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Another sculpture is this week's Lost & Found, from my old home town of Wellington New Zealand. I've always been fond of Neil Dawson's Ferns sculpture, which hangs above the city's Civic Square in the centre of town - I was at the unveiling of it at the dawn ceremony to launch the 1998 New Zealand International Arts Festival, which was my first festival in that country not long after I'd arrived there.
Read MoreThis week's Lost & Found is a kinetic sculpture by New Zealander Phil Price, whose work I've enjoyed a great deal; this is Nucleus, which was put up in Christchurch in 2006, shortly before I visited and took this.
Read MoreIf you've been here before, you've probably noticed a difference. Today is the launch of Mark III of my online existence, and I just thought I'd have a quick look back at the ones that came before - above is my original site & logo design from 2002, by the wonderful Springload in Wellington, New Zealand.
Read MoreHappy Diwali, everyone! This image wasn't entirely lost in my archives, in fairness - much to my surprise, it appeared on the cover of a book some years after I'd taken it, which took a little sorting out with the publisher. But unless you own a copy of that publication (or got it from the library), you probably haven't seen this!
Read MoreMore gear testing! A little different this time, today's Lost & Found was actually taken with my first Fuji camera - the pocketable little F11, that came out in 2005. This forest is near where some of Lord Of The Rings was filmed, on Mt Victoria - fans of the film will no doubt recognise the landscape where the Hobbits had their first encounter with a Black Rider...
Read MoreToday's Lost & Found is another test with the Sigma 12-24mm and Canon's 1D Mark II - hard to think this was ten years ago already, actually!
Read MoreThere's a lot of sadness in the New Zealand theatre community at the moment, as news goes around of Willem Wassenaar's passing in Holland on the weekend. I met him a few times around town and at the New Zealand International Arts Festival, and photographed him at least once - leading a SchoolsFest workshop with a group of actors from The Walworth Farce in 2010.
Read MoreJust wanted to mention I've posted a new essay at the Kage Collective blog, Chronicle; I elaborate a little on a post I did here a couple of years back about the Hasselblad X-Pan (still one of my favourite cameras!), and the potential I could see in the Fuji X-Pro series expanding to include a super-wide panorama camera - this time though, I'm looking at a few different shapes & formats I've used over the years, and the benefits of trying different frames! Have a read - hope you enjoy it!
Read MoreToday's Lost & Found is another Canon 85L f/1.2 test with the 1Ds Mark II - I happened to walk through Miramar one afternoon when there was a rugby game on, and got to the corner of the field - just as they finished. I'm not sure now if they won or lost, but he looks happy enough with the result!
Read MoreToday's Lost & Found is another testing outing - this time with the Sigma 12-14mm lens, which was relatively new in 2004. Of course, this is on a slightly cropped camera body, the 1D Mark II, so it's effectively more like 16mm - I shot a few on film (remember FILM?!) that day too, just to see what the difference was like. 12mm is quite wide, it turns out!
Read MoreFunny how many of my lost & found images are from trying out gear - often I'll get something new, go a bit mad with it testing things, and then move on to using it for work without ever really giving much attention to the test shots. But some of them I really like, now that I do look!
Read MoreThe Skipper. The Mysterious Lady. The Tiger. A...unicorn? A concert by Melbourne band The Bombay Royale is always an interesting event, so when I heard they were going to open for Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings recently, of course I booked right away!
Read MoreA little while ago, I had the idea of doing a series of posts of photos I'd found on my hard drives that had, for whatever reason, never seen the light of day - the lost & found photos, some of which I barely even remember taking!
Read MoreI was sad to hear of motorsport writer Eoin Young's passing this morning; I can't claim to have known him long, in terms of his illustrious career, but I first met him twelve years ago when he brought the recently-retired voice of Formula One, Murray Walker, on a book tour of New Zealand. They were a great pair on stage, prompting each others' memory as needed (with a bit of assistance from his great friend Michael Clark), and made for a very enjoyable event.
Read MoreThis weekend saw thousands of Australians take to the streets of cities across the country to protest the Tony Abbott / Liberal coalition government's cuts to Federal spending in areas like education, health, the public sector, science and the environment, as well as their stance on immigration. Sydney was no exception - and the march, starting and finishing at Hyde Park, featured a brief concert by local band The Jezabels at the conclusion of the event...
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