I love exploring the outdoors, hiking up mountains, photographing white snow at sunset or the dark misty floor of old New Zealand podocarp forest, sitting by the side of wide boulder-strewn rivers and setting up my tripod in the middle of a creek to … [Read more...]
Photography & Travel Blog
Photos and stories from my travels around Australia and New Zealand, and the occassional overseas trip including Hawaii. I shoot with a Canon 400D DSLR using f/1.4 50mm and f/3.5-4.5 24-85mm lenses and occassionally borrow my partner's f/2.8 100mm macro, f/2.8 70-200mm and f/5-6.3 150-500mm lenses. I also have a modest Lensbaby system with a Composer lens and double glass, soft focus and pinhole/zone plate optics. I use a 430EX-II flash unit with Cactus V4 wireless trigger kit. For software I used Adobe Photoshop 6.0, Photomatix Pro for HDR, PTGui for panorama stitching and Pano2VR for creating interactive Flash widgets with my panoramas.
posted on August 5, 2012 by
Panorama of The Remarkables
The west slopes of The Remarkables on the long muddy road up to the skifield, looking down on Frankton and across to Queenstown over the shoulder of Peninsula Hill with Lake Wakatipu, the Eyre and Thompson Mountains in the background. … [Read more...]
posted on April 22, 2012 by
West Coast Glaciers
For Easter this year we headed over to the glaciers on the West Coast, namely Fox Glacier and Franz Josef Glacier. Both glaciers have townships of the same name at their feet; tourists spots where you can organise your ground and air … [Read more...]
posted on April 22, 2012 by
Moeraki Boulders at sunrise
It was her idea. I had little interest in getting up while it was still dark outside, trudging down to the beach and sitting on the cold wet sand for hours in the hope of getting some decent photos of the popular Moeraki Boulders. We had just the … [Read more...]
posted on January 12, 2012 by
McLean Falls panorama
Taken standing in the middle of the river at the foot of the Falls. There are several more tiers which you cannot see here. Not a terribly exciting panorama - just wanted you show some of the surrounding forest and put the Falls in context. … [Read more...]
posted on January 8, 2012 by
Holiday in The Catlins & Fiordland
Over Christmas and New Years 2011 we went on a roadtrip of the south-east and south-west regions of New Zealand's South Island. My first time down past Dunedin and to Fiordland. We camped most of the time with a hotel every few days for shower and a … [Read more...]
posted on November 25, 2011 by
Seal Island, West Coast
Seal Island on the West Coast of New Zealand off Kaipakiti Point north of Punakaiki. This set of photos was taken while my dad visited us in New Zealand. See more photos taken while he was here. Whilst processing this panorama I discovered that … [Read more...]
posted on November 14, 2011 by
Ryde Falls panorama
Went back to Ryde Falls in Oxford Forest with my dad today and took a 7-frame panorama at the top of the lower tier of the Falls. … [Read more...]
posted on November 8, 2011 by
Banks Peninsula Southern Bays
We've been to Akaroa and the eastern side half a dozen times but we decided to check out the south-west corner of the Banks Peninsula including the Southern Bays. Out along a ridge on Bossu Road looking back east across Lake Forsyth towards Little … [Read more...]
posted on November 7, 2011 by
Mt Cook in spring
After struggling to get around Mt Cook in winter we went back late October with all the roads open and walking tracks accessible. Unfortunately the Hooker Valley track is closed for work on all the swing bridges and for turning the trail into a … [Read more...]
