Taranaki in pictures
Posted 9 October 2009 // Helen Rickerby
An iconic image of Mt Taranaki (Mt Egmont)
Taranaki is the next region to get its very own Te Ara Places entry. We’re currently editing the text and pulling together images and other resources, and it will be launched in early December.
And you can contribute to it by adding your pictures of Taranaki to our Flickr group pool!
We’ll be including in the entry an exhibition of photographs of the region. To have your Taranaki snaps considered for the exhibition, add them to Te Ara’s Flickr group pool in the next couple of weeks, as we’ll be making our decisions soon. Some images that have already been contributed include New Plymouth’s foreshore, the Wind Wand and Mt Taranaki (Mt Egmont).
We’ve found these exhibitions to be a great way of including more wonderful images than we otherwise could. You can look at similar exhibitions for Otago, Hawke’s Bay, Southland and the West Coast.
Another cultural organisation that is using keen Flickr photographers to help record our country’s heritage is the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. They have started an NZHPT Images Project group on Flickr, and are inviting people to contribute their images of historic places in New Zealand.
They’re posting lists of specific places they want photos for, and their latest list includes many in the Taranaki region – perhaps you might have photos you could add to both their pool and ours!
