What the Flowers See

Auckland Domain. View towards the Memorial Museum. Sony Nex 5n

A Clear Cool Stroll

As the rain falls down heavily today, I have a sort through some images shot yesterday. Typically usual of New Zealand this time of year, yesterday was fine and sunny (but chilly in the shade and quite windy), today is bucketing down. Images shot between Mission Bay and Saint Helliers, two seaside suburbs just out […]

New Plymouth Costal Track – in half a film

I mentioned over Christmas at New Plymouth that I had brought along an old disposable camera as well as my Sony. Simple, point and shoot with a plastic lens and low cost 35mm colour film. Well, the developing/scans came back. Amazingly all exposures were fine – not great, but thats the lo mo plastic lens way. […]

The Tractor

Kumeu Classic Car and Hotrod Show

This weekend marked the 21st Hotrod and Classic Car show in Kumeu. One could spend all weekend wandering through the isles of vehicles and things going on. We only had a few hours. Below is a very small selection of the variety on show. All shot on my Olympus E-500.

Summer 2015

Silo Vintage Market and Car Meet

Armed with my Ricoh GRD, We had a quick look around the Silo Vintage Market and Classic Car meet this afternoon. Lots of retro themed stores, classic music, tons of people in vintage attire, and some old cars. A nice little visit. Here are some more snaps from my walkabout

View from Paritutu Rock

The previous time we headed to New Plymouth, I made it half way up Paritutu Rock. Equipped with jandals (flip flops to some) and poor choice of climbing clothes I didn’t feel safe enough to navigate the raw rock and chain rope up to the summit. This time, aside from some fatigue of getting to […]

New Zealand Countryside in B&W

Between Christmas and New Year we took a drive down from Auckland to New Plymouth to see family. Here are a few snaps from one of the ‘stretch ones legs’ stops. I love the NZ countryside.

Te Henga (Bethells) Stroll

Gosh, where is the year going! For regular followers, apologies for the dead air. Been a very busy quarter year and one is not getting near enough images shot! Todays a quick unedited selection from a walk at Bethells Beach on Aucklands West Coast. Shot on the Ricoh GRD IV.