Fleeting moments frozen in time
One of my favourite shots from my trip to Western Australia in 2003 was a picture of a mother and child strolling by Busselton jetty. Little did I realize how similar in subject matter this particular shot at Jack’s Bay (along the Caitlin Coast of New Zealand) was until I started to post this blog entry. We were actually heading towards Jack’s Blowhole but took a wrong turn. Fortunately, the wrong turn led to a high vantage point which came in perfect for this picture! 🙂
What can a visit to New Zealand be without seeing sheep? According to one myth, New Zealand has 3 million people and 60 million sheep! Although this was true in the past, it was estimated that there were 40.1 million estimated resident sheep at 30 June 2006 (versus a human population of 4 million), giving a ratio of 10 sheep per person. I was lucky to catch this baby lamb looking for a drink of milk in a field along Milford Road.
A different version of the spiral staircase that I took at the Chinese Gardens…
Normally, I wouldn’t have expected the perfect subject to crop along that easily when composing shots such as this one. Guess I was a little lucky that day when this boy decided to take a peek right back at me with his digital camera (somemore, dressed in attention-grabbing red!).
