Two Auckland Views

Here are a couple of views of Auckland

that I saw recently and couldn't resist

having a look at via my camera.

I have noticed that when I do make

cityscape photos like this I do have a

tendency to make them look post-apocalyptic,

or at the least, like something from the

Communist era. There are never any

open windows, or people on the footpaths.

In fact even now, when I look at the

photo below I find myself itching

to get Photoshop to work and remove

the lights from the windows.

About 30 years ago when

I was just starting as a photographer

I was asked if I would take a series of

publicity photos for Parnell, which

at that time was rapidly being gentrified,

and was working on building it's image.

I approached the task with gusto,

there was a fee, that was an added

inducement. When I showed the first dozen

or so photos to the person supervising the project

it was amicably agreed that perhaps I was

not the right person for the job.

The entire bunch of photos made

Parnell look like Chernobyl.