Lamps

Wellington, New Zealand, 2006: Zorki 2 C/Jupiter 8

Jupiter 12

Wellington, New Zealand, 2008: A few shots using the exellent Jupiter-12 35mm lens around the Wellington region- the later on the south coast near Red Rocks… Zorki 4/Jupiter-12 35mm f2.8

Kingdom Come again…

Wellington, New Zealand, 2010: More images from the doomed (and now axed) set of the epic Jesus film “Kingdom Come“. Although the plot for the proposed film sounded dubious at best, the set was incredible and really took you back to circa AD Jerusalem, minus of course the grafitti… Ricoh XR-P/Rikenon 50mm f1.7/Fuji Superior 100 […]

Bowling Alley

Wellington, NZ, 2011: More shots from today at the “bowling alley”, the new bus lane through the former “Manners Mall”. This elder gentleman seemed to have a death wish and took the buses head-on…. Canon EOS 30D/Makinon 28mm f2.8

Brothers

Wellington, NZ, 2011: Hit the town today for a bit of street photography with Simon Burrow. He’s been shooting around the streets of Wellington for a few years now and building up an impressive portfolio. Grabbed a shot of this hooded guy at Cuba and Vivian Streets intersection, with a recently purchsed $10 Pentax screw […]

Bos

South Taranaki, New Zealand, 2004: Cows are bizarre looking creatures when you take a closer look- particularly in Taranaki where they are literally part of the landscape… Cows/cattle are the most common species of the genus Bos. The name cattle was borrowed from the old French word catel, meaning ‘moveable personal property’. The term is […]

Wahi

Wahi beach, Hawera, Taranaki, NZ, 2011: Shot this over the weekend at one of the beaches near my home town of Hawera. Wahi beach isn’t a great beach for swimming because of all the rocks, but the rocks are fantastic… Canon EOS 30D/18-55is

Border Country

Poipet, Cambodia, 2001: Crossing from Thailand into Cambodia was via an invisible line where the towns of Aranyaprathet (Thai) and Poipet (Cambodian) straddled the border. There was a visa scam at Cambodian passport control regarding whether you had particular vaccinations (yellow fever)- like it mattered… I managed to get through without paying a bribe by […]

1 Year

New Zealand, 2009: Have reached a small milestone here, this blog has now been going for just over 1 year… As of today/now, I’ve made 177 posts including almost 300 images; created 57 categories with 395 tags; and had 7,822 hits with 74 comments. Thanks for visiting and please don’t forget to vote on my […]