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Francis Vallance
I have been an avid photographer for about 30 years. My current job means that i am on the road for up to 12 hours a day and travel all over New Zealands South Island, Canterbury in particular. I see loads of things that people take for granted in their everyday travels. I hope you like them and when you travel around you are able to say "Ive seen that"
Quote by Minor White "When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them gracefully".
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- 2012
- 2013
- A.N.Z.A.C.
- Ashburton Gorge
- autumn Colours
- best
- Between the Passes
- Canterbury
- Canterbury (Rural)
- Castle Hill
- Christchurch
- country Churches
- Danseys Pass
- Destroyed 04sept10
- Destroyed in Feb 22 Earthquake
- Fiordland
- Five Forks
- Historic Milestones
- Inside the 4 aves
- Livingstone
- Maheno
- Masonic Lodges
- My Luckiest shots
- New Zealand
- NZ Dairies
- Oamaru area
- Otago
- Rolleston
- Snow
- Snowdon
- The Magic Hour
- The Midland Line
- Tokarahi
- underwater
- Wellington
- West Coast
- Whitstone
- Yesteryear Transport
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EXCELLENT PHOTO – … found … and VOTED - Good luck in the contest - Best regards from Athens – Christos
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Fields of Sunflowers appear around North Otago every year - each year different places are planted to reduce the risk of soil borne disease. Whenever paddocks near the main highways are selected, tourist vehicles in their dozens stop to take photos like this (or better)
No-one stops to take photos after the flower heads have matured and the seeds are ripe, because then they spray the plants with defoliant to make harvesting easy. I call them the killing fields.
All the seed (and were talking thousands of tons annually) is grown by and utilised by TopFlight Seeds
http://home.xtra.co.nz/hosts/oamaru/topflite/4wwcustomers.html
And it all goes into commercial budgie and bird seed mixes for pet birds. Before you crack up laughing, consider that the company is a large and respected one that has a long history in North Otago and which employs a lot of capital and many employees and owns huge tracts of land for their operation.
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Very nice photo. Congratulations Greetings from Adana Turkey like
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Very nice photo. Congratulations Greetings from Adana Turkey like
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Fine velvet-warm, long exp'ed shot! Nice! Like! Micky
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A very interesting place and excellent view like, best greetings from Manfred in Austria
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Yes, Francis.
I found yours photo when I was checking the area for more pics. Fortunately (?), there was no hoarfrost when I camped there. :)
Tom
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Thanks Tomas
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Beautiful photo!
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Excellent picture. Very nice light and colors. Like
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