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  • The Dog Share Collective connects people with dogs
  • Rawiri: coffee, connection and kaitiaki
  • Archie: bikes to school
  • Ghost Fishing: cleaning up the rubbish in our waters
  • Where does your food come from? Mushrooms
  • Plogger cleans up the beach one run at a time
  • Tom, Scout and Fran: cycling for family fun
  • Wellington man's daily climate change protest
  • Anthonie Tonnon's Rail Land tour
  • Phototherapy
  • The Upper Hutt teen who is saving Kaimanawa horses
  • The orchestra changing NZ's classical music landscape
  • Project aims to normalise public breastfeeding
  • Wellington's Ghost Hunters
  • Headquarters: Orchestra Of Spheres
  • Marching to remember the 1915 Cooees
  • Home-grown Aussie emoji app
  • The Weed Lady of Geurie
  • Lincoln Brown protection clown
  • Lester: Prickly passion for cacti
  • A container full of Christmas
  • Photographing the heart of the opal
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ANA TOVEY
Visual Journalist / Producer
  • Video
  • The Dog Share Collective connects people with dogs
  • Rawiri: coffee, connection and kaitiaki
  • Archie: bikes to school
  • Ghost Fishing: cleaning up the rubbish in our waters
  • Where does your food come from? Mushrooms
  • Plogger cleans up the beach one run at a time
  • Tom, Scout and Fran: cycling for family fun
  • Wellington man's daily climate change protest
  • Anthonie Tonnon's Rail Land tour
  • Phototherapy
  • The Upper Hutt teen who is saving Kaimanawa horses
  • The orchestra changing NZ's classical music landscape
  • Project aims to normalise public breastfeeding
  • Wellington's Ghost Hunters
  • Headquarters: Orchestra Of Spheres
  • Marching to remember the 1915 Cooees
  • Home-grown Aussie emoji app
  • The Weed Lady of Geurie
  • Lincoln Brown protection clown
  • Lester: Prickly passion for cacti
  • A container full of Christmas
  • Photographing the heart of the opal
Audio Stories
Photography
About
Contact

Photographing the heart of the opal

Robert Smith is fascinated by the hidden patterns and complexity of opal that can only be revealed by high-magnification photography. He has devised his own system for creating intricate animations that take the viewer right into the heart of our national gemstone.

Opal photography/animation courtesy of Robert Smith.
Role: Producer, Director, Camera Editor
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