This post got delayed. I received a good but distracting email when I returned home from this walk, and I only just remembered to post some images and thoughts here.

Charming Creek walkway offers a lot of mental and visual stimulation; the path is primarily the bed of a mining and milling tramline. Charming Creek is noticeably mineralised by leaching from old mine workings. 
The orange-tinted waters meet the Ngakawau River in a stunning gorge near the Mangatini Falls; sadly, more historic mine runoff enters the waterway via the falls and other streams that drain the Stockton Plateau.

In contrast to the waterways, the forest along the walkway seems to be healthy and recovering from the historic forestry activity of the area. The various southern beech tree species were vibrant in the spring sunshine. This is a walk I look forward to revisiting.

Spring is always rough on the West Coast; the seasonal change from cool to warmer weather brings new growth but also wild weather. Big storms and swells, a reminder of the Earth's rotation and continual change as atmospheric pressure zones swirl across the oceans.

Until recently I've been habitually editing my double exposure images as black and white, my preference for many reasons, such as: consistency across a collection, an aesthetic preference, a sense of drama. However, I'm aware that my love of the black and white image is not universal and that colour edits may offer some viewers more context and engagement with these works. So for a while I'm going to present some colour edits and work on consistency within a colour collection. 

While revisiting a much loved place in Tasmania recently (September 2025), I made several double exposure compositions of this ancient quartzite outcrop. 

The south side of the Wanganui River is one of my favourite local walks. In September, the annual white baiting season starts, and the river is decorated with structures to fish off and people trying to catch the tiny native juvenile fish heading upriver.   

Trees as viewed from walks along the roadways of South Westland.

Denniston Plateau a former (and maybe furture) mining area in the highlands north of Westport in New Zealand. Signs of human modification of the land is everywhere, but resistance to a new era of open cast coal mining has been in the news recently. This was a hard place to live and work back in the early days and the mining was substantially all underground. The new proposition will change the shape of the land substanially. 

Post flu walk, slightly over extended. Epic Buller coast, must revisit. Too much to process-mentally.