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Petone, Wellington, NZ 2006: For Earthquake ravaged Canterbury… Zorki-6/Industar-50

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Pencarrow, Wellington, NZ 2009: My first go at doing an HDR, without much success. Making an HDR (High Dynamic Range) image is combining a range of different exposures of the exact same scene, into one image. Issues such as movement, water in this case, can result in blown out highlights- time I had another go… […]

docia

Cappadocia, Turkey, 2003: Hired a scooter and biked around the central Kapadokya area- superb scenes and bizarre rock formations were the norm… Canon EOS A2E/28-105/Velvia

Dolphin

Pencarrow lighthouse (lwr), Wellington, NZ: Caught this one in a hundred shot of a dolphin “piloting” the Interislander ferry Kaitaki through the mouth of Wellington Harbour. I think it’s a Dusky Dolphin. Of the dozen or so shots I took, only one worked out… the first! Canon EOS 30D/Canon EF 70-200 f4 L

Kohangapiripiri

Lake Kohangapiripiri, Wellington, New Zealand 2008. Lake Kohangapiripiri translates in Maori as a nest clinging very strongly. It was formed after the valley became blocked from the nearby sea by earthquakes lifting the coastal area. It is unique in being one of New Zealand’s last relatively unspoiled wetlands. Photina Twin Lens Reflex / Fuji Reala […]

Battery Park

Manhattan, New York, 2004: Touched down at JFK near midnight local time after an 18hr trek from Auckland via LAX. Mid summer NZ to mid-winter New York hit hard while having cig outside. Grabbed a shuttle into town with a big and loud Jamaican man who blasted reggae at max on his system. The next […]

Mt Olivet

Jerusalem, Mount of Olives, 2005 A view from the Mount of Olives is breathtaking….. In the foreground is the Jewish cemetary of which there are an estimated 150,000 graves, going back all the way to biblical times. In the distance is the golden dome of the the most contested religious site in the world….. The […]

Yaprakhisar

Yaprakhisar, Cappadocia, Turkey, 2003: Legend has it that this view in Cappadoccia inspired George Lucas for many scenes in “Star Wars”- Tattooine and the Sand People in particular… Of course this possibly completely false but it certainly looks the part…..

Slightly out-of-focus

Pencarrow, Wellington, 2006: A double exposure shot on Wellington’s rugged East Harbour. It was along this coast on the 10th of April 1968, that the majority of the survivors of the “Wahine” ferry disaster made it to shore alive, or met their deaths. It is New Zealand’s worst modern maritime disaster, fifty-one people lost their […]