Looking forward to the game in a few hours (All Whites vs Paraguay in the 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa, for those under a rock), realistically NZ need a win from the game to proceed so they’re going to have to be more adventurous than the first couple of games. Seems like an […]
Catching up on the past: Cambodia
Continuing the effort to get more of our travel photos online I have uploaded a set from our time in Cambodia (many of which have appeared on the blog during the Cambodia travel entries). Here’s a shot which hasn’t appeared here before, taken on a boat trip in the Ream National Park. Photo by Brendon […]
New, old photos
I’ve been uploading photos that we used to display in the gallery on 2kiwis to our flickr account, the latest set our final days travelling in the UK before leaving on our six month journey back to NZ. Looking at the photos I’ve got left to upload I realised that there are quite a few […]
Entering competitions
I’ve been entering a few photo competitions today, specifically the Landscape Photo competition on the Burrard-Lucas photography blog and the Travel Photo competition on Darwin Wiggett’s site. The entry for the Darwin Wiggett compeition is below. Now I really should get outside given the great weather. Children running up the stairs of their home in […]
A week of rain
The last few weeks have been pretty wet, though thankfully the Wellington region has been largely free of the flooding occurring in other parts of New Zealand. We’ve been getting out a little bit and went in to town one cold and wet evening to see Mel Parsons play at Bats Theatre. Bats is a […]
East Coast Holiday: The Kaituna River
Leaving Whakatane we had one last leg to the holiday, driving to Hamilton. Camping now done with we decided to eat out and had the unfortunate experience of eating at a place called Cafe Surfside. My pancakes were ok (if rather too much for me to finish) but Keryn’s french toast was terrible, a case […]
NZ Photographer magazine
I have written an article in the latest NZ Photographer magazine which you can sign up for here (it’s free): http://www.nzphotographer.co.nz/ (and there is the requisite facebook page as well). The article covers tips and tricks for discovering photographic locations, titled “Hidden Photos: Discovering Locations”. You can read issue 15 of the magazine containing the […]
East Coast Holiday: White Island
We figured seeing as we were going to be in the area we should try to go out to Whakaari/White Island, which is very much a weather dependant activity. Luckily for us the weather held out and the trip we were booked on sailed as intended. We took the journey with White Island Tours and […]
East Coast Holiday: Driving to Whakatane
Seeking the sunrise has been a theme a few times on this East Coast holiday and today we got up extra early for another sunrise mission. The location for the sun vigil was East Cape lighthouse and we had a 50km drive and then a walk up a path of 700 odd steps before we’d […]
Moved
We have moved to Camborne. The owners of our previous place decided to sell as they were themselves moving away from Wellington, so we decided that rather than wait for a new owner who might want to rent the place we would look to move. We quite like the idea of living on the Kapiti […]
Sunset & St Peters Hall
Saturday just gone we took a break from packing and headed to the Kapiti Coast. Local songstress Jess Chambers was performing at St Peters Hall in Paekakariki and I decided we should attend, I’ve been meaning to catch Jess play for a long time but the dates just haven’t worked out to date. We drove […]
East Coast Holiday: Eastenders Backpackers
Up early we took a walk with the backpackers dog Tux to watch the sunrise. We walked down the road and headed uphill through a gate labelled with a sunrise sign, Tux leading the whole time. A farm track took us upwards until we came to a rise where we could see the ocean and […]