This is the unauthorised photograph of the ship’s company on HMNS Canterbury following a two-week trip to the Sub-Antarctic Islands. I was trusted with taking the official photograph but perhaps Commander Bronwyn Heslop was not so confident about my skills as she snuck a selfie before the crew disbanded.
It was a privilege to ride along with the brave and skilled HeliOtago and the Doc Aoraki Mountain Rescue teams as they upskilled in the spectacular but inhospitable Aoraki / Mt Cook National Park.
Nestled in the protective feathers of a parent, this southern royal albatross chick pokes out into the weather on Campbell Island deep in the Southern Ocean. The merging of down and feather gives this photograph an abstract feel.
What is the official footwear of the Hindon community? Wilbur Mee, 2, of Hindon, was one of the cool crew who wore Red Bands to their hall fundraising hunting weigh-in.
Do not always believe what you see. This firefighter is not trapped under a car, he has squeezed through a window to make it safe before it is moved.
Most ducks landed gracefully on the frozen pond at the Dunedin Botanic Garden following the hardest frost of the year. However, luck was on my side as this mallard nose-planted while my camera was trained on it.
Rosie the cow was very placid as Lee Stream School pupil Huxley Mee, 5, confidently milked her with a squeamishly Arthur Street School pupil Tora Bowen, 7, watching. What Rosie probably knew was that the photographer, who was lying upside down on the clean straw, had not noticed what the straw had covered up!
