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Original Oil Painting:
"Rain on the Butler" Wilderness Landscape.
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The Butler River on the West Coast is one of the many rivers that descend from the high Southern Alps range that runs the full length of the South Island and lies close to the western seacoast. These are great boulder rivers and as you climb higher the stream bed gets more interesting.
Here is a study of the higher reaches of the Butler on a grey drizzly day when the waters, fed by rain, are churning their way down the boulder banks and the limited visibility lends itself to an almost monochromatic effect. On a day like this the sound of the river drowns out everything else.
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