Captive II
- Captive II
Description
A romanticized notion, an idea; the thought or feeling rather than the reality - the romantic perception. We find ourselves as captive as they are.
Fields
Photography
Date
2012
Other Projects
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Flight III
The romance of flight
2013
Photography
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captive III
Portraits of captive creatures
2013
Photography
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Epitaph II
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2012
Photography
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Epitaph
Food photography
2011
Photography
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Geese
'Geese' is part of my continuing exploration into finding 'value' where none appears apparent, particularly with birds and animals that came to my country when colonization occurred in the mid to late 1800's. Our rural beginnings were heavily reliant on domestic birds and farm animals for survival. While agriculture is still a very big earner in my country (and many other countries in the west) the animals as individuals have lost the value and importance they once had to us in our every day lives, as we have divorced ourselves from the land and the things we eat.
2012
Photography
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Poultry ll
Portraits of poultry
2011
Photography
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Turkey
A typology of Turkeys
2012
Photography
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Poultry
A poultry typology
2011
Photography
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Domestic Birds
A typology
2011
Photography
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Captive
Portraits
2011
Photography
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Native & Endemic II
Portraits of native and endemic birds
2012
Photography
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native & endemic
birds of new zealand
2012
Photography
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portraits of country children
I shot these outside in a bush behind the school in ambient light. There were no hair brushes, no fancy outfits or props and no instructions to smile. I captured what children offered me
2012
Photography
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Portrait
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2011
Photography, Digital Photography
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Small things II
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2012
Photography
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small things
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2012
Photography
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north II
Caught somewhere between seeing and remembering
2013
Photography
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North
Scenes from the North
2012
Photography
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South
The romantic south
2011
Photography
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Dwell II
A typology of the places we store ourselves
2012
Photography
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Dwell
The places we store ourselves.
2012
Photography
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Town II
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2012
Photography
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Town
Passing through
2011
Photography
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Seascapes
For the sea and the sky and the sky and the sea. Romantic notions of the sea.
2011
Photography, Digital Photography
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Flock
The coming of night
2011
Photography
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Flight II
The romance of flight
2012
Photography
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Flight
A romance of birds in flight
2012
Photography
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Water Fowl
Tales from the pond
2012
Photography
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A Memoir of Trees
A memoir of trees
2011
Photography
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Landscapes
Rural New Zealand landscapes
2011
Photography
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Pole to pole
Power poles from the traveled road
2011
Photography
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Tales from the Midlands
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2012
Photography
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Tales from the Midlands II
Moments from out on the road
2012
Photography
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Worthship
Worthship...a condition of being worthy of honor. The greater the worth of something is held, the greater the honor or renown something should be given.
2012
Photography
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Counting Sheep
Idyllic landscapes
2011
Photography
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Exotics
In the 1860's & 70's non-migratory carnivorous birds from the 'homeland' of Europe were introduced to New Zealand to control the plagues of insects that had come about due to deforestation and unwitting imports in food and goods.
Settlers were paid not insignificant sums for bringing out live breeding pairs. Many birds did not survive the voyage and many attempts were made before success was reached.
Birds were kept in special breeding aviaries or 'Acclimatization Gardens' in the Auckland Domain to build populations up. Visitors to the colony often remarked on the unusualness of seeing such common English birds treated as distinguished guests.
Those so called 'distinguished guests' now go unnoticed; they've become part of the furniture, even considered pests or at the least competition for our native birds. 2012 Photography