A New Zealand photographer who loves being in the outdoors, tramping (that's hiking to non Kiwis) to backcountry huts.

A cresting wave is breaking. The ocean looks cold.

The hops have been harvested, the ground is now covered with frost

Ice has formed on a tarn, or small lake in New Zealand. There are snow covered mountains in the distance.

A hop field in New Zealand, the posts and empty trainers are catching the light on a frosty morning

Winter freezes a small lake which is surrounded by native bush in New Zealand

A heavy frost has covered barbed wire in the morning. A seed head is also covered and offers a contrast between nature and man.

A heavy frost has covered a spider's web in frost along with the wire it is hanging from

Supplementary feeding of cows in the winter cold

A freshly baked chocolate cupcake is tempting.

The front side of a car is damaged after a collisions, its wiring is exposed

The driver and passenger's side airbags have deployed in a right hand drive car

A narcissus shows it can still be beautiful even though it is not perfect. One of it's petals have been bent forward

Heavy hail smears the car windshield as the window wiper fails to keep up with a storm. It's time to stop driving.

A down spout has come loose so the water it is meant to be catching is pouring out of the gutter

A new shoot has emerged from the soil and is stretching out to the light

Heavy rain is causing water to stream off a corrugated iron roof into the white spouting.

A plant has grown sidewards into the light, it can now start to grow properly and will get some colour in its stem.

The eclose of a monarch butterfly has occurred, it is now hanging off its empty chrysalis, drying its wings.

Rain water falls from a spouting into a well placed green plastic watering can, full and ready for when it is needed.

A down pipe has detached from the gutter it is meant to be draining, so the rain water is just flowing through the whole

Rain is falling onto some wooden decking making it very slippery

The growth of a new plant has started, it is an oxalis, its tiny fingers are stretching out.

Earth or soil is being dug using a shovel and energy, the garden is being dug or construction is starting

Flames are filling the crucible as silver is being melted down. Recycling of silver makes it sustainable

Flames burn brightly to melt unwanted silver down so it can be reused for casting.

A shovel is being used to extract soil from the garden or at a building project

Some string or twine has been loosely wound and put on a post in the garden waiting for its next job

A line of pink builder's string has been run to ensure a fence panel is straight. The concrete holding the fence ost is still wet.

A new black steel rail fence is being erected, a timber profile has been constructed to run the lines from to make sure it is straight and level

Wet concrete surrounds a blue steel tube which will be used for a removable black steel fence post

Melted silver is kept hot while it is transferred over to a mould to be cooled and reused.

Heat is applied to unused silver from a blow torch, it is going to be melted down and used again, ideal recycling.

Flames burn brightly as heat is applied to a crucible full of unwanted silver, it is going to be melted down and used for casting

An empty crucible surrounded by fire bricks. It is waiting for the next lot of silver to be melted down

A blow torch is used to apply heat to a crucible full of silver to be melted down

A fruit fly is swimming in red wine. It wasn't supported by the wine's meniscus and has partially sunk. (No fruit flies were harmed in this photo, it was removed straight afterwards)

A green bottle fly feeding on a yellow flower

If you look closely you will see that the green bottle fly that is feeding on a yellow flower is very beautiful

Looking down on a green bottle fly gives us a good view of its body parts.

This is a very busy bee, her pollen baskets on her legs are very full.

A monarch butterfly pupa is hanging off a swan plant leaf, its caterpillar is feeding on the swan plant leaf above it

Two stages of the monarch butterfly's life cycle, a caterpillar and a chrysalis.

A black and yellow monarch butterfly caterpillar is on the stem of a swan plant. The plant is surrounded by insect protection to prevent wasps predating the caterpillar. The plant passes on a toxic compound called cardenolides to the caterpillar.

The light catches the veins in this white butterfly's wings while it is feeding on a flower

The white butterfly's wings are slight open. This shows this butterfly is a male as he only has one spot on his wing.

A female white butterfly has her sings wide open while she is feeding on a purplbe flower.

The prominent veins of a white butterfly stand out due to the light. It is busy feeding.

The female white butterfly has two spots on her wing, the second can be seen faintly. She is busy feeding with her proboscis in a flower.

Flowers attract the white butterfly or cabbage white. One is sunlit, another is leaving the image - a ghost butterfly.

A white butterfly is just about to take off from a flower where she has been feeding. Her proboscis is still out and her wings are sunlit.

The two dark spots on this white butterfly's wings show that she is a female.

A purple flower is the feeding ground for this hungry white butterfly. It has its proboscis in the flower.

Behaviour seen in a female blackbird. She is sunning herself on a garden bench. She is very hot and is panting.

A beautiful clapping cicada had become an adult and is now calling for a mate.

An adult clapping cicada has emerged, it has very beautiful wings.

The stem of a wine glass in detail, the glass is full of red wine. The bottom of the glass appears to curve more than it does.

Red lipstick has been left on a wine glass, it is always difficult to get off

A dishwasher is going to have difficulty getting the red lipstick off the wine glass. Why does it stick better to the glass than your lips?

A white butterfly's wings are nearly closed as she is settled on a purple flower feeding.

Two red, ripe tomatoes are ready to be harvested and enjoyed.

Black veins contrast with the bright orange of a monarch butterfly's wings while she is sunning herself.

Mud sticks to the very large metal wheel of a large earth moving piece of machinery.

Sunlight plays on a pear hanging on a tree

A pad foot roller is covered in large metal lugs, these rollers are best suitable for compacting cohesive soils.

A sunlit white butterfly is feeding on a purple plant

Enjoying the sunshine a female blackbird sits panting on a wooden bench.

Fresh from the garden garlic bulbs are dying on a cloth. Their roots face the camera. There is still some dirt on their skin.

It's thought birds sun themselves to rid themselves of parasites. This female blackbird is sunning herself on a garden bench. She is very hot.

Freshly harvested garlic bulbs are drying. Their roots are still intact.

Drying before being stored for the winter, freshly harvested garlic bulbs sit on a cloth.

Garlic needs to dry before it is stored or it will not keep for the winter.

Garlic bulbs have been harvested and are drying. Some still have a bit of dirt on their skins.

A timber and corrugated iron building has fallen into disrepair. Its paint is peeling and it is starting to lose some boards.

Cracks radiate from a central impact point on a reinforced window.

Brush marks are showing on planks of wood that have been painted green, it almost looks like a green wash.

The sign for Raurimu stands on the grass verge. Raurimu is a small settlement in the North Island of New Zealand.

An old fashioned longdrop toilet or dirt closet in the out house. It has a roll of toilet paper ready for use.

Compost has been created and is now ready to be spread on the garden. A shovel and wheelbarrow will be used for the job.

The compost bin had done its job and broken down the compost. It is now ready to be put into the waiting wheelbarrow and spread around the garden.

Compost has been taken from a compost bin and put in a wheelbarrow ready to be spread around the garden.

A compost bin is open, it has rotted down the vegetation and is now ready to be used. A pitchfork is going to be used to fill the wheelbarrow.

A compost bin is open, the compost is going to be shoveled into the wheelbarrow. Other compost bins are still breaking down their contents.

Fence strainers are used on wire fences to keep the wire taught. The wire is stapled to the post

An empty purple wheelbarrow has a pitchfork in it, it is waiting to be filled with compost from some compost bins.

A man wearing a green hat, grey shirt and checked shorts holds a shovel ready to start shoveling compost from the compost bin into the waiting purple wheelbarrow.

A wheelbarrow is waiting to be filled with compost from the compost bin. A shovel is there to be used for the job.

The wet sand reflects the clouds above during a stormy evening on a West Coast beach in New Zealand.

A pattern on the sand looks like trees or dendrites.

A branch or stick is stuck in the wet sand at a beach

Sand patterns that look like dendrites are formed when the tide goes out at the beach.

Undulations have been left in the sand by the retreating tide.  Pools of sea water surround the humps and hollows.

A sandstone rock has broken, it has cracked towards one end.

A blade of green grass has water droplets of different sizes running a long it.

Water droplets hang onto a blade of grass.

Spherical water droplets have collected on a blade of grass after some rain.

A wooden panel door has had its door handle removed and is waiting to be sanded back before being rehung.

A door is being renovated, it has had its door handle removed during this process

A split rock has a large crack through it which makes it look like a crevasse

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Anne Webber

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