A Study in Winter

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one king of a world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different......."

J.B. Priestley

Apes and Angels

I'm ready to wake up in a different kind of world

A winter world of snow and purity

Of stark trees and mists A world devoid of ruin and uncertainty A world where the air is still

A world where the ground is still

And reliable. All Photos taken in Christchurch and Lindis Pass Ajr 2011

Driving Into A Southern Winter

This is the Lindis Pass landscape I drove through a couple of days ago on my way south to Wanaka. White, Empty, Silent.

May 2009. Ajr

Where Hills Look Like Teddy Bear Bottoms

Lindis Pass, South Island. 2007. Ajr

This is the Lindis Pass – a spectacular road pass in the central South Island that links the MacKenzie Basin with Central Otago. Characterised by brown hills that remind me of teddy bears’ bottoms, the landscape here is always dramatic – hot, brown and dry in summer with impossibly blue skies; and cold, harsh and snow-covered in winter. It’s one of my favourite stretches of road.