Walking for Me

For decades walking has been the foundation of my fitness "regime", and an essential component of my mental health and processing. I mostly walk alone and often with a camera strap slung across my shoulder.

My thoughts are clearer when I'm walking and while I've also swum and cycled for fitness, I find that walking is something that takes very little motivation to enact. Walking with a camera, adds a level of awareness to my surroundings, I deliberately look for light and contrast in whatever environment I'm moving through. 

When we [my husband and I] left our long-term home in Tasmania and moved back to New Zealand, my normal walking and photographic practices were massively disrupted. Partially this was because I took on a fulltime job that didn't allow for either. And we moved to doesn't have the variety of track in roads close to home that I'd become used to- it took me some months really process the depth of disruption, and how closely linked this was to my photographic practice.

So now with some new developments in our New Zealand situation and some self awareness I'm consciously developing my walking photography practices. My two main purposes are fitness: to be able to walk further and into more of the topography of the country. And refocus my photography, not into a specific project yet but to open myself the place and what stories it might present me with.

So I'm returning to blogging, I could do this on Instagram or some other platform but, I don't want to over saturate my feeds with images and word, and this is a form that I'm familiar with, it also allows for larger images and I can experiment with building groups of images that support at thought, concept or experience I've encountered during my walks.
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Granity-Ngakawau-Hector
We recently purchased a house in this area, while we're primarily based in Harihari, South Westland we now have a place on the Buller Coast, it's conveniently located for Nathan work and for a multitude of Walks, on the beach and in the surrounding environments.​