We asked our first goodearth contributor to write about his images. Richard now has five pieces on the website. Rich is an amazing talented designer from New Zealand, with a love of photography. We feel really excited to have him work with us. Please read below his descriptions of all his beautiful photographs that he has shared with us as a goodearth contributor. Check out his work in the gallery, and see his newest photograph, Haydes.
Sink or Swim
Taken on the west coast of Auckland around the infamous Piha and Bethel's Beach area, this coast is such a haunting place and takes so many lives because of the violence of the waves, The sea is angry, roaring, white and the sand is a super fine volcanic camera killing beast (My camera died just after this photo because of it). If you ever get the chance to visit this coast, come in the winter when the ferocity is turned up to 11, the atmosphere is simply haunting and it will stay in your soul for a lifetime.
Boyancy
I used to live on the idyllic Waiheke Island off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand and at the time I was running my freelance design business so I was free to walk my children down the hill to the bus stop. I would then stroll into the little town, order a large soy latte bowl in the Spice Cafe and plan my day before strolling back along the beach to my home office. I work for major blue chip clients all over the world. It often struck me and still does at the irony that I was floating about on this tiny island working for some of the worlds largest companies, and seeing this humble boat just merrily bobbing about surrounded by multimillion dollar yachts just made me smile in recognition.
Gateway
Taken again on the westcoast of New Zealand, on the beach they filmed that beautiful scene in the Piano , where the grand piano is
being washed ashore. You can almost feel the spirits of the people who would have lost their lives on that beach, either taken by the sea or at others hands. I always fel such a connection and humbled by the power of the sea and bush on that coast. We stumbled upon this beach hut that some foolhardy but brave person had started building. However, by the looks of it, decided that it was too much effort to keep fighting nature in this place and let the sea, sand and wind take back what belongs to them.
Mun-Key
These are cheeky buggers, these monkey. Quite often when you enter the temples in India you have to empty your pockets and make sure you have no food. If you don't, these opportunists sheltering in sacred places will have a way with your valuables. To them, they are playthings and amusements. This photo was taken by my father in India on his last holiday before succumbing to Cancer, and I acquired it when I inherited the camera. It has a great sentimentality to me as many Indian's believe in reincarnation. Come to think of it, he does look a bit like my dad. Not quite sure what happened to his ear though.
Haydes
It had been a hard couple of months and we designed to go away for the night with the kids to Rotaroa, not the nicest of town in New Zealand but possible one of the wierdest and most interesting as its based on a geothermal spa. The water bubbles up and produces a smell that takes your breath away. The flipside being that you can pass wind without blaming it on the kids or dog as no matter how much fallafal you've been eating. It's never as bad as the smell of the place. Anyway, just our luck we discovered that we had only booked a holiday on the very weekend that the Rapture was forecast, thankfully I had agreed to pay at the end of the stay, so if Armageddon did come rolling in I wouldn't have wasted any money. After a sleepless night. due to my son being disturbed by the smell, I made my mind to go for a walk with the little fellow and see if the sun was going to rise. I must admit it was touch and go as to if the world had ended, or not, as there was a deathly stench. I think it was actually one of us though after the rich dinner the night before. This was captured as a thick fog rising from the lake next to the hotel and a steaming sun, not to mention the deathly cawing of the birds on the lake. If you listen carefully, you might just hear them.
No offense, but if there's a facebook like button, it'll be much easier for me to share.
Posted by: elliptical reviews | November 30, 2011 at 02:23 AM