Shop display, Victoria Street, CBD, Cambridge, Waikato, New Zealand. December 2019.

Shop display, Victoria Street, CBD, Cambridge, Waikato, New Zealand. December 2019.
DAY | September 2018 | daily | ello
PROJECTS | kemureti | opuahau | whitehall
INSTAGRAM | @opuahau | @cambridgenzed
Cambridge, Waikato, 31 August 2018
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Update: Day galleries sometimes incomplete & / or roughly edited. So currently; August 2018 day galleries. This site contains roughly 3200 entries from the period 2005 – 2016 some 2200 of which are published, there is a generous collection of deadlinks / out of date info etc. etc. michaeljeans.blog & ello.co/michaeljeans share the same images (mostly). opuahau.nz is for my benefit but you are more than welcome to have a look. About me has some social links. My Cambridge Waikato project is at kemureti.nz and Facebook and under development at Instagram. 9.8.18
Whitehall Garden Circle 45th Anniversary 9.8.18
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Te Kō Utu Park Cambridge Domain Waikato New Zealand
On a mission of sorts. Half time. Have been cross posting during June. This will continue during July. Comparing the mechanics and usefulness of web platforms used, or ignored, over the past decade or so. ello.co far and away the easier and most elegant posting experience of all; vies with Behance as a digital creatives market space. Dropbox for file naming, transfer, storage & cloud backup. Facebook & Google+, Instagram and this; long overdue (18 months and counting), Google Keep for notes, composition & transfer between devices. opuahau.nz (fun & easy to maintain once you know the ropes) built on Adobe Portfolio; comes with Creative Cloud Photography plan. Pinterest (more soon) & Pocket (URL collecting), RocketSpark (Cambridge’s own), keywords (compiled in Google Sheets) and distributed, LinkedIn, Neighbourly (Leamington NZ & etc ..) Tumblr, Twitter, Zenfolio & Blurb, the list goes on ..
Roundabout at Cook, Pope & Victoria Bridge (Waikato River), Leamington, Waikato, New Zealand. 29 June 2018
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Burns Street Leamington Waikato New Zealand
day galleries (2008-present)
opuahau.nz (May 2018)
kemureti.nz (September 2016)
instagram (2012-2016)
this site: (2005-2016)
29 May 2018
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Images made over the past few weeks with the Samsung Galaxy S8. Edited on the phone with Lightroom CC; a tad paint by numbers but fun. Just a pity I can’t get Windows 10 to recognise the desktop version*. Much looking and cache clearing etc but no luck yet. As I am wont to comment whenever surveyed by Adobe ‘great tools just a pity having to navigate the gatekeepers and the ‘troubleshooting’ threads to solve a problem’. Others share the issue but no solution to be found as yet. I shall just wait. The Creative Cloud Photography plan apps have all been updated in recent days.
*update: late May Adobe support sorted this issue, thanks heaps!!
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ref: 2016-04-14-Thursday
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Some fun in naming our names BUT there is at least one missing .. can you figure out what name?
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Thirty names associated with Cambridge New Zealand. Mountains, hills, lakes, swamps, farming ‘districts’, our river and streams: the assignment is neighbours (yes, I know and I did do the WP stuff as well). The graphic I prepared earlier. Love these places and place names. I live in Leamington, was born in Cambridge, and grew up at Whitehall. And Taotaoroa is right next door to Hobbiton. Just saying. Rough guesstimate as to the population of the area described; 25,000.
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Today’s assignment: write and publish a “who I am and why I’m here” post on your blog.
A refresher for me – a pause to come to terms with the ‘new’ wp.COM editor – which I have pretty much avoided until now. I am a photographer. I have blogged for about 10 years and been here on the WordPress platform since 2008. A small gallery of photographs taken in the first 4 days of 2016.
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The postbox, recently rescued from removal, is old. The St Andrews Church lychgate is not, although it most certainly looks the part. Walking Cambridge Tours (i-Site Cambridge)
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Today I got to be a press photographer for a few of hours. Got to drive on the new expressway before it opened – on reflection I may have VIP’d when I should have press’d (different car parks). Listened to speeches celebrating the land & it’s people, the maunga standing around us, the engineering and construction and the work of individuals as is the way of these things. Minimal politics. At 3PM I joined the community day throng with Dad and bused over the Karapiro Gully viaduct to the southern interchange and returned to Hautapu for an amble around the pop up village there to feed, water, entertain, amuse & inform. Lots of people. And then a third visit for a bike ride to the Karapiro gully / stream viaduct and back to Victoria Road with the assistance of these folk. There are photos.
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An apt image, I think, for Cambridge New Zealand, this week, with the opening of our flash new ‘bypass’ a.k.a. more formally the Waikato Expressway Cambridge section.
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Waikato Expressway Cambridge section opens on Tuesday 15/12/15
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For travelers a spot along State Highway 1 that has been enjoyed, and recalled, for yonks – perhaps as long as there has been a SH1 and a large wooden church on this corner. When diverted through San Fransisco, years ago, I was off the plane first not wanting to miss my connecting flight to LA. Showing my passport I got ‘my wife and I travel to New Zealand regularly we love the white church on the corner in Cambridge‘. Cool. Perhaps it is the only image that springs to mind when others think of our place; Cambridge, the largest of the Waikato towns bar the city of Hamilton. And this the very same verge where family and friends gathered before celebrating my parents’ wedding in St Andrews Anglican Church 66 years ago. State Highway 1 no longer, from Tuesday, with the opening of the Cambridge section of the Waikato Expressway 2.4km to the north.
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The ‘watermark’ you now see on all my photographs has been a long time coming. 2015, a time of much photography but little publishing, has offered me a clearer understanding of what I’m actually doing by publishing my work. Photography, for me, is both craft and art (as well as income). I guess this seems pretty obvious. The craft; the discipline, has been hard won over time and produces some really cool stuff – even though I say so. The art, well, you can behold or not as is your choice. I enjoy being paid. Named for a photographer friend this watermark has a top, middle and a bottom version. One set for online generation, automatically, across my galleries and a Lightroom set generated on export for ‘loose’ proofs. Some special folk have played their part, knowingly or unknowingly, in both the design and thinking behind it. Thank you. Simply put my watermark addresses authorship & ownership, especially now within the cascade of images created daily, and is a clear statement of the value I place on my work.
Thanks to Kelly & Trefor et al. | Waikato Vintage Swapmeet Lake Karapiro Domain 15/11/15
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Click on the photo to take you to the 2015 Cambridge NZ Christmas Parade day gallery.
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A small gallery in and around the Avantidrome on Saturday morning 5/12/15.
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An actual pine cone nestled among the plastic. On the whole it all looks pretty good (even though I say so myself) and Dad likes it.
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Masonic Hotel (some would say TAB) corner of Duke and Commerce Streets Cambridge New Zealand. More here (below Santa).
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Santa photos are on sale at hotshotstogo.co.nz Hot Shots To Go 62 Duke Street Cambridge. Click the photo to see them all.
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Cycling New Zealand hosts a UCI Track Cycling World Cup meet this weekend at the Avantidrome Cambridge New Zealand. Much peddling!
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The Ranfurly Shield at the Avantidrome Cambridge New Zealand for the University of Waikato Blues Awards 2015 event October 2015
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click here or on photo | launched 28 May 2015
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If things appear a little disjointed here it is because I am toying with a change to the look of my website. Everything is still in the same place as it was. If you cannot find what you are looking for please email me. Edited 1900 hrs 11/5/15
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Friday evening 24 April 2015
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© Michael Jeans | +64 27 496 3802 | galleries | michael@michaeljeans.co.nz
© Michael Jeans | +64 27 496 3802 | galleries | michael@michaeljeans.co.nz
© Michael Jeans | +64 27 496 3802 | galleries | michael@michaeljeans.co.nz
Our man from the ANZ ICC Cricket World Cup TVC. There is I think an earlier Victoria Square Cambridge clip as well. Very brief! Update 29/03/15: spotted a Cambridge third clip?
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