Author: Peter Peryer

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Natalie

 
 
Currently, at the Gus Fisher Gallery
in Shortland Street, Auckland
a selection from the last 30 years.
 
Here is a portrait that my
father made, this one of my sister
Natalie when she was about 15 yrs old.
 
 

Buddha, Kaukapakapa

 
 
This black and white photo
I took in 1998.
The golden statue sits on a hill 
above a Tibetan Buddhist
community in Kaukapakapa,
about 30 minutes north of central Auckland.
About 2 weeks ago I visited the
statue again and this colour photo
is the result.

Red

 
 
Recently I have been buying
red notebooks. Don’t know why 
exactly except that I like the 
look of them and there is something about them
that appeals to me. I might make a few squiggles 
on one or two pages but generally I don’t write in them.
 

Suites

 

I am playing around with some recent photos, laying them out on an unironed
sheet, and seeing if in some way they get along. I want them to speak to each
other.

Patu Muka



Last weekend, Puke Ariki,
the museum here in New Plymouth,
brought some maori
stone tools out from storage so that
visitors could pick them up,
and generally come to appreciate them more.


Many of them were Patu muka,
from patu which is a word
for clubs of various sorts and
muka which is the word for
flax fibre.


These implements were used 
to pound the flax leaves as a way
of extracting the fibre which was
an invaluable resource, used in many ways.

Personally I found it a rich experience,
so much so in fact that I went twice.

Passionfruit

 
I took this photo almost two years
ago and have only just
resurrected it.
 
Yesterday I put it on 
my Facebook page
without any attached comment.
 
I was surprised at the level of response 
 and it’s made me
look at it again.
 
An interesting point about
passionfruit, this South American plant,
 is that the name comes
from the flower whose parts 
were thought by missionaries to represent the
instruments of torture used in
the Passion of Christ eg the crown
of thorns, and the whips.

Lily

 
 
Once again I have been
tempted to photograph a flower.
 
When I look back
on my photographic career I 
can see that it has been
quite botanical.
 
Mind you, at an early
stage of my life I did
study some science subjects
at secondary school 
and university,
I’ve always been in awe of science.
 
In lab classes sometimes 
I was required to dissect flowers 
and draw all the individual parts,
sometimes in Indian Ink.
 
It has been said that photography 
has a science father and an art mother.
I like that concept.
 

2012

 
 
I offer my apologies for not posting 
for so long, not since November 18, 2011
in fact. Goodness gracious.
 
I seemed to run out of anything to say
for a while even though I had up until that time
written 947 posts.
 
Perhaps my mind was elsewhere.
Never mind summer is here and 
now I am back.


The scene above is at East End beach
here in New Plymouth. The ocean is the Tasman,
and from this point there is no more land
until Australia.


On a technical note, ‘noise’ is
very noticeable in this image.
Noise is the equivalent of grain
in film. The severity of it in this instance
may have something
to do with shooting into the sun.


Taken with an iPhone 4 this 
problem has been addressed with
the new model, the 4 s.
The images that it takes are
markedly cleaner.
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