Tag: Auckland

  • Today marked a once in 16 year Solar Eclipse for New Zealand. I had taken my Nex and filters along to work, aiming to capture some form of it at about 10.20am. As my schedule would have it I had back to back meetings from 10am to midday, emerging out from the meeting room well…

  • What started out as a clear sunny day, turned into a heavily wet day by works end today. I had planned to have a stroll around some of the light industry areas, but was not prepared for the thick downpours the sky offered. Driving home I wanted to capture the weather a little. Using my…

  • We really had a day of changeable weather today in Auckland. One moment I was in warm sun, the next heavy rain. Looking out of my office window, out into the mix of suburbia and small industry, I shot today’s image on my Ricoh GRD IV. In post processing I resized, selected the clouds, pushed…

  • I tried out another photo app called Pudding Camera today. A fun, free app, Pudding Camera offers the user a wide selection of cameras (e.g. Basic, Snap, Panorama, motion, etc.), and a wide range of ‘film types’ aka filters. The camera selections apparantly come with different focal lengths, but this appears to simply be the…

  • A mobile post on the run today. Museum on the Hill was shot outside the Auckland Museum using the vignette app on my galaxy sII. A great place to visit, both for the surrounding park land and bush walks, as well as the museum itself, which one can potentially explore for an entire day. –…