Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE :
Special Issue : Photographer of the Year Results;
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; LETTERS; VIEWFINDER [Bay of Plenty]; GeoNEWS [Cyanobacterial blooms, tweeting your mind, sniffer bees]; ARTEFACT [Dead letters]; GREAT WALKS [Mt Manaia Track]; WEATHER [Snowed in]; PROFILE [Marti Friedlander]; LIFE [Parthenogenesis]; BOOKS [Trees of New Zealand, A Simple Nullity]; HISTORY [The Queen’s Speech]; IN THE FIELD [Brett Phibbs]; PARTING SHOT [A spirit’s flight];
CONTENTS - Features :
TOP OF THE SOUTH [Bathed in more than its fair share of sunshine hours, New Zealand’s second city of Nelson has made a transition from crops to crafts]
PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR [Nearly 3000 entries were received for our annual photography competition. And the winners are ...]
PEGASUS RISING [Derided as a futile attempt at utopia and a seismic hazard, the master-planned town of Pegasus is winning converts, and escaped Canterbury’s earthquakes unscathed]