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		<title>The fish are jumping!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight&#8217;s paper has a story of a fisherman who caught a big-eye tuna yesterday while fishing off the Boulder Bank here in Nelson.  A magnificent fish and an extremely rare catch in these parts.  People commented on all the action right now: lots of small fish, kahawai and even kingfish.  I can quite believe it, because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Port Nelson Street Races 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year was the 20th anniversary of this event.  Spectator turnout seemed to be down a bit, probably due to all the recent wet weather.  But it was a good day for racing.  I got a lot of good pictures, far too many to post here.  I&#8217;ll put them up on my pBase site over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Greetings!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve in Nelson this year was warm and sunny, a welcome change from the floods and landslides a week ago.  Our Pohutukawa tree is in flower, in spite of the insults it received earlier in the year. The flowers are always welcome, for New Zealanders they are a sign of Christmas: a great attraction for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wakapuaka Cemetary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our camera club had a &#8216;low light&#8217; session last week.  The location chosen was the Wakapuaka cemetary, a place full of potential.  I think this cemetary gives its residents some of the best views one could hope for, high on a hillside overlooking Nelson Haven.  Trouble is after 16,000 people have been buried here, all the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samuel Rose Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning I was up early, meeting a friend at the Samuel Rose Garden.  He&#8217;s a talented young photographer and had suggested that we get there at sunrise.  He was right: the light was great at that time of day.  The rose garden in located in the grounds of an historic home in Nelson, Broadgreen. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wonderful Dunedin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My reason for the trip south (which gave the images in the last two posts) was to attend a photographic convention in Dunedin.  This was great.  I have a low tolerance for lousy, long-winded speakers.  But the three presentations at this meeting were a real treat.  For me the highlight was an inspiring talk by Jane Trotter, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moeraki</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Moeraki Boulders must be one of the most photographed features on the New Zealand coastline.  My son, when he learned that we were heading that way, challenged me to produce an image that wasn&#8217;t a cliche.  Not easy.  I started early one morning with this attempt: It&#8217;s a nice image, but I&#8217;m not sure I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shag Point / Matakaea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a trip to Dunedin we stopped over at Shag Point for a few days.  Less than an hour north of Dunedin, this is a wonderful spot.  Scenery, wildlife, history, geology &#8211; Shag Point has it all. Each morning I managed to get out well before sunrise.  The results were worth the effort: The settlement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soviet October Revolution Parade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the anniversary of the socialist revolution in Russia, I guess it will be the 94th.  40 years ago, we were in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) at the time of the 54th anniversary.  We were lucky enough to see the October Revolution Parade and, to our surprise, found ourselves in the middle of it.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An afternoon in Christchurch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just returned from a trip south, spending a night in Christchurch on the way home. The city was so different from my last visit, a couple of weeks before the February earthquake. We left the car close to the apartment we lived in, in Park Terrace.  That building seem to have survived quite well [...]]]></description>
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