Long-serving Dunedin firefighter John Bethune who is soon to retire. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
Slip sliding away . . . Curlers take part in a Bonspiel on the Idaburn Dam near Oturehua. Photo by Stephen Jaquiery.
Preparing for Otaru show . . . Otago Museum content services co-ordinator Eleanor Ross takes a closer look at a garment made partly from ribbonwood tree bark. Photo by Linda Robertson.
In the lap of the gods...DCC building control officer Mark McLay cheacks out the Dunedin Town Hall upper gallery. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
Showing their support . . . Steve (left) and Chris Rawson practise their cheering and horn-blowing in preparation for the North Otago's Ranfurly Shield challenge. Photo by Sally Rae.
Winter white . . . Trees in Arrowtown turned white after a light hoare frost. This picutre is looking towards the Arrowtown Golf Course and the Crown Range. Photo by Tracey Roxburgh.
Shona Bovey of Mosgiel , the co-ordinator of 'Operation Cover-Up', an organisation that provides knitted rugs and garments for Romanian orphanages. pictured in her Mosgiel home. Photo by Linda Robertson.
Stephen Pollock of Dunedin guides his Yamaha through the inkiness of Titri Park near Waihola as he competes in the first Mosgiel District Motorcycle Club's day/night two-hour enduro in about 18 years on Saturday. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
Sarah Jane Holtam, of Queenstown, at the suitcase race during Winter Festival Mountain Mayhem at Coronet Peak on Saturday. Photo by Joanne Caroll.
Otago SPCA veterinary nurse Lisa Gerard holds Petunia, a Kune kune/Captain Cook cross piglet that was found wandering in the student area. Photo by Gregor Richardson.
Photos are by Otago Daily Times photographers and prints are available online at Otago Images.