Evaluating an image | What do I see? | How do I read it? | Research | Experimentation | Evaluation | Contextualization

After listening to our guest photographer’s Penina Momoeisea and Russ Flat. Evaluating an image? Taking photographs makes heaps more sense. Do what you enjoy? Photograph the unexpected and crazy? People in all sorts of situations. Formal, casual, prompted and the unexpected. Interact and communicate, give clear instructions remember this may not always work out. Preparation is essential for formal photographs do your homework and planning. Lighting, time of day, obstacles weather prepare.

Today was one of those days of the unexpected and great moments of finding treasured memories in Awhitu.

• run down buildings
• old
• structure holding the house below together
• ruff untidy
• natural light
• nature continues to grow

F5.6 1/160 ISO100 24-70mm@39mm

• open road
• natural light
• wind blow
• raining
• grey mystery ahead

F5.6 1/160 ISO100 24-70mm@38mm

F2.8 1/1000 ISO100 24-70mm@38mm

• surprise and amazed

• hidden with all the growth • aircraft colours blend in with the surroundings

• graffiti and writings

• broken window

• rusted • character

• rain and cold

• this aircraft once flew with pride and great strength

F6.3 1/200 ISO160 24-70mm@35mm

Research on the Mystery aircraft

Plane is at home among the plants

HOME NEEDED: The fuselage of the Bristol 170 Freighter sits on an Awhitu property. Russell Dixon

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A derelict plane gathering greenery on a south Auckland farm has been intriguing those who have stumbled across it for decades.

The fuselage of the Bristol 170 Freighter sits abandoned on Richard Hudson’s Awhitu property, across the Manukau Harbour from Auckland Airport.

Dwen Airmotive managing director Mark Dwen said his father Ronald Dwen purchased the plane, along with seven other Bristol Freighters, from the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) after they were put out of commission.

In 1978 the plane, originally registered to the Bristol Aeroplane Co as G-AINS, was flown from the air force base at Whenuapai to Ardmore Airport where Dwen’s business was based and reregistered as ZK-EPA.

Dwen said his father was involved in supplying parts and engines for Bristol Hercules Freighters around the world.

Some of the freighters went to Canada and were used in the Arctic Circle for gold mining and oil exploration operations.

Some went to the United Kingdom to be used to transport thoroughbreds around Europe, Dwen said.

Other Bristol freighters were used to transport bloodstock around New Zealand.

However, the plane that currently rested in south Auckland sat at Ardmore and was bought by Hudson from Dwen’s father in the late 1980s.

The aircraft was in the process of being scrapped when Hudson saw the plane being “chopped up” and decided to buy it.

Stephen Satherley posted a picture of the wingless freighter on his Flickr account late last year.

In 2012, photographer Russell Dixon also stumbled across the aging plane.

Dixon said it took him a long time to track down even a basic history of the plane.

The plane was understood to have been commissioned in 1947 and served with the RNZAF 41 Squadron until 1951.

The 41 Squadron was a transport unit that conducted transport flights in the South Pacific during World War II.

Bristol Freighters were also used by New Zealand cargo line Straits Air Freight Express that ran the New Zealand Railways Air service from Wellington to Blenheim before the introduction of the Cook Strait ferries.

Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) life member Les Downey said he managed to capture some images of New Zealand’s Bristol Freighters during his apprenticeship with Air New Zealand’s predecessor Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL).

While the plane that rests in Awhitu seems to have seen better days another Bristol Freighter still sits at Ardmore Airport.

Dwen said the plane had featured in movies and commercials, hosted birthday parties and been used for fire service training drills. But now it needed a new home as Dwen Airmotive’s lease at Ardmore was almost up. Ideally the plane would go to a good home in a museum or a private collection, he said.

Russell Dixon – Cinematographer & Photographer:

Under The Pier – Waiheke Island

Posted by Russ on 20/02/2015

Posted in: Landscape, Travel Photography. Tagged: Auckland, Dervish images, Landscape, Lee Filters, Long Exposure, New Zealand, Russ Dixon, Travel Photography, Waiheke Island

Canon 5DMK3, Canon 24-105 f4, Manfrotto Carbon Fiber Tripod, L Bracket, Remote Release, Lee Big Stopper Filter

60 second exposure at f10, ISO 100, 24mm

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