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30-JAN-2012 © 2012 John Lamb

As falls Mataura, so falls Mataura Falls.

Mataura

In it's upper reaches The Mataura is a fine fly-fishing river.
Here, in Mataura, it is constrained and polluted by a meat processing plant on one side and a now defunct paper-mill on the other.
Slowly the land & ground water is being poisoned by dairy farm run-off. Now the land is being sold to overseas buyers.
Kiwi's will end up as landless tennants buying their food from overseas supermarket conglomerates.

Nikon D700 ,Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/160s f/14.0 at 120.0mm iso400 hide exif
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Date/Time30-Jan-2012 08:26:25
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ModelNIKON D700
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Focal Length120 mm
Exposure Time1/160 sec
Aperturef/14
ISO Equivalent400
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Metering Modematrix (5)
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Exposure Programaperture priority (3)
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Guest 27-Nov-2012 05:12
out of this world look. And, I know the feeling, most of everything here is owned by strangers. V
lou_rozensteins06-Feb-2012 01:45
So sad to hear all of this!! My father was a keen fly fisherman ..... and I was often left on the banks of NZ's beautiful rivers to contemplate!!
Nevertheless a good documentary shot of the consequences of industry.
globalgadabout05-Feb-2012 22:02
great glow from the fabulous light, and great energy from the roiling waters...it sounds a tragedy though how the river is being degraded...humans are so inventive, yet inevitably foul their nest..
kenindfw05-Feb-2012 21:00
Nice capture. I like the processing. Lighting off the falls looks great.
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