Mythology of Place - Homage to James K Baxter - © 1993-94 - Lloyd Godman - Lawrence Jones - down load free - PDF version

Photographs of James K Baxter's Brighton Coastal Otago World

Taiere River track

left detail - Homage to Baxter   Resonance XI - Taieri River near the Mouth 1994

One of three selenium toned silver gelatine prints - Lloyd Godman -

 

Taieri River near the Mouth

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Resonance XI

I had been waiting to get this shot for quite a few weeks as I knew that the light had to be bright and from exactly the right angle to reflect off the water in a way that I wanted. From other trips up the river I had calculated that the light would be coming in from the direction I wanted about 2:30pm. As I finished the climb up the hill side and rounded the bend to where there is a clear view across the scrub tops, it proved that my calculations were right and I had to wait as little as quarter of an hour to take the shot. On the left the river winds up to Henly and the Taieri Plain, while on the right it flows through the rocky gorge to the sea.The track leads off into the darkness of the hills.

James K Baxter - Poem references

At Taieri Mouth  1961  CP 230

... The steel-bright couldron
Of Taieri, the old water-dragon
Sliding out from a stone gullet
 

The Glass Lamp  1962  CP 255

I remember mainly how
The river bent like a bright saber
Out of the ....gorge.