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Photograph of the bronze sheepdog statue at Lake Tekapo standing on its rock plinth in profile against a pale blue sky, the turquoise lake and distant snow ranges below.

The Collie

Lake Tekapo, New Zealand · August 2020

1D X Mark II, 24 millimetres, f 4, 1/125 of a second, ISO 640

Erected by the runholders, in honour of the dogs. Entirely reasonable.

The collie monument on the shore at Tekapo, put up in 1968 by the local runholders in recognition of the dogs, without which the high country simply could not have been farmed. Shot low and in profile against clean sky so the silhouette reads immediately, with the lake doing the colour underneath. A statue to working dogs is a very New Zealand thing to build.

Part of The Southern Alps, a series.