Koru

I don't have much time to write today because I have two papers due on the same day next week and I want to write one today (have I mentioned how much I miss the block plan - having Mondays and Fridays off are great, but having 4 different subjects at once is not). Anyway, this is an image I took while tramping in the Abel Tasman National Park. I like the fact that you can see the fern in the background as well as the spiral in the foreground - both national symbols of New Zealand. I promise to post more landscape images soon, but I took over 5,000 images so I'm still sorting through them and I haven't had much time lately. Anyway, I hope you have enjoyed the ones I've put up so far!

Droplet

This is pretty much the ultimate New Zealand image. The silver fern is New Zealand's national emblem and one can see it literally everywhere. I took this photo while tramping in the Abel Tasman National Park after a bit of rain had come through. I have tried to get so many fern photographs, but not that many seem to turn out well, so I was very excited when I saw that this one did. Abel Tasman is a marvalous area, with more beaches than one can count and so much more. Ben and I went on a tramp over 12km one day in the park and we didn't even see a 3rd of it. More photos of the beattuiful landscape of the South Island to come, so keep coming back!

Check out my youtube page for two videos I uploaded from the break (one of bungy jumping, one of skydiving): http://www.youtube.com/crescentcompositions
Click Here for my facebook album (mainly photos of friends on the trip).

Silver Fern

Tonight I will be attending an All Blacks game, but it's not just any All Blacks, it's an All Blacks vs. Wallabies game (the New Zealand vs. Australia national rugby teams). In honor of that, I decided to post a photo today of a silver fern: the most noticeable of New Zealand's logos and the All Blacks logo. We crossed them everywhere on our hikes in the Coromandel Peninsula, but this one caught our eye because of the sunlight on it. I didn't get as good of a photograph as I would have liked, but I still think it is a pretty cool photo to look at. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have a photograph of the All Blacks game itself .


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