Blog Archive
Check out some of my recent work, and my essays on Photographing The Arts!
Last night was the second group of plays presented as part of Asylum, by Apocalypse Theatre here in Sydney - and another great group of performers, and scripts...
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Today's Lost & Found was something that just happened one day on the lawn outside City Gallery, in Wellington's Civic Square - I found out later it wasn't an actual exhibition, someone just did it! I'm not sure it was ever made clear who was responsible...
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This Lost & Found is another one from the PSNZ Conference in Whanganui in 2009, when we all got up terribly early for some reason involving light. Something like that. I'm sure it made sense at the time...!
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This one from the Lost & Found collection is from a photography field trip with Craig Potton one morning, as part of the PSNZ National Conference in Wanganui, in 2009. I don't get up that early often, but I did enjoy it that time!
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Another Lost & Found test with the Canon 1Ds Mark II and 85L f/1.2, from a beach walk in Waikanae. (Obviously I wasn't testing the tracking focus, this time!)
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I can't choose between these two at the moment, so I'm doing a double-post for this week's Lost & Found - hey, it's my website, right? I honestly don't know the true name of this plant, I think of it as cotton grass but it's a some kind of marsh grower.
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Another one from the Lost & Found files taken with the original Ricoh GR-D (which was a great little camera, but a bit slow on RAW files), this is from up in Maupuia on the Miramar Peninsula in Wellington, New Zealand. These two sailboats are just chasing the last light of the day back to Evans Bay Marina before what looks like a fairly serious storm closes in on them...hope they made it!
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Film! This one's on REAL FILM, look everyone! From the truly Lost & Found department, this is one foggy morning on Wellington's waterfront, back when I was playing about with rangefinder cameras for the first time. I found myself a Voigtlander Bessa and a 28mm lens (if I remember correctly) and got back into film for a brief window before digital cameras hooked me again.
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A more recent one for this week's Lost & Found - from beautiful Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand. Such a gorgeous place; this was in May 2012, when autumn was just setting in - a great time to visit, as if there's a BAD time!
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Another for the Lost & Found files: these grasses are one of those things that New Zealanders recognise immediately - though I'm sure someone told me recently they're actually not a domestic plant, they're South American pampas grass! I'm not sure about that - I think there are a few species which are similar, some of which are local to NZ - I just can't be sure which one happens to be in this photo.
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Another Lost & Found image for the collection, and also from a morning walk in Seatoun - this time the tower of the Anglican Church of St George at the corner of Tio Tio Road and Ferry St in Seatoun, where I used to turn to head up the hill on my way back from the beach. New Zealand's morning autumn light is quite beautiful, if you get up early...!
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I was just saying in the last Lost & Found that I probably had more photos of the Ferns sculpture in Civic Square than anything else, but then I remembered this: Seatoun Wharf. I would walk down there every morning for many years in Wellington, just as a good way to start the day, but of course the light was nice, and I usually had a camera with me - probably one I was trying out, too.
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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.
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