Better Late than Gone Forever....

Okay so by the time anybody sees this Carmi will probably have posted a new theme 

and no one will in fact see this...

But anyway, here are my "Somewhat worse for wear" shots for Thematic Photographic 219. ( My only excuse is, we move house next Saturday. And Mr A is sick. And school is frenetic...)

There used to be a goldmine pumphouse here:

and there used to be a bridge here....

There used to be mine shafts here...

and there used to be a house up there, before the Christchurch earthquakes...

and there used to be a family here...

Best of 2011 #2

Although it's over-exposed, I loved this shot. 

It's a larger-than-lifesize carving of a Māori warrior beside a walkway around the pit rim 

of the open-cast goldmine in the small town of Waihi, New Zealand.

(posted for Thematic Photographic)