Saw this beautiful farm pond as we were returning from Fruitlands and heading to Roxburgh, in Central Otago, New Zealand. We both took photos. There was also a resident pair of Paradise Shelducks (I’ll share photos of them in another post). You can clearly see the female’s white head in the first photo, and the male is on the water nearby – he’s much darker. Photos taken Sunday afternoon, 16 August 2020.
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And the best image is… by Nigel. Multiple images he’s stitched together to create a panorama. The photos were taken with his Olympus Digital. Best viewed large
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Text by Liz, photos by Liz and Nigel; Exploring Colour (2020)
Exploring Colour 
Lovely! That big rock on the shore looks as if it was just meant for sitting on. 🙂
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We drove past another farm pond that looked much like an inifinity pool – way too beautiful to be a farm pond. I guess we’ll photo that one too some day!
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I agree that the panorama works well.
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No wonder you stopped for this one. Some really nice rock formations, and nice work on the panorama!
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Glad you enjoyed this Gary.. it’s such a perfectly lovely place! Central Otago of course is so special and offers us no end of wonders every time we pass through 🙂
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The panorama shot in particular really captured my attention (and, yes, I followed your recommendation, Liz, to click on it twice). What a peaceful, tranquil feeling in that landscape.
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Thank you, it’s a lovely area there.
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Such an attractive landscape. Great photos. Wouldn’t they make wonderful scenic paintings – or framed photos for the wall? You could gaze at them all day.
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Thank you Kay.. your response makes doing a post like this feel very worthwhile! I felt like I could have stood there drinking in the scene for hours 🙂
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