We again attended the Petone Winter Carnival this year, having enjoyed our visit last time around. We weren’t quite as organised this year and turned up late for the fire sculptures, most of them already alight or finished burning when we finally got to the beach. We got to see the final two burning, the […]
Smaug the Golden
Smaug the Golden is the first in a range of statues being produced by Weta based on the artwork of John Howe, this particular piece coming from illustrations for the Hobbit. I quite enjoyed getting the large box home and then unpacking the statue. We have a small problem in that we don’t really have […]
Mary Victoria & The Weta Cave
Saturday afternoon we headed to the Weta Cave in Miramar. There were three reasons for a visit. We had a Lord of the Rings statue to pick up (more on that later), there was the recent change of displays at the Cave to look over and we timed the visit (I say we, it’s more […]
Zoo Portraits
I sent my big Sigma lens off to be repaired earlier this week and this meant I was using a different lens than what I would normally choose when I visited the zoo on Wednesday. I used my Tamron macro lens the whole time and this leant itself to animal portraits, I was also using […]
Up for dawn
The rain and wind of the last few weeks cleared for a few days so I got out one morning this week to take a few photos. Photo by Brendon & Keryn Looking towards the dawn glow over Lyall Bay, from Tarakena Bay Photo by Brendon & Keryn Looking the other way towards Bearing Head […]
Only if you don’t mind
I’ve gone and entered another popularity contest masquerading as a photo competition and need some votes, stop reading if this isn’t your thing 😉 The travel/social media site Gecko Go has a photo competition in association with Intrepid Travel & Brandt Guides with three trips as prizes, all to places we haven’t been yet. I’ve […]
Sinclair Head Seals
Keryn and I haven’t yet visited the well known Red Rocks on the Wellington south coast so I decided I’d go have a look. The forecast fine day turned out to be grey and drizzly, good walking weather I suppose. I parked at the Owhiro Bay information point and started the walk along the coastal […]
Looking for whales, finding only dolphins
The day after our Auckland photo walk we took advantage of more good weather to book a Hauraki Gulf Safari, the decision aided by Travis and Sophie having obtained very cheap tickets. We barely saw a swell on the four hour trip around the Gulf and it was warm in the sun which was just […]
An Aside: What I’m Listening Too
I am not a music critic, not even close. I generally either like what I’m hearing or don’t. I don’t listen to the radio, and it’s fair to say I’m influenced nearly 100% by a combination of music I’ve liked in the past and the websites I regularly visit. Taking a nod from the New […]
Photo walk in Devonport
We were up in Auckland for Keryn’s Mum’s birthday and this coincided with the 2010 Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk. Last year I joined the Wellington walk and as we were up north I joined the walk taking place in Devonport. Keryn, Sophie and Travis all came along as well and the day was beautifully […]
Paekakariki Tattoo
Last week on a busy Wednesday I took the chance to go watch a tattoo be created on the back of Jules. I was even told to bring my camera if I wanted, so guess what I did 😉 The tattoo work was done by Tim Hunt at Pacific Tattoo in Paekakariki, Jules was very […]
Movies
We normally see a movie a month or so but this last week I’ve seen three (Keryn didn’t see the second). Here are some brief thoughts on three quite different movies: Inception We caught a free showing of Inception in Wellington (thanks Flicks!). I’d been looking forward to this movie having enjoyed every Chris Nolan […]