Resonance XIV

This day the fog was either image-maker or breaker. We had driven out to Taiaroa Head and the thick bank of fog was threatening to engulf the whole scene as I raced up the slippery slope damp in morning dew to the top of the hill. From the road at the bottom I had seen the great clumps of lichen-encrusted rocks strewn across the tops and knew that while this would provide a focus in the foreground it would also offer a higher aerial view of the harbour. The fog drew through the neck and over the hills just enough to show in the photographs. From the left is the Peninsula down to Dunedin and Port Chalmers, across the harbour to the tidal flats and sand spits of Aramoana. The black lines of the various jetties and rock groynes strike across the water. In the foreground of the third photograph the road can be seen and below this is the gun pit and on the far right is Taiaroa Head.