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If we can’t see the beauty within existence then how can we recognise it within ourselves? If we haven’t realised our own beauty then how can we inspire it in others? It's true that there is much wrong in the world but it is also true that there is much that is right and despite the efforts of man we are still surrounded by the extraordinary beauty of this existence. The more we nurture that beauty then the more we nurture our own soul and the souls of those around us.&nb …

I’m out of sorts today, somehow slightly out of tune, odd pains in my body, everything an effort. Like a car that has had a crash twisting its chassis but still driveable, it crabs along the road at a strange angle. This is how we go through life, we have this beautiful soul but we have somehow got out of synch, we crab along pursuing bodily desires, dragging along our list of grievances our chassis somehow twisted around the axis of our spiritual self never quite managing to stay in t …

The dawn is a special time of day for me. Of course, as a photographer, dawn and dusk are the magic times of day when the soft touch of the low lying sun brings colour to life but its more than that. When I watch the sun rise I feel some other level of awareness growing within me, an inner expansiveness as if the sun is somehow rising within me.   These photos of the sun rising over New Plymouth were taken from Paritutu on Easter Sunday. Paritutu rock is one of my favorite places …