1. Waitaramoa Reserve

First photography outing took me to Waitaramoa Reserve in Shore Road, Auckland, NZ. It’s not the most attractive reserve as it consists mainly of mangrove swamp areas in a tidal inlet with large grass areas not used too much by the public. The mangrove swamp has it’s own characteristics such as mosquitoes, dragon flies and wriggling larvae in the almost still waters. And then there’s the soft squishy slushy smelly mud. The water areas that I photographed were not readily accessible so I had to scratch and scrape my way through the undergrowth to reach the water’s edge. Just 50 metres away the traffic zoomed up and down Shore Road, totally oblivious to my explorations and existence. Good thing I didn’t slip and fall in, no-one would have found me!