Beautiful Dave you should get a job with the NZ Tourism Board.
Every time I see your pictures it makes me wish I could get the time off work to go there for a holiday. Dave On 3/21/06, David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was uploading another batch of photos and decided on a whim to make > this one (which I uploaded last week) a PAW. > > http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo/printsdb/view.php?p=322&t=1 > > This photo seems to be very dependent on the monitor and viewing > conditions. The foreground is meant to be reasonably dark. > > I may as well show the accompanying view north towards Lyttelton > Harbour, the shipping port of Christchurch city which they > conveniently put on the other side of the hills. I remember reading > somewhere that the settlers considered building the city around this > harbour, but somebody sensible decided that building on the plain > would be a better idea. > > http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo/printsdb/view.php?p=321 > > Lyttelton is actually a flooded volcano which is supposedly > extinct... there's a good overhead view of the peninsula here which > shows what's left of both the Lyttelton and Akaroa volcanoes. > http://www.geographicguide.net/oceania/newzealand-image.htm > (scroll down and right) > > Cheers, > > - Dave > >
