Spring is here, although some days you have to wonder with the rampant weather that cruises past.
It felt like spring this weekend though, with a beautiful couple, a great looking bridal party, bright spring colours and some sunshine, we had all the elements of a very super spring day.
Thanks for sharing the fun guys and there sure was much fun to be had.
Concorde – the great gas guzzling aeronautical icon that could cruise at 1300 mph, the body stretched up to 25cm in flight as it flew at an altitude of up to 18,000m. Pretty impressive for a piece of gear first made in the late 60s.
The French-Brit (Aérospatiale-BAC) partnership only made 20 and after its one crash in July 2000, world economic climate and other determining factors Concorde flew for the last time in Oct 2003.
I worked in Gloucestershire on a huge potato farm in the 80s and we were under the London to New York flight path of Concorde. The noise of the mighty aircraft climbing into space over the UK was sensational, only outdone in impressiveness by low flying jet fighters when I was working in Scotland.
So the point of this writing? I recently found some images I shot of the Concorde on one of it’s visits to Christchurch in the late 80s. Still in it’s heyday then, it was exciting times. I would have loved a ride but normal fare London to New York was $9,906 US. – Gulp!
wonder who that good looking couple are?
Kodak Gold 100 on God knows what camera.
Our friend Helen organised the trip, there was to be around 14 keen photographers and we were going to Claverley, just down the coast from Kaikoura. Turned out there was 4 of us and we headed off Friday night and cruised south, over the Hundalees and out to the coast and Claverley.
We found our accommodation then organised our gear and made a few images in the last of the light with some nice Nor West cloud scattered across the sky.
Some dinner, a wine or two (for some of us) and a yarn then we were off to bed ready for an early get up Saturday morning.
Saturday morning it seemed like the middle of the night when we got up, with no network my cell phone said 12.15AM and I was thinking I had been tricked into an early rise. The sky soon lightened and we headed out to the beach to capture the sun rising through the clouds.
It’s an interesting place, there’s the big wild Pacific ocean, the main trunk railway skirts the beach and trains trundle past frequently, there are fences and buildings from another age, trees and interesting rock formations.
Recommended for a photo shoot expedition, thanks Helen.
The slide show is what I saw, in my usual random fashion.
