News from the Studio, New Locations and Project Updates
Project 365 – Week One
I had started posting these individually however I've decided that a weekly wrap up is much easier and gives me more of a diary feel. I'll go from Mondays through to Sundays so this week is a short one seeing as this year started on a Wednesday. Oh and ... YAYYY...
Photo Friday – My Life
This weeks Photo Friday: "My Life" Fireworks for the opening of the 2011 Rugby World Cup in Auckland. My life in a photograph - this one was hard! This photo has colour, lights and explosions. And it was taken on a boat. My life is challenging, exciting, loud and I...
Desie and Molly
Desie is a 4 year old Shih Tzu/King Charles/Cavalier and Molly is a 2 year old Brussels Griffon. I went to meet this gorgeous pair at the home of Margaret - who arranged this session as a Christmas present to her sister Annette. Desie is absolutely crazy for his green...
Metro Paws Christmas Dogs
I volunteered some of my time to help Metro Paws - which is where Nixie attends Doggy Day Care - photograph their Christmas Dogs. Parents gave a gold coin donation to Paws 4 Life, a registered charity operating in the Waikato aiming to reduce the population of...
Photo Friday – Fiery
This weeks Photo Friday: "Fiery" A Firebrick Starfish underwater at White Island, New Zealand. A starfish called Asterodiscides truncatus (described in 1911) is "the fire brick starfish" because of the very fiery colored, brick-like tubercles that cover the surface of...
Photo Friday – In the Wild
This weeks Photo Friday: "In the Wild" A silvertip shark swims past me in Bega Lagoon, Fiji. My first shark dive. Photographed with a Nikon D300 and a Tokina 10-17mm fish eye lens. The fish eye lens means you need to get close - really close. There is a very close...
Photo Friday – High Tech
This weeks Photo Friday: "High Tech" The knobs and valves of my manifold on my twinset. A twinset, twin steel tanks banded together with a manifold set to fully open (the diver breathes from both tanks at the same time) or closed (the diver breathes from one tank and...
Photo Friday – Swift
This weeks Photo Friday: "Swift" A storm front moves quickly over Beach Haven stealing the last of the days light and replacing it with rain.
Photo Friday – Autumn 2013
This weeks Photo Friday: "Autumn 2013" We have already had our Autumn for 2013 - it was back near the start of the year. Summer stretched itself out for as long as it could into those autumn months leaving us with warm still weather.
Photo Friday – Heavenly
This weeks Photo Friday: "Heavenly" Shafts of sunlight twinkle through the blue and I am floating. I could have wings as I feel like I am flying. I look up to the sun, a bright orb above us. I am a diver and I am in my heaven.
Photo Friday – Lonesome
This weeks Photo Friday: "Lonesome" kitten at Auckland SPCA's Mangere Animal Shelter waits for adoption. Shelter photography was the reason we were at the SPCA for the day. This was also the day that I applied to adopt Nixie. The rest of the photographs I took that...
Spring Sun Showers
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! ~ Sitting Bull
Oktoberfest at Deep Creek
On Saturday, Deep Creek Brewery in Browns Bay held their 3rd Oktoberfest. We packed the kids and the dog up on Friday and headed up to Auckland to stay with Mel and Gary and attend Oktoberfest for the second time. Live music, good beer, great friends - what more could...
Anna’s Birthday Dinner
Anna had a significant birthday whilst overseas at the end of September. We all got together on Wednesday night in Auckland to celebrate for that birthday. We went to dinner at Monsoon Poon and enjoyed South East Asian food, a bit of wine, a lot of laughs and a cake...
Over 100,000 views on Flickr
I was updating my Top Favourites set on Flickr this morning and I had a look at my stats page. I've recently passed over 100,000 views on Flickr. And that made me happy! Flickr is an easy location for me to store all my images for this blog and for sharing in general....
8 on 8 : Sunday in the Life
Sundays are quite possibly my favourite days. Especially when the morning starts by opening the curtains and having the sunshine spill in to my new room. Napoleon decided he wasn't interested in Sunday at all and stayed in bed (AND left dirty little paw prints on my...
South Island Road Trip
Last week Ken and I shared a suitcase and went on a mini South Island road trip. Destination - Geraldine. Geraldine is a really small down in the South Island - not unlike Greytown in a lot of ways (small cottages, arts and crafts and really good coffee). It is a...
HZPG Feedback | Southern White Rhinoceros
The brief was simple - enter up to three photographs of the Southern White Rhinoceros at Hamilton Zoo. Below are my three entries and the critique I received back from Trevor Penfold. Mother of the Calf Composition: It feels like you want to life everything up so I...