How to spice up the city’s first post-Covid action? A classic pan shot with an attentive portrait.
Livestock vet Victoria Chapman was delighted to have more than a dozen fantails roosting snugly together on a jasmine vine in her shed at East Taieri. She kindly let me come and photograph them which was quite a fiddle as they came in to roost only in...
It can be a mad scramble trying to photograph lambs, let alone quintuplets and their mother. Sue Rissman, on her Shag river lifestyle block, however, had it all under control. We hardly even needed the bottle of milk.
Trotters Gorge farmer Archie Kennedy entertained his neighbours during lockdown by posting daily pictures of himself working on the farm in the nude. Thanks for the tip, Ken Fergusson!
Who would have thought? A late September snowfall to sea level is newsworthy at any time but when Hayden Campbell headed down the beach for a surf he made my day.
One of the things I loved during lockdown was photographing ordinary daily life which had suddenly become newsworthy in extraordinary times. Walking through a shadow cast by the cliff across the road, the Hawker family become silhouettes against a nice...
While central Naseby under heavy snow was very pretty this drone photograph of the cemetery was my pic of the day. I know of one reader who was intrigued and refused to read the caption until she had worked out what she was looking at and another who...
Will Banford happily acted the ‘‘rat bag’’ after the grown-ups dressed up for the Oamaru Victorian Heritage celebrations.
I had just arrived at the 4WD rally at Pukerau, near Gore, when Sam Henderson rolled his Jeep in front of me. I could have headed straight back home again but opted to wait until after the barbecue lunch.
Otago Daily Times photographer Stephen Jaquiery shares his favourite photos of 2020.
