John Manners

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A photo of Sam Neil, a great film actor from New Zealand
Top five pieces in ABC classical music competition. Beethoven’s 9th symphony wins, his Emporer piano concerto second, Holst The Planets third, Vaughan Williams Lark Ascdnding fourth and Handel Messiah fifth
Twisted design on columns with a gothic ceiling and moorish influenced portals at the Valencia silk exchange
Multi-coloured light show projected onto the highly decorated ceiling of St Nicholas church
A coastal vista showing the Cadiz cathedral next to the ocean
Two cruise ships berthed in Cadiz port
A cartoon showing an old Spanish couple with suitcases leaving an apartment as young tourists in shorts and T shirts arrive
Cut avocado with red finger limes sprinkled on top to provide a colour contrast and limey taste
Gold bust from the exhibition of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II
Dark bluey black plum like fruit forming in the tree canopy
Free diver with sperm whales
Door sign ‘Old Botany’ on entrance to an old Uni building in Christchurch
A white ferret climbing between two rock
Female acrobat steps down and is caught one handed by her male partner
An early 1900 picture of Ridley and a worker standing by a rubber tree stem that has a herringbone cut in it to tap rubber
A large (~3 metre)python with carpet like markings resting in the sun on a garden box. It has a large fat lump suggesting a recent meal
Interior of the moorish Mezquita in Cordoba with its colourful archways , it is so big it also contains an interior Cathedral built from bricks and stones after the moors were evicted. It is cool inside all year round
Green landscape with Wollombin (Mt Warning) in the distance - this is the central volcanic plug of the ancient caldera of this region
A colour coded bar chart of temperatures of ocean and atmosphere at various depths and heights. Ocean and troposphere getting redder (warmer) over time, upper stratosphere bluer and cooling
Photo shows a large still ripening jackfruit attached to the stem of the tree - it’s long, green and gnarly -
Diagram of a workflow for Chickpea flour innovation
Graph showing trends in world energy sources, fossil fuels still the highest at ~60% but now in slow decline, renewable energy rising to 30% and nuclear in decline to <10%
Beach with a massive storm cloud developing over the coast
An albatross in flight over the sea following a boat on Stewart Island New Zealand, a rocky coastline is in the background
Red dragon fruit cut in half revealing the bright red flesh with small black seeds
Graph showing ancient carbon dioxide levels in gas bubbles of Antarctic ice cores - present day atmosphere is the higher than anything measured in cores
Graph showing relentless increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at Cape Grim
Black cat on a chair
Old stone building door with Old Botany carved above the door
Graph shows dramatic increase in recent temperatures compared to the 1961 to 1990 average
Picture of Alison Bentley in a denim shirt standing in front of some mature wheat plants in a glasshouse
Dark green upper side and white papery underside of leaves are shown, written on the leaf is ‘a letter on a leaf, not a message in a bottle’
Liking out from Deep Bay we can see distant islands between two headlands
Jack Bobo speaking on stage
Two Aboriginal women dressed in traditional animal skin cloaks on stage singing with a spectacular lighted flower background
A time series of the large flower of the corpse flower opening and getting roper
Picture shows a small, about one more high, Wollemi pine growing in a garden surrounded by lawns with trees and a glimpse of a house in the background
Pic shows a large white flower with a yellow centre growing from a dragon fruit cactus. There is a tiny bee in the stamens in the middle of the flower
Man standing in the bush holding a single very large green broad leaf that is about 2 metres long and 1.5 metres wide
Figs on a tree branch, one red and ripe others green
Green limes in a clump surrounded by leaves in the tree
Picture shows a large bunch of green bananas up in a banana tree
The image shows a picture of seats with my name and three friends who have been affected by cancer in recent years
Video scans across a Vilnius street scene showing classic building and churches and people walking freely
Domed concrete structures in a forest
Pic shows a large tree planted next to smaller trees that have not grown as quickly