a cartoon eyelid, giving it a bit of a "wtf, mate/you are doing me a confuse" expression
July 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Went to the National Aquarium in #Napier to feed #kororā for my birthday. This is Captain (the '20 Penguin of the Year), wondering why I'm not making with the fish already. He ended up getting 5 sprat during this one of his three daily feelings.

#NewZealand #photography🪶
Photo looking down from a seated position, the view being down the side of the right leg towards sand. You see jeans and an impatient little blue penguin standing about 25cm/12" tall just centimeters from the sneaker, looking up the leg with his good eye (he lost the other in a fight with a sea bird, which is why he lives in the Aquarium now)
July 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Went out on a Black Cat cruise from #Akaroa again, and watched this one Hectors #dolphin jump into and and bounce off of the other 🤣

#photography #NewZealand #Aotearoa
Photo 1 of 2 taken half a second apart. 2 Hectors dolphins underwater, and 2 at the surface (one slightly behind the other). The One slightly behind is coming is quickly and is about to jump slightly out of the water onto its podmate. This species has a dorsal fin that is rounded and looks like a Mickey Mouse ear rather than the classic fin shape of other dolphins. Photo 2 of 2 taken half a second apart. 2 Hectors dolphins underwater, and 2 at the surface (one slightly behind the other). The One slightly behind has jumped slightly out of the water onto its podmate, causing a splash as that one is pushed into the water, while the jumper has been captured in the moment of bouncing off its podmate. This species has a dorsal fin that is rounded and looks like a Mickey Mouse ear rather than the classic fin shape of other dolphins.
July 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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I just liked the colors and the clarity of their reflections even if it wasn't the exact angle I wanted. These pigeons were hanging out on a pylon at the #Picton Ferry Terminal.

#NewZealand #roadtrip #photography 🪶
Photo of teal water in the background with ripples from the wind. An orange rusted pylon is in the middle of the photo, with tall rim around a hollow section at the top. 10 pigeons stand around the narrow lip, each within a few inches of each other. There is water in the hollow, and you can see clearly the reflection of several bird butts. The orange really stands out against the teal, and the several of the birds stand out especially well at the top of the circular rim because their upper halves are shown against the intense blue.
July 8, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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An adorable at-risk #kākā enjoying a snack at a feeding station at #Zealandia. Females are especially vulnerable to introduced stoats when nesting, so males outnumber them 5:1. Introduced possums compete for nectar, restricting breeding conditions.

#photography #NewZealand #conservation 🪶
July 6, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi.

Freshwater #eels at the Wop Wops. Such neat critters!

#NZ #photography #roadtrip
5 freshwater eels of varying sizes just below the surface of a stream, hoping I have food for them
July 3, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Temple monkey at Uluwatu admiring himself between unsuccessful bouts of trying to rip the mirror and orange scarf off the motorcycle.
Monkey sits between the handlebars is a parked motorcycle, holding the right mirror with both hands as he admires himself in it. Unseen: the motorcycle has no seat cover or cushioning anymore, thanks to these cute, destructive kleptomaniacs.
July 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Excellent night to be an insomniac. Not bad for phone photos (camera was doing time lapses). The show is going to continue on and off all night - so go outside!

#aurora #Wellington #photography
Long exposure of waves crashing in a rocky shoreline with a thin dark band of sky spring deep pastel pinks gradually turning purple into navy blue at the top of the image. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds and others stars are visible Long exposure of waves crashing in a rocky shoreline with a vivid red pillars and glow against a dark night sky. Stars are visible through the vibrant colors
June 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Excellent night to be an insomniac. Not bad for phone photos (camera was doing time lapses). The show is going to continue on and off all night - so go outside!

#aurora #Wellington #photography
Long exposure of waves crashing in a rocky shoreline with a thin dark band of sky spring deep pastel pinks gradually turning purple into navy blue at the top of the image. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds and others stars are visible Long exposure of waves crashing in a rocky shoreline with a vivid red pillars and glow against a dark night sky. Stars are visible through the vibrant colors
June 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Female Chaffinch (Pahirini) in Curio Bay

#photography #wildlife #curioBay #NewZealand 🪶
Small bird sits on a bramble surrounded by dead fern fronds, facing right, her light and dark grey coloring and sharp triangle beak standing out against a pale blue sky
May 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Fun with sun rays ahead of the storm moving in yesterday, before things got to rough in #WaitataReach and we had to turn back.

#NewZealand #PelorusSound #MailBoat
Forested hill between a cloudy sky and dark water off the sound, with sun rays piercing the textured clouds and highlighting streaks of forest
May 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Two years ago today, I hosted my last crawfish boil. Not on purpose, but Life happened before the ones I would have had in 2024, and I left the country before the first one I would have had this year.

I'm lucky and grateful to have so many great (and delicious!) memories with wonderful people.
Photo of a Louisiana-style crawfish boil spilled across a table for serving, showing the mix of crawfish, shrimp, corn, sausage, potato, heads of garlic, celery, orange, lemon, etc Photo of a Louisiana-style crawfish boil spilled across a table for serving, showing crawfish, shrimp, corn, sausage, potato, heads of garlic, celery, orange, lemon, etc
May 22, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Autumn in Blenheim
Background: grey sky, harvested grape vines with the last of their golden leaves, foreground: two sheep grazing on healthy green grass
May 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Red-beaked and black-backed #gulls going after offal and trim tossed overboard by fishermen in #Akaroa at the end of their day.

I think I'll always be able to hear these photos. 🤣

#photography #NewZealajd 🪶
Juvenile and adult black-backed gulls having a disagreement over who's snack it is. The juvenile is brown and grey mottled, standing up to a full-grown adult who had their wing outstretched to and behind them as they get close to the juvenile, who has their wings partially open. Red-branded guild. 2 sure on the water looking calm, one sits if the water with wings back mod-flap, and the first gull is in the process of trying to drag a big chunk of guts and skin out of the water. Their wings are curved around them and over their head as they backwing hard to try to take off with their prize. 4 seagulls sit calmly on the dark water as a fifth tries hard to take off with a huge snack Two gulls go after a piece of fish guts and skin, one tugging with a bite in it's break trying to backwing away, and the other in the process of landing just behind the first. The water is deep, dark blue, with red reflecting off the fishing vessel from which their snack came.
May 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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This little autumny #mushroom really caught my eye on a walk in the #Catlins on the way to #CathedralCaves.

#photography #NewZealand #fungi
A small, bright yellow mushroom with a deep orange top of its cap stands out against a backdrop of brown and mahogany leaves, twigs, and seeds, offset by green fern leaves in the upper right, and bright green leaves of a tiny plant in the lower left
May 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Here are some dusky #dolphins playing in #Kaikoura 's South Bay. Couldn't pick one photo for today, so you get 4.

#photography #wildlife #marinemammal #NewZealand #conservation 🐙
Two dolphins leaping in the distance, on their way back down to the water. The dolphin on the left is pointed down at a fairly steep angle, and the one on the right is curved in a rainbow arc fairly parallel to the water. 3 dolphins swimming past a dark brown beach with trees behind the beach. Only the dorsal fins of the two in the front can be seen as they swim towards the left side of the image, and between them and the beach on the left side of the image is a dolphin mid-leap, caught in a nose-down position as water streams off its hack half. Close photo of two dusky dolphins in green water, splashing back in as their backs are exposed for a breath while they swim fast next to the boat Dolphin flipping through the air in front of a brown beach backed by trees and green hills. It is leaping from left to right in the photo, and you can see the splash from its exit left of where it has been caught in a nose-down position as its butt flips over its head. Not shown is the impending belly flop.
May 17, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Sleepy #NewZealand fur #seals in #Kaikoura.

#photography #wildlife #conservation #Waterdoggos🐙
Tiny fur seal pup curled up tightly on siltstone at the beach, asleep. Adult New Zealand fur seal drowsing in the grass.
May 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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#NewZealand fur #seal pup at the colony in #Kaikoura

The side-eye game is STRONG. I was sad to hear several adults coughing (not in warning), and wondered how many dead pups is normal to see on a visit this time of year (I saw 6). Really want to learn more.

#wildlife #photography #conservation 🦑
Young adolescent New Zealand fur seal pup's top half is seen in profile, in a raised position with its nose in the air. Only one eye is visible, and that eye is giving strong side-eye vibes. The late afternoon sky behind the pup is pink, it is surrounded by limestone and grass.
May 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Forgot the hashtags to boost visibility. Again. 😒

#photography #NewZealand #Canterbury #Akaroa #wildlife #penguin #adorable🪶
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I got to briefly meet Arwen and Aragorn, a pair of Little White Flippered #Penguins at the #Pohatu Conservation Trust in Flea Bay a couple days ago. 😍 Support important efforts (conservation, rehabilitation, reforestation, predator control, education, etc) at www.pohatu.co.nz/Trust/adopt-...
Guide largely off camera crouching behind a wooden penguin box marked with a plastic tag that says, "B38." The simple box is on on dry dirt and pine needles, lifting the lid to check in on the mated pair of Little White-Flippered Penguins inside. Tourists get a brief, special glimpse of these shy creatures as their guide (Ben, in this case) checks the birds and notes the time, date, number of penguins there, and their condition in their special app. The encounter is brief, and cut extra-short if the penguins make any sign if distress or unhappiness. This feathered couples' names are Arwen and Aragorn, named by the person who sponsored the box.
May 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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I got to briefly meet Arwen and Aragorn, a pair of Little White Flippered #Penguins at the #Pohatu Conservation Trust in Flea Bay a couple days ago. 😍 Support important efforts (conservation, rehabilitation, reforestation, predator control, education, etc) at www.pohatu.co.nz/Trust/adopt-...
Guide largely off camera crouching behind a wooden penguin box marked with a plastic tag that says, "B38." The simple box is on on dry dirt and pine needles, lifting the lid to check in on the mated pair of Little White-Flippered Penguins inside. Tourists get a brief, special glimpse of these shy creatures as their guide (Ben, in this case) checks the birds and notes the time, date, number of penguins there, and their condition in their special app. The encounter is brief, and cut extra-short if the penguins make any sign if distress or unhappiness. This feathered couples' names are Arwen and Aragorn, named by the person who sponsored the box.
May 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Something different from my usual photography subjects, because this spray of wild rose hips popping off the drab late autumn drying grass at the south end of #LakePukaki just really caught my eye.
#photography #roses
Drying grass makes up the backdrop to a deep brown rose branch entering the photo from the right. The branch has smaller green- and yellow-leafed twigs, and dozens of bright red rose hips catching the eye.
May 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Watch the pole on the other side of the gate. 🫨 😳

🎼🎵Slide to the left
Slide to the right
Let me hear you clap your hands 🎶
May 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Some quick phone shots this afternoon. #Akaroa gives me very strong SF Bay Area-adjacent vibes in the best ways. With bonus FANTASTIC legit French bakery that makes the best croissant and baguette I've had since Paris.
Evening fog creeping over verdant rolling hills dotted with trees and the occasional sheep Photo looking down a hill to Akaroa Bay. Grasses on the foreground, rolling vivid green hills with fingers of fog just starting to creep over from the right, a shining bay in front of the hills on the opposite shore, and light clouds in a blue and yellow late afternoon sky
May 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM