G'Bye 2004, 'ello 2005!

What does a photographer do after New Years Celebrations, he groggily gets up with his last remaining bottle o' grog and goes to the beach to take photos!

Below are some photographs I took New Years morning with my bottles of Lindemans, a fine Aussie wine and excellent subject matter. I ended up topping over my glass of red (what else do ya expect) and even took a few photos. As I was about to leave mr. new years rainbow appeared as well!











This is a completely different rainbow... I didn't even realise this was on the flash card until I downloaded it! This was done with a self timer - This is me & me favorite glass 'o lindy's :-)

Kitekite Falls, Piha New Zealand

These photos were taken on Boxing Day 2004. The last image is black & white but I left the fern on the water in colour to try to make it more interesting. I usually don't do such things but its probably just a one-off time that I play around with black & which and colour in the same photograph.

Whatipu Christmas

Christmas day Zoe, Ash and myself went to Whatipu for a bit of a tramp. We somehow managed to wrangle a 1 tramp to a 4 hour odessey in which we decided to go from the cliffs directly to the ocean... needless to say that never happened! We had to backtrack after getting stuck in the marsh full of briars and thorny gorse! Here are a few pics from the day:

bethel's beach, te henga christmas!

There are several more photos that are going here, I thought I would kick it off with this. I'll add more later, but today is my birthday, number 30 in fact! I'll be moseying down to the beerstore to get some brewskies and celebrating with my friends later this evening.

This is Bethel's beach on Christmas eve, 2004:

Yawn, yet another rainbow...

I could resist whipping out the ol' d-10 and taking this pic. This one is right off the Port of Auckland. In the distance is some kind of old sailing ship. Taken with my 15-30 Wide Angle. Specs: f/11 180sec, 30mm.

Port Waikato

Just found a couple of old pics from port waikato, one of my fav places in all of NZ. Not the best of my work, but I'd thought I'd chuck em up here:

feeling crabby:


orange reflections:

Just another rainbow shot

I woke up this morning with a nasty hangover at 6:00 am. I couldn't get any sleep so I decided to head up to bastion point with my camera. One the way up I took this shot, my hangover felt alot more tolerable afterwards.

Playing with light

haven't posted here in a while but I thought i'd share a couple of my most recent photographs - both have some interesting lighted. The first is a playground at Mission Bay Selwyn park. I took a little work to post process this as the foreground was way too dark. But overall, it turned out ok. The second is a just a really quick snapshot of the Civic Center in Auckland CBD with interesting light reflections on it from the adjacent building.