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...]

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...]

Taken on the Hooker Valley Track between Mt Sefton on the left and Mt Wakefield on the right, alongside the Hooker River supplier by Mueller Glacier and Hooker Glacier. Half a dozen named glaciers run off Mt Cook/Aoraki into Hooker Glacier from the … [Read more...]

Panorama taken of Sealy Range, Mt Sefton and the Mt Cook Range on our 8km return walk along the Hooker Valley Track on our 4-day weekend away for my 28th birthday. See a panorama of the Hooker Valley & Mueller Glacier further north. … [Read more...]

Interactive panorama of Mount Hutt Range in New Zealand taken from the head of the Pudding Hill Stream Route. Stitched together from 11 photos. Click and drag around the panorama. There are also five hotspots on the panorama that you can click on … [Read more...]

Interactive panorama of the Southern Alps taken during our trip up to Mt Hutt today, stitched together from 12 photos. Click and drag around the panorama to view the snow-covered mountains. Also check out my Mt Hutt Range panorama. … [Read more...]

Collecting Lensbaby optics and filters is an addictive hobby; I'm currently on three optics plus the macro filter kit for my Composer lens and hopefully I can leave it that way but they keep releasing new products and their existing product range is … [Read more...]

Last weekend was a long weekend and we spent four days over on the west coast - although most of the first and last day were spent driving. It's a fair distance and as photographers we pull off the road a fair bit - it is New Zealand after all! We … [Read more...]

Click and hold, and drag your mouse cursor around the image to explore the panorama. My first attempt at building a full 360-degree panorama, assembled from 15 photos stitched in PTGui and then converted to an interactive Flash widget using … [Read more...]

I’ve never been a fan of panoramas until I decided to try PTGui and now that I know how easy and awesome it is I’m hooked! Here’s a panorama I took up on Sugarloaf in the Port Hills this afternoon, looking from Dyers Pass across to … [Read more...]