Stephen Jaquiery

A raised garden bed is the perfect way to tidy a garden,writes Stephen Jaquiery.

You don't need an expensive editing program to take creative night-time photographs. A manual setting on your digital camera and a decent tripod opens up a world of possibilities where you can experiment endlessly until you have an image you are happy with, writes Stephen Jaquiery.

Award-winning New Zealand photographer David Hallett has given up a 40-year newspaper career to concentrate on his passion, wildlife photography.

Diesel and petrol prices fell yesterday as the strengthening New Zealand dollar - near record highs against its US counterpart - remains as a price-rise buffer for motorists.

Plunket The Big Pram Jam boosted the coffers of Plunket branches in Cromwell, Alexandra and Wanaka this week.

Lighthouses by the very nature of their function were most often built at spectacular and wild locations.

It's isolated. Getting there can be an adventure, as it only opens its door to the outside world for a short period each day; and that's the way the cribbies like it.

A schoolboy with time on his hands in the library picked up a book by Barry Crump, followed by Philip Holden, and these writings spurred John Royle into a life as a hunter.

Andy Lyver is an enthusiast.

I have always been a fan of ''Big Al'' Lester's books; I find his writing style very Crumpish.

Hunter Steuart Laing, of Christchurch, has included something for everyone in this book.

Howard Egan (77) writes about his trophy-shooting highlights in New Zealand, Africa and North America.

A wide gamut of activity is explored in this volume by the New Zealand Deerstalkers' Association as it marks its 75th anniversary.

The whitebait were running and a debt was due, writes Stephen Jaquiery.

Wow, what an effort!

Southland aviation legend Bill Black has a fantastic story to tell, even if some of the telling is not so fantastic.

Ida Valley farmer Lochie Rutherford moves a sheep one sapping heave at a time, 1200m up Mt St Bathans yesterday. Trudging through the snow behind him is neighbour David Hutton.

Rob Willers was a late convert to surfing.

If Wild Behaviour, by photographer Trevor Penfold, has a familiar feel to southerners, it is because many of the species he has photographed are residents here.