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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷

@paullecomtephoto.nz

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Caffeinated Hypermediated Photographer. Sad devotion to Nikon, typefaces, Everton, Canucks, UK indie & NZ roots music. Results may vary depending on caffeine & alcohol intake. Toitū Te Tiriti. 323ppm https://paullecomtephoto.nz

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · Jun 24

If you're in the area (Arrowtown / Queenstown) you should come & see our @winterstellar.bsky.social exhibition, it's out best ever & we are very proud of it. I have 3 pieces in the exhibition & every image is beautifully printed.

(you can buy them too rangitako.com/shop/p/speed...)

Poster advertising our 2025 astrophotography exhibition

The Milky Way above a harbour with a city in the background

the Milky Way above Otago Peninsula with light trails from passing cars below

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 4h

Thank you kindly

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 4h

I spent nearly 2 hours exploring the Tawharekiri Lakes, Te Tai Poutini South Westland. This area is a series of old submerged sand dunes that are over 6000 years old.

Incredibly messy subject, but there's compositions if you work the scene.

#Nikon #GreatNZRoadie

an incredibly complex landscape of wetlands & NZ native bush

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 4h

Can't argue

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 4h

Hey thanks so much. Sadly constrained by the hill just below me to the left - one day a drone will be mine!

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 4h

Thank you

Henri Matisse’s “The Green Pumpkin” (1916)

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 8h

I'm on my 3rd vote - didn't even need to fire up the VPN

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 9h

Oh yay!

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 9h

Anyone seen where I've put my Brian Turner collection of poetry, there's a perfect one to go with this.

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 12h

Spring NorWester foehn winds above the vineyards of Mata-au (Clutha River) valley near Mount Pisa / Cromwell producing towering lenticular clouds. The view looking towards Bendigo & Dunstan Mountains with St Bathans range covered in snow.

Central Otago NZ

A vineyard & lenticular clouds with distant mountains

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 9h

Thank you kindly - was going to find a Brian Turner poem to go with this, but can't find my book

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 9h

He was a war criminal first time in office, this ins't hard.

I’ve Had It Podcast @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social · 18h

It’s a simple yes or no question.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 9h

aside from humanity celebrating life?

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 9h

Literally the side of the road by the Bealey bluffs - the second I could pull over.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 9h

Kinda hairy legs, but legs dry faster than pants & then when the sun comes out I get too hot in longs.

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 9h

After 600+ abusive & quite horrid comments against Green MPs RNZ finally shut off comments.

Greens warn Gerry Brownlee over becoming 'fashion police' post on FB in which the most disgusting posts against Green MPs were made

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

Just bookmark that post & get back to me if/when interested.

I've emailed them the price for 1.2m x 1.8m (about the size of some of the prints I have on my wall).

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

Wow ChCh - Jamie Gough, what a total arse

jonathanmilne.bsky.social @jonathanmilne.bsky.social · 10h

Exclusive @newsroom.co.nz Local Elections Survey reveals who NZ elected, city by city, district by district – and what the 422 respondents stand for. Click on your council and councillors to find out how they'll vote on the big issues. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/n...

Newsroom Local Elections Survey 2025

Exclusive survey reveals who NZ elected, who our communities elected – and what they stand for. By Jonathan Milne and Marc Daalder

newsroom.co.nz

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

NZ political data geeks - bookmark this!

jonathanmilne.bsky.social @jonathanmilne.bsky.social · 10h

Newsroom Local Elections Survey 2025

Exclusive survey reveals who NZ elected, who our communities elected – and what they stand for. By Jonathan Milne and Marc Daalder

newsroom.co.nz

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

Absolutely brilliant - hat off to you all!

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

Actually they can print anything up to 120cm tall by however long you like on their wonderful large format printer.

(they also do Canvas but I tend not to encourage that, but who am I to tell folk what they can put on their walls, lol).

I'm going to print one out for myself I'm so happy with it

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

Sounding more & more likely, & no no-one will notice 😂

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

Oh it'll be totally hilarious if he gets the job.

Hanging around outside Ginny's office looking for pointers of how to run govt again?

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

I use an external printer for that! I'll contact them for a price (I haven't used them in a while, hoping costs haven't gone up).

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10h

Wow the racists & misogynists are really emboldened on FB NZ news media sites aren't they.

Any time a Green MP is mentioned the boomers come out from behind Windows98 keyboards

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