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...]
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.
Holiday in The Catlins & Fiordland
8 January, 2012 By 5 Comments
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...]
Seal Island, West Coast
25 November, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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...]
Ryde Falls panorama
14 November, 2011 By 1 Comment
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...]
Banks Peninsula Southern Bays
8 November, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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...]
Mt Cook in spring
7 November, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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...]
Canterbury High Country in snow
22 August, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We went out to Arthur's Pass last week just before the second snow storm and were disappointed, but after the recent snow I just had to get out into the hills. Sadly my partner Jenny is in Australia at the moment and missed out. I had planned on … [Read more...]
Banks Peninsula panorama
31 July, 2011 By 1 Comment
Taken from the bluff view on the Ōtepatotu Scenic Reserve loop walkway looking out over Akaroa Harbour. See if you can find the two hotspots in the interactive panorama you can click on to see photos taken from other angles of those parts of the … [Read more...]
After the Christchurch snow storm
25 July, 2011 By 3 Comments
Christchurch has been hit by a severe cold front the past 24 hours burying the city in snow. We've measured over five inches of snow in our backyard and the Port Hills are blanketed in white. We did get up to Sugar Loaf yesterday afternoon when there … [Read more...]
Mt Cook at winter
24 July, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We went and stayed at Mt Cook Village for three nights for my 28th birthday last weekend. It wasn't too cold during the day when the sun was up, but at dawn or after the sun went behind the alps it got quite cold. The weather was amazingly clear … [Read more...]
