lord of the rings

It may have been a while, but remember “Project New Zealand”?   (No?  If not, you can catch up on the story of why New Zealand is a project at the original blog entry.)  Back in October, I brought you a collection of restored NZ photos with a specific Lord of the Rings theme and promised part II at a later date.  Today is that later date.  Enjoy!

The view from Mount Sunday, a rocky hill in the South Island's Rangitata Valley used to portray Edoras in the Lord of the Rings movies

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If you’ve bee following this blog for a while, you might be familiar with what I’ve been calling “Project New Zealand.”  If you’re a newer visitor, the project is, in short, my ongoing work to restore pictures from my semester abroad two years ago, photos I took with the only camera I had at the time: a low-grade little point-and-shoot that didn’t do New Zealand justice by far.   Ever since I started the project, I’ve been intending to go just a little geek and have a “Lord of the Rings edition” of Project New Zealand, devoted to photos of New Zealand locations used in Peter Jackson’s trilogy.  And I finally got around to it.  There will certainly be a part II soon, so keep an eye out for it!

The North Island's Mount Ngauruhoe, a volcano in Tongariro National Park used as inspiration for Mount Doom

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