20th April 2011 - Te Ahi Kaa – one of the fires at Waitara Beach, Taranaki.
Fires were light around the Taranaki coast to highlight the issue of climate change and to commemorate the one-year anniversary of BP's Gulf Oil Disaster. In Taranaki there were 8 fires lit from Whanganui to Pungarehu, to Tongaporutu.
For me it was to highlight the issue of our coastal resources and the 30 year old request insisting that the Waitara Sewage be pumped into the New Plymouth Carousal for treatment, without delay.

19th April – Andrew, Franny, Andy, Aunt Nell and Gill at Inglewood.

20 March 2011 This is my cat - Colin's offerings – Colin enjoys eating Rabbit.

17 March 2011.WOMAD.
‘Rango’ playing at Tikorangi.
I photographed the group Rango interacting at the local Tikorangi school.

6th March - Eugene Kreisler in a New Plymouth Hospital ward.

3rd March - the First run weaner fair sale for 2011 - the Charolais cattle I raised being sold. The electronic board displays the details of the sale, Stratford.

24 February 2011 - Outside The pre hearing meeting for the NPDC application to continue to use the Marine outfall to discharge sewage onto Orapa reef and at the Waitara river mouth.

21 February The Old Wool Scours Building being demolished to make way for a retirement village, Waitara.

12 February - Christian, a French Traveler visiting Tikorangi.

10 February Cows crossing the Road, Manganui, Inglewood.

8 February - A dragon fly at the old cow shed Inglewood.

6th February 2 Charolais bulls at Tikorangi - these bulls are identical twins.

1st February  Felling the Oak tree at Tikorangi.

3rd February  Ducks sitting in Wrights Lane, at the back of Tom's Video and Fish and Chip shop at Waitara.

2011 January - 3 Cows on Hill at Inglewood.

Pipe-removed from the farm access way. The pipe was supplied from the new Plymouth District Council. I would have liked to donate it to the waitara to Waiwakaiho sewage line - to end the use of the marine outfall that discharges sewage onto Orapa reef at the mouth of the Waitara river.

2011 January - The pipes under the farm access way

January 2011 - Doll in a shop window at Piopio.

2011 January Entrance to Ans Westra exhibtion "The Crescent Moon –The Asian Face of Islam in New Zealand" at Pukeariki, New Plymouth.

29 December - Owen Woods garage in Waitara - Owen recently retired and Derek has taken over - no changes have been made to the offices and workshop.

22 December Waitara corso sale clean-out Day - pay $2 at the door take as much as you can carry ... Lots of people come and clean out the shop by taking as much as they can carry.

21 December  'Bear' the Charolais Bull, Inglewood.

21 December  'Bummer' the Charolais Bull, Inglewood.

17 December - Wairingiringi and Ngarongo holding the image I remade of Te Puapua. The image was for the Dining Room at Owae Marae, Waitara.

16 December Tuti - Ngawhakaheke decorated these shoes as Christmas presents.

14 December - The Waitara Hikoi – protest march meeting the New Plymouth District Councillors to protest against the Non Action of the NPDC on the Waitara sewage system. This issue dates back to the late 1970's and 1980 - to clean up the North Taranaki Coastline & to the Treaty of Waitangi - The Wai 6 Claim findings in 1983 by Te Atiawa. Descendants of the Wai 6 claim carried images to address the Council. Many of the images where from my files from the protest in the 1980's. It was indeed a poignant moment for me.

December  - Meg dog swimming in the Waitara River.

6 Dec - Lindsey an American traveler visiting Tikorangi.

30 November - The Compost bins I made to recycle all the paper created by recent legal wrangling. I approached the making of them as a sculptural piece. The end product will be good food.

3 November  - Coni Ledesma, Urs Signer, Luis Jalandoni & Rod Prosser in New Plymouth. Coni & Luis are Pilipino Activists who toured NZ & presented a public lecture 'JUSTICE AND LIBERATION: THE ROAD TO PEACE'.

25 September - Manukorihi Intermediate school performed a play 'Werimu of Waitara' - a story based on the events of 17th March 1860 - When the land wars begun in Waitara and the sacking of Te Kohia Pa, near Waitara.

8 Sept - A wild lily in the grass at Tikorangi.

6 Sept - Flooding on Lower Dudley Road, Inglewood.

24 July - Piharau Werimu Cooking Piharau at Parihaka.

24 July - Cooking Piharau at Parihaka.

02 August  - Mia and Aaliyah in their grandfathers car, Inglewood.

27 May - Sunrise, Manganui. There is a Karakia - that refers to this as - E hi Ake ana te ata kura - a splendid red sunrise where it appears that the first light of the day is parting the land.

12 May 2010 - Anton at Tikorangi - he shares an interest in Amy Maud Bock.

11 May 2010  - Ronan and Sandra at Tikorangi.

4 May 2010 - Viktoria with the Cows at Inglewood.

30 04 2010  The Tractor Dismantlers Yard in Stratford – I bought 2 large tyres for the farm tractor. I have spent many hours in farm sheds amongst farm equipment. This yard felt like a tribute to Don Driver.

24 04 10 Ian Wickham using the MaxiForst wood splitter. I came across this wood splitter and was totally delighted to find that it was made locally in New Plymouth and patented by Ian Wickham from Inglewood in the 1980's.

23 04 10 Felipe at Tikorangi

15 April 2010 Allen during his visit, Tikorangi

28 October 1983 I visited and photographed Ross Michie house and work. he was well known for his extraordinary Concrete embellishment of his house in Kaitaia. I re visited the house on 31 03 2010 - it has changed a lot but the essence that Ross created still exists. The Tino Rangatiratangi flag is flying.

03 04 2010 A complete Dinner set of 8 - Temuka ware at Haruru Falls

31 03 10 Hair Salon Shop window Kaitaia

31 03 10 Bookshop Kaitaia

31 03 10 signage for the Kaitaia Peoples Centre.

Kaikohe 02 04 10.

Pahia 28 03 10

Whangarei 27 03 10.

Marsden point 27 03 10

Having come from the 70s generation of the protest movement and 'Think Big' in Taranaki and with the recent protest at Waihopai I have started a new Project with a working title  - Search & Surveillance. Here are some of the images above.

30th March 2010 at Te Waimate Mission Station House, Northland.  These portraits of the Bedggoods and the Kings are signed by Alfred Bock,  Amy Maud Bocks father. It felt like serendipity to find these Bock images of the Kings are one of the first five missionary settler couples to come to NZ in 1814.

29 March 2010  2 signs at Rewis village Kerikeri.

29 March 2010  at the Kerikeri Opportunity shop - the sign reads - ˜Our prices are Firm “ the Management is not emotionally equipped to haggle.

24 03 2010. - Nadine at Tikorangi.

March 2010. Friends of the Duxfeilds contacted me to reprint work from 1983. Here are 2 images from the series. The garden and roadside sculptures were made by Eunice Duxfield. Both the Duxfield seniors have since died and the sculptures dismantled. The sculptures were on the State Highway to Ohura.

20th March 2010. Ngawhakaheke Wetere (Aunty Tuti) with Matarena Rau-Kupa (Aunty Marj) at the celebration of Matarenas 97th birthday and Hinehuias birthday, at Onearo, North Taranaki.

4 March 2010  at the first run weaner sale and last years sale also in March.

19^th March The 10 opossums I recently caught under my avocado trees at Tikorangi. I have to believe that if everybody took responsibilty and caught the opossums that live in their area, then we could easily minimalise the national opossum problem and the threat they pose to our native flora and fauna.

19^th March  Tikorangi. The old Tikorangi Dairy Factory managers house was moved to a new location down the road. When I first moved to Tikorangi. George and Mavis lived in this house. Mavis was a keen knitter.

This is a copy of an old map of the Pekapeka Block - Waitara and Te Kohia.

17th March 2010 12.50 pm at Owae Marae, Waitara. The signing of an agreement to the Terms of Negotiations for a Treaty of Waitangi settlement with Te Atiawa took place.

17th March 2010 At Pukeariki Landing during the opening of the exhibtion War.  Whilst John Key was inside making his speeches these young people were outside seemingly dispossessed.

17th March 2010 Prime Minister John Key at the opening of the exhibition at Pukeariki, New Plymouth WAR - Te Ahi Ka Roa, Te Ahi Katoro - Taranaki War 1860 2010. Our Legacy Our Challenge.

17th March 2010 7.29 am - First light on Waitara Town the morning of the 150^th anniversary of war erupting in Taranaki. War raged across Taranaki for 21 years, and its legacy lives on today. The first shots were fired at Te Kohia Pa near Waitara, 17 March 1860. Te Kohia is in the far central background of this image. It was the events at Waitara that the following saying was coined and remains with Taranaki whanui today - " Ko Waitara, Ko Waitara, Ko te ra tenei I mate ai te whenua, I mate ai te Tangata - Waitara, Waitara, the day, the land and the people were destroyed".

15^th March 2010  Emillien, with Dudley a stray cat at Inglewood.

12^th March 2010 WOMAD, New Plymouth. On Friday evening during the opening performances it rained briefly and then the light provided a rainbow to start WOMAD 2010.

4th March 2010 . The Percy Thompson Gallery in Stratford invited Tertius to display his work at the exhibtion 'Dramatic Art'. This was Shakespearean themed with Elizabethan Costumes and Opera on show. These are Tertius 10 drawings on rice paper that were shown on the gallery wall. Also here are two of the 4 drawings that were not shown publically due to the visual content being deemed as unsuitable for younger viewers. The nakedness of Phebe was not considered to be similarly inappropriate. The drawings as a complete set of 14 were very beautiful and reflected a vital element of Shakespeare.

13^th February 2010- Inglewood Twisty Faces calf # 33. The calf died suddenly. It was Black Leg a virus in the soil that is fatal to cattle.

11^th February 2010- Tikorangi - I re-built and upgraded my kitchen in the old factory managers office area.

9^th January 2010 at Parihaka Peace Festival . Each night this neon display shone above the camp site  it tells of the story of the village dog peeing on the British cannon wick aimed at the village, causing the cannon to misfire and saving the people of Parihaka in 1881.

9^th January 2010.  At Parihaka Peace Festival  Saturday night performers area next to the main stage.

8^th January 2010 At Parihaka Peace Festival. Belle Bailey and Marama Sionetama - Kai Karanga with Ans Westra.

13th December 2009 and 30th March 2010. In December last year I found a mummified rat in one of my storage areas. When I visited Pompallier House in Russell, 30th March I found this mummified rat in their collection of treasures too.

7^th December - 2009 Ina and her daughter Dell, at Tutis Christmas party, Waitara. I work with Ina and Dell as part of the local CORSO collective.

19th June 2009 - a car burning on the roadside at Tikorangi.

1 December Here are the other Full-Time Waitara Te Reo students and tutor at our last class for 2009. Rawiri, Taihuri - tutor, Rata, Mawhaturea, and Jo. This course was with WITT  Te Kura Matatini o Taranaki. I passed Wetereo 1.

24 November 09  Recently the mornings at Inglewood have been misty until 10 am. The vegetation on sides of the road has glowed with the dew.

21 November 09. Dawn at the Taranaki Green Dollars 20th year celebration. Also known as LETS it is a local trade and exchange system. I was part of the original group that established the Taranaki network.
The celebrations cake.

21 November 09 Arthur, Imile and Dean at Tikorangi.

16 November 09  for sometime I have been watching 2 birds at the back of the Inglewood farm. They are Pied Stilts - Poaka. Himantopus Leucocephalus.

18 October and 8 November 09. Folk seem to still adopt the name Egmont locally  the name given to Mount Taranaki by Captain Cook in the 1770s. Here are 2 recent images. The car number plate is 18 October in New Plymouth and I found the bottle with an Egmont label on, under the barberry hedge at Inglewood on 8 November.

8 November-09  With this big digger I spent the weekend taking out the barberry hedge line ready to put new boundary fences up at Inglewood.

8 November 09 at 7.47 pm. A still image downloaded from the Taranaki vista web site a beautiful Taranaki dusk.

7 November 09 at 6.08am. A still image downloaded from the Taranaki vista web site a beautiful Taranaki dawn.

3 November 09. I took 12 opossums to sell for the fur at the Inglewood opossum factory. Here is the days collection on the factory floor. The light in the factory is an airy blue colour.

1 November 09 Cath and her father at Bell Block.

30 October 09 Chevette has established her first garden. She gave me this very beautiful bok choy. It tasted really good.

20 October 09 in Waitara outside the Chemist is this fire hydrant with this very nice fern growing in the glassed box.

2nd October 09 This sign is an industrial area of New Plymouth where I go to a building supply store. I am yet to sample the pancake seconds.

27 September 09 Here is Cath posing with the Te Kuiti shearer.