The weather report promised another glorious day so I decided to try for a sunrise. We got up to a two degree frost and heavy fog! However I know from experience that when the Hutt Valley is shrouded in fog, Wellington City generally isn’t, so we headed into Wellington. Cutting it extremely fine time wise, the […]
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Wellington put on a stunner of a day today, so the camera and I went out for a short walk in between doing a bunch of other stuff. We wandered along the waterfront which I expected to be great, but in fact it was a little bit boring. At least the end where we were.
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Last August just before we headed off for a trip to Brisbane was the last time we saw the tui at our feeders. He has been gone over the Summer months as there has been an abundance of natural food about. He wasn’t the only one to leave us either, the waxeyes also disappeared from
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With the colder weather comes shorter days and finding the sunshine in the right place at the right time is not so easy. When shooting both the kingfishers and my 30 second project, I need the sun to be out and shining bright. It is not essential for the 30 second shots but it does
On the way home from Waikanae, we stopped in at the inlet to check out what the kingfishers were up to. We had called in on the way out but the tide was totally out so while I saw plenty of them, they were too far out to bother with. So I sat down to
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We woke to a brilliant sky and even though it was a little chilly we jumped in the car and headed off to the beach with the camera. Today’s pick of beaches was Waikanae and Paekakariki. Initially I was looking for the posts that are in the water to stop cars from driving up the
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Today we are heading back to my Good Friday trip to Auckland Zoo and in particular the fur seal enclosure. Normally these guys don’t really do much for me photographically but this time they were a real treat! I got so many opportunities at close ups of them and the light was just lovely creating
The kingfishers were the first port of call on Sunday and they were out playing. A fellow photographer got some close ups as I was walking over but they didn’t come back while I was there, preferring to play a little further away. A couple of kids were playing about in the same area so
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Sunday saw the first frost of the season on our back lawn but with it the promise of a gloriously sunny day. Having already slept in a couple of hours more than usual it was a quick breakfast and shower before heading off to make the most of the sunshine. We flitted from one spot
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Today’s collection of images is a bit of a mash up. Basically they can all be found around the back end of the Auckland zoo. They have some walk in aviaries that let you get clear shots of the birds now which is an added bonus. The kea like to get a little too close
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