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Aoraki's eco-building course has given Hastings designer the edge
Why build a wall to act as a windbreak when you can use natural contours of the land to achieve the same effect?
Why erect concrete barriers to sunlight when shade can be achieved by planting deciduous trees which maximise shade in the summer and let light through in the darker winter months?
Why use a non-renewable resource like concrete anyway, when more natural and eco-friendly materials are available?
Expect to hear questions like these if you engage Hawkes Bay’s newest landscape architect Willie Murphy to design your new property or add value to your rural address.
Scoop 13/07/2010
Award-winning Photographer Shoots Wild-life
By Charley Mann He gets pecked by seagulls and drenched by the rain, but for Timaru photographer Ron Lindsay, the long hours spent in the elements are paying off.
Lindsay has, for the third year running, been named a semifinalist in the wildlife photographer of the year competition.
Now in its 46th year the competition, which attracted around 42,000 entrants, is a combined project between the BBC Wildlife magazine and the Natural History Museum in London.
Despite his repeated success, Lindsay describes himself as an “accidental photographer”.
Following six years as a youth worker he brought a camera to photograph his holiday in Europe.
Upon his return he set up a studio in Timaru and worked for five years as a wedding and portrait photographer, before spending 15 years at the Timaru Herald as a photojournalist.
He currently teaches photography at Aoraki Polytechnic, a role he has held for almost four years.
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