Caffeinated Hypermediated Photographer. Sad devotion to Nikon, typefaces, Everton, Canucks, UK indie & NZ roots music. Results may vary depending on caffeine & alcohol intake. ToitΕ« Te Tiriti. 323ppm
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It's happening again!
2027 Calendar pre-orders now open on my site!
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A selection of images inspired or enjoyed by the late @otagolad.bsky.social paying tribute to the biggest influence on my photography.
Delivery starts 1st week of December.
Ok it's finally happening.
My Calendar 2026 is now available for pre-order. Printing by end of the month to allow for international shipping.
(sorry no international orders just yet, still setting that up).
So happy I could cry.
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Fucking horrific unforgivable interview with SST on Checkpoint just now.
All that was missing was the producer statement & invoice from Taxpayers Union for free attack advertising against the NZ Greens.
Biased & misrepresenting all VICTIM first policy work by the Greens.
So my wife did a madness for my birthday today. Found a local leather smith in Port Chalmers to make my day sporran. The woman who made my Kilt (Mosgiel) made some flashes & gave me whitebait.
Central Otago Pinot from my cousinβs winery & West Coast whitebait. I go by McLeComte the Gentleman now
Many thanks to @liammcilvanney.bsky.social for the loan of his sporran to get a pattern made!
This was Northwind's first sporran & she knocked it out of the park
So my wife did a madness for my birthday today. Found a local leather smith in Port Chalmers to make my day sporran. The woman who made my Kilt (Mosgiel) made some flashes & gave me whitebait.
Central Otago Pinot from my cousinβs winery & West Coast whitebait. I go by McLeComte the Gentleman now
20th trip to ChCh this year to now clear out mum's house almost done & it's fair to say I'm shot. 30Β°C cleaning out dad's once proud garden, endless sorting out of their stuff.
Tell me it ends?
Back next week for heavens sake. Wish I had time to push my calendar instead.
Some of the strongest winds on SH1 Iβve ever driven in were around Rakaia.
Visibility on the bridge from the dirt being blown down the Rakaia river was about 80m - insane.
Due to inactive road works, thereβs currently ONE active passing lane on SH1 heading south between Timaru & Oamaru & are stuck behind a caravan & 2 dairy tankers.
I feel Simeon Brown might not be competent.
I mean WHAT were you thinking BC.
Looking around at the world & you nah screw it we'll elect a Conservative state govt & a Premier that isn't eligible.
Fuck me.
So when will ownership realise that every player they've been writing massive pay cheques to & shoving a silver spoon up their arse for the past decade, hoping to make a footballer - isn't working?
(not that I care, lol).
Michael Carrick is on even thinner ice at the helm of the footballing powerhouse after an embarrassing 3-0 loss leaves them 16th in the Premier League.
AND the dramatic COLLAPSE in support for the Reform Party.
This wasn't hard, while the Tories were being typical Thatcherites & destroying everything & then the people elected a Tory Kerr Starmer, of course disillusioned voters on the fringe were going to look for someone who noticed them.
All this talk of overhang govt & outcry from Labour could have been totally AVOIDED if successive govt had listened to the expert advisory panel & followed the recommendations of the representation review. It gave the mechanism to avoid the overhang & distortion of the results
It's their own fault
Investigative journalist Aaron Smale says the political posturing over photos with gangs is ignorant, hypocritical, and amounts to gangster chic for Instagram
Investigative journalist Aaron Smale says the political posturing over photos with gangs is ignorant, hypocritical, and amounts to gangster chic for Instagram
βPalantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states βAI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men.
We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,β he complained.β
CHECK. YOUR. ENROLLMENT DETAILS.
and your friends and family!
Hilariously, my dad has discovered he is on the mΔori roll somehow? He is not mΔori.
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All Hipkins should have said
Youβre distracting from the big issues all people in New Zealand have a story to tell and we are here to listen to all people
If pushed- he replies Key & Muldoon did it
Thatβs why heβs not a leader leaders can explain a complex issue simply and he couldnβt οΏΌ
Excited (and nervous) to be sharing BLACK SHEEPS with our first NZ audiences tonight!
Premiere screening, followed by actual paying customers for the opening of TERROR-FI Film Fest.
Weβre so proud of this bonkers film and canβt wait for people to see it! Opens NZ nationwide November 12.
Happy 43rd birthday to Soul Mining, an absolutely brilliant album, itβll forever be in my all time top ten. So hard to choose a favourite track, especially if you include Giant π
#nzpol
Simple explanation.
Power here primarily generated by water being pushed over dam making turbines turn. Dams & turbines were built by previous generations for us.
Sadly, in interim, price of gravity (required to push water over dam) has soared.
So cost must be passed on to consumers.
ππΎ.
it should be noted that Hipkins throwing his candidates and caucus under the bus is now 2 for 2 in what are likely to have been two of the most important elections in decades
βEvery MΔori politician in this country gets asked, sooner or later, to account for a relationship no PΔkehΔ politician is ever asked aboutββa question framed by those who βhave never had to explain their own cousins to a camera.β @mohanjdutt.bsky.socialculture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...
Given this thread below & this link (bsky.app/profile/styl...) it is really clear that Hipkins threw his candidate under the bus to appease his hypocrite critics, instead of backing his team & opening up dialogue about state care, inequality & societal structures that cause gangs.
Unforgiveable.
List of people criticising Greens/TPM for meeting Mongrel Mob members when they themselves have had meetings with Mongrel Mob members:
- Don Brash (formerly Act and National)
- Nicole McKee (Act)
- Willie Jackson (Labour)
#nzpol
List of people criticising Greens/TPM for meeting Mongrel Mob members when they themselves have had meetings with Mongrel Mob members:
- Don Brash (formerly Act and National)
- Nicole McKee (Act)
- Willie Jackson (Labour)
#nzpol
I feel so much sympathy and aroha for Kerrin. I canβt really form coherent thoughts. Family lives and histories are never clean. I wrote this almost 10 years ago, and it seems especially relevant today x thespinoff.co.nz/atea/12-11-2...thespinoff.co.nz/atea/12-11-2...
It's happening again!
2027 Calendar pre-orders now open on my site!
paullecomtephoto.nz
A selection of images inspired or enjoyed by the late @otagolad.bsky.social paying tribute to the biggest influence on my photography.
Delivery starts 1st week of December.
Ok it's finally happening.
My Calendar 2026 is now available for pre-order. Printing by end of the month to allow for international shipping.
(sorry no international orders just yet, still setting that up).
So happy I could cry.
paullecomtephoto.nz/products/202...
While I was obsessed with 'xpan' format or Aurora & astro photography Ferg was always in my ear 'it's ok to go 1x1 square format & shoot in the day', cheeky bugger. I did shoot in the day but it took me a long time to come around to 1x1 square compositions.
I did it Ferg, I went all in for this!