David started photographing when he was six years old, a graduate of the toy Diana camera.  This wonderful blend of light-leaking plastic and a truly dodgy lens is now, as it was then, a cult classic capable of producing beautiful images rendered not by perfection but by possibility.  He has worked as a professional photographer for what seems like two lifetimes, producing images for a wide variety of corporate clients, as well as continuously photographing on a more personal basis for publication and exhibition.

Bettina Anderson descended from a long line of colonial fossickers, goldminers and fisherfolk, it was hardly surprising that Bettina took a shine to the earth sciences in her days at Otago University.  As a child, the back seat of the family station wagon was always full of sand, rocks and shells ' far too precious to be left behind', with Mum and Dad joking that once she started studying geology, the tonnage collected went up dramatically.  Bettina's love of the land and what lies beneath has translated into a career spanning the science, education and museum sectors.  As she's aged, rather than growing up her interests have grown out to encompass a passion for 'old stuff', collective memories and the place these have in the telling of engaging stories.  She now works as a freelance science writer and 'exhibitionist' (exhibition developer) from a patch of Pohangina paradise just outside Palmerston North.  Her collaboration with David is the culmination of too much gazing out the window at Wharite Peak (when she should have been doing something more productive to feed and clothe the family).

Foreword | Page 6; Home | Page 7; Chapter 1 - In Between | Page 53; Chapter 2 - Signs of Life | Page 59; Chapter 3 - Above the Below | Page 111; Chapter 4 - Journey's End | Page 197; Image Index | Page 212; Endnotes | Page 218; Acknowledgements | Page 220; About the Authors | Page 221.