The object of this Video is to apply the 10 tips to this project to improve the results of any Landscape Photographic project The 10 tips are best summed up as follows
1. Prepare
2. Position the subject in the Landscape
3. Lighting and Time of Day, Seasons?
4 Check out options for foreground interest
5 Look closer, smaller photograph options
6 Just add Water
7 Document scale
8 Add Colour
9 Tell the story
10 Expose the scene correctly
Part of working through this project is telling the story.
Okatia created Te Apiti In: Stories, Taniwha Added: November 15, 2015
Te Apiti, which can be translated as the cleft, pass or gorge, is the Maori name for the Manawatü Gorge. Here is the story of how it was created. Okatia was a supernatural being who lived on the Puketoi ranges in a gigantic totara tree. Over time Okatia became restless and so decided to explore new places so that he could find another home. Using his magical powers Okatia uprooted his totara to place it on its side to begin the journey. He started out in a north west direction making good time but whenever he moved a channel that was both deep and wide was left behind. Then one day a massive barrier suddenly appeared before him, it was a mountain range that rose upwards towards the sky. As the mountain slowed his progress he decided to force his way straight through. So he split the wall of earth and rock in two by ramming into it. Feeling content with his efforts he again continued on westward until reaching the ocean. This is how the Tararua and Ruahine Mountain ranges became separated and also how the Manawatu River was created. In memory of the event Te Aurere a Tonga (the flowing current of the South) was given to describe that part of the river in the gorge. In the middle of the Manawatu gorge lies a large red rock. It is called Te Ahu a Turanga and is considered very tapu. Anyone travelling along the river by canoe always said karakia when they passed this, the guardian of the Manawatü Gorge. It is said that even in the worst floods Te Ahu a Turanga remains uncovered by water.
Over the last few years Horizons Regional Council have been upgrading Palmerston North’s flood protection to deal with a 500-year flood of the Manawatu River. The City Reach project has involved major recontouring of stopbanks and rock lining of large sections of the river edge. Altogether the project will:
raise or build 9.2km of stopbanks
construct 1km of rock lining to prevent erosion
improve vegetation, walkways and public access to the river edge
Horizons group manager for operations Allan Cook engaged isthmus in 2007 to develop concept plans to integrate public amenity and improved river access with the major flood engineering works. Most of that work is now complete.
Adjacent to the Victoria Esplanade, at the SE gateway to the city, the concrete and timber Okatia Steps offer access to the water and have created a popular place to pause when walking or cycling along the extended river path.
Marking the spirit of safety guardianship and safety, the steps have been named after Okatia, a taniwha Rangitaane iwi believe guards the river. The mauri of Okatia flows down the river from the headwaters to the mouth and its influence can be observed in the changing nature of the river.
Just downstream is a concrete and steel look out that is cantelivered out over the river bank to offer views across to Massey University Campus. We designed a corten steel panel that hangs off the side wall, depicting the native longfin eel to symbolise the importance of protecting the water quality, a key objective of the Manawatu River Leaders’ Accord.
CHAPTER I. — THE LAND OF THE RANGITANE
Away upon the slopes of the Puketoi Ranges there grew in the days of old a giant Totara tree, into which the spirit of a God called Okatia suddenly entered, and endowed it with the power of motion, whereupon it gradually wormed its way over the land, gouging out a deep bed as it went, until it came to the mountain chain which separates the East from the West Coast. Then it clove a course for itself through this huge barrier, which the mighty Okatia split asunder as easily as a child would break a twig, and on passed the inspired tree, ploughing PAGE 3its irresistible way with many serpentine wanderings towards the sea, leaving the turbulent waters and still reaches of the Manawatu River flowing in its wake.
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