Calla Lilies

When driving past a roadside

flower stall I noticed these 

Calla Lilies. One snap with

my iPhone and I was happy.

 Below is a photo that I took in 1981, 

just after I had started 

photographing. These Blood Lilies

were in the grounds of Auckland 

University.

In this case it was the leaves

that I was interested in, not

the flower, attributable

probably to working in black

and white and not colour.

Tower of Song.

This is my latest photo, taken

in Auckland last Saturday.

First thing that I was reminded of

was the work shown on the contact

sheets below made sometime in the eighties.

I unearthed these during a recent

tidy up.

The structure in the top photo is a coat stand,

the objects in the contact sheet are the

legs of a small table.

I'm going to print the top photo soon,

quite large.

Whittling

Some years ago I 

cut a privet down

and selecting as many

little branches 

as possible I 

whittled away at them until

they came out in these shapes.

Lately, as I wrote in the previous post,

I have been in the

mood to carry on with this work, don't know

why after all this time that it has come upon

me but I'll just get on

and enjoy the process.

In the last few days

I decided to scale up size to see

what would happen.

Here is a branch awaiting the

treatment.

Sticks

This morning I have been cutting

away at some dead Whau trees

right outside my bedroom window.

I've saved quite a few of the branches

in case I can manage to whittle them into

shapes that I like.

Here is one at the beginning of its 

transformation, big word for

what I hope will happen.

Makomako

I have a high balcony that projects out

into some native trees.

This tree is a makomako,

known in English as a 

wineberry. The berries

when ripe are the colour

of red wine.

I planted several of these

trees to entice

birds into my

garden.

Lanterns

I have just printed an edition of this

photograph. In this case

I made 10.

Originally I thought that it

might be my Christmas

photo but the more I 

looked at it the more I felt

that it needed to be bigger.

This is Albert Park in Auckland

and the lanterns are there

because it is the Chinese New Year.

Two years old, I treasure

this picture, it touches my heart.

Christmas Past

This was my Christmas photo last

year.

 It has been my practise to

make little photos in December

little photos in largish editions

and at a lowish price.

This photo I keep coming

back to for some reason.

I'm glad about that.

Bluebells

Often over the last few years

I have made Christmas photos.

Here is this years example,

A couple of months ago I had

quite a bad dose of the flu

but managed to get up on a 

Sunday morning and go the 

local Farmer's Market where I 

bought these bluebells.

I was able to take this

photo without even getting

out of bed.

http://starkwhite.blogspot.co.nz/2012/11/peter-peryers-2012-christmas-photograph.html