Seekers of gold

I've been fiddling with the manuscript of Ghost South Road, the book that will bring together my texts and the images of Paul Janman and Ian Powell. Here are a few of the photographs that are floating from file to file and chapter to chapter.

Pilgrims on Ghost South Road. They asked for directions, unfolded a map the size of a blanket. Coromandel peninsula was a wagging finger.

 'Seekers of gold dig up much earth and find little' Heraclitus wrote. Ian Powell took this photograph at Wiri.

His punctilious insects are gnawing at our lives. The timekeeper of Ohaupo.

Marinetti's attack craft has been rusting ever since he crash landed it at Ardmore.

Modelling Martyn's Farm, on the Ghost South Road: July the seventeenth, 1863. The ambush was laid out like a picnic blanket.

Petroglyphs under the Puniu River bridge recall the years  1958 and '73, when the river rose in flood and became a border again.

Putaruru Hotel was built in 1953, for the royal tour. The queen never stopped.