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.
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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. |