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Red Admiral at Karitane

A Red Admiral Butterfly at Karitane Peninsula, just north of Dunedin, New Zealand. Sort of a lucky shot, as is the norm with any good photos I take - we saw the butterfly land on the rocks and I just...

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Seal Sunbathing

This was taken at Karitane Peninsula, about 40 minutes drive north of Dunedin, New Zealand. The seal only stayed long enough for me to take this and one other photo before swimming off soon after. Was...

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Conical Hill

Conical Hill is a volcanic cone near Middlemarch, New Zealand, where I went on a field trip last year. It is symmetrical and covered only in grasses except for the single tree on top. This photo was...

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Reflections

Photo taken at Blue Lake, St Bathans, in Central Otago, New Zealand. The reflections of the rocks on the lake were amazing, though there was the faintest breeze which caused a few ripples whenever I...

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Life, apparently.

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Seal at Karitane

Another seal photo, again at Karitane. This was taken last year around easter, while I was doing field work on Karitane Peninsula.

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Squirrel in London

On a recent trip to Norway I stopped by London for a day on the way back and took a liking to Hyde Park. Between playing around with my new camera and finding strange (to me) wildlife, I took a picture...

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Rangitoto

Rangitoto, the youngest volcano in the Auckland Volcanic Field (only ~500 or so years old), taken from Takapuna Beach.

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Golden Retriever at the Beach

This is a photo of my family's golden retriever, Chloe, enjoying running around at Takapuna Beach in Auckland. I just thought her pose and the 'grin' portrayed her enjoyment in the moment pretty well.

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Snow Day - Flax

We had a lot of snow (almost our entire winter's worth) in one day in Dunedin, New Zealand. This is part of a series of photos taken that day.

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Snow Day - Hedge

We had a lot of snow (almost our entire winter's worth) in one day in Dunedin, New Zealand. This is part of a series of photos taken that day.

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Cargill to the Harbour

A view of Dunedin Harbour (and Tairoa Heads) from Mt Cargill Road on a recent walk from Graham's Bush to the top of Mt Cargill. Was going for the artistic look with the Lancewood tree in the foreground.

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Heddal stavkirke

Heddal stavkirke (Heddal stave church), Norway's largest stave church. It's in the Nottoden municipality a couple of hours drive out of west of Oslo.

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Oseberg Ship

The Oseberg Ship from the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway. Very impressive ship, pretty sure my photo doesn't do it justice!

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Oseberg Ship Detailing...

Detail on the prow of the Oseberg Ship, from the Viking Ship Museum, Oslo, Norway. The carvings along the edges were incredibly intricate.

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Avenue of Trees

The trees formed avenues down the pathways of Vigeland Sculpture Park (within Frogner Park), Oslo, Norway. I found them to be quite picturesque, especially with all the snow (so much snow!).

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Snow covered bridge

This was a cute little stone bridge over a frozen river near a ski hut (Raasjøstua) near Bjertnessjøen (a lake near Oslo, Norway, with cross country ski tracks around it).

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Heddal stavkirke detailing...

Heddal stavkirke (Heddal stave church), Norway's largest stave church. It's in the Nottoden municipality a couple of hours drive out of west of Oslo. This closeup photo shows one of the doors with...

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Kea eyeing up the camera

The Kea is a New Zealand native mountain parrot, more commonly known as 'that damned cheeky bird which ate the wind screen wipers', or similar, by New Zealander's and tourists alike. On a roadtrip with...

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Toroa - Royal Albatross

A juvenile Royal Albatross as seen from the only mainland nesting site for the species, at Taiaroa Head, Dunedin, New Zealand.There were three nesting adults, incubating eggs when we visited. This...

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Hoiho Preening

At a penguin 'reserve' at Taiaroa Head, Dunedin, New Zealand. Some farmers had put aside a large area of land and were re-planting native trees and setting up nestboxes for Little Blue penguins and...

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Not so easy...

Came across this sign when walking up the infamous India Venster track on Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa. I'd already decided that we weren't walking down the way we'd just came up, as it was...

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Lioness

Photo of a female lion at Aquila Private Game park, near Cape Town, South Africa. There were several females and two males that we got fairly close to until one female (not this one) decided to inspect...

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Emerging from the sea

African Penguin at Boulder, the penguin colony at the beach of Simon's Town, Cape Point, South Africa. There were a lot of penguins there, and very photogenic. This one was just coming in to land after...

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Dassie

This was an incredibly random little animal - a rock hyrax, or dassie. Came across this little one at Cape Point, where it didn't seem too bothered by humans (this photo was taken without zoom and only...

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The Twelve Apostles

The Twelve Apostles, Cape Town, South Africa. View from the top of Lion's Head.

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Table Mountain

Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa. View from the top of Lion's Head.

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