This place is wet and damp – as is most of the west coast of New Zealand’s South Island.  Debbie and I had gone here to photograph the limestone arches that this park is famous for, (we took this shot of Moria Gate on the same day) when we came across this pretty bend in a [...]

These are New zealand Fur seals and you can see them on the rocky headlands next to the road as you drive between Picton and kaikoura in New Zealand. In fact there are so many seals that local fishermen regard them as a pest, maintaining they are eating too many fish. To take this photo [...]

Debbie reading the newspaper outside the town library in Kaikoura, New zealand. Kaikoura is all about whale watching – hence this mural of a whale. I like the composition of this shot so that you can’t see the rest of the building. I took the photo in Camera RAw and tweaked the exposure only a [...]

This is a bracketed shot (three exposures) as night falls on Lake Rotoiti near Nelson in New Zealand. The shots were combined in Photomatic to produce a high Dynamic range photos. I plan to write a tutorial about how to do this – it’s on my to do list. The next morning I took this [...]

These ducks were still asleep when I photographed Lake Rotoiti near Nelson in New Zealand. I had already taken a great shot the night before of the lake looking down the wharf at twilight. It is amazing how different the two pictures are with different light and different treatment in Camera RAW software. The polarizing [...]

The Moeraki Boulders on the East Coast of New Zealand’s South Island look as if they are a set of marbles left behind by a careless giant. The rocks are perfectly round and volcanic in nature (don’t quote me on that). You can see more rocks being exposed in the bank behind the beach. as [...]

This friendly guy lives in Tonle Sap – the village that gets flooded every year during the rains.  I actually have quite a few great shots of that day so if you like this one, you’ll see plenty more in the Cambodia Gallery. Shutter speed: 1/20 Aperture: 5.6 ISO: 400

In Cambodia, like lots of places in South East Asia, the locals have a very flexible view of road safety. Helmets? Who needs ‘em? The basic idea is to pile as many as you can on to the motorbike (children can be stacked) whilst still maintaining balance and with a total disregard for any other [...]

Debbie and I meet this young girl in Tonle Sap Cambodia. Tonle Sap is near Ankor Wat but few travellers ever visit. The whole community is cut off when the lake floods for much of the year. The houses are built on stilts and everyone gets around by boat. The kids, as always in Cambodia, were [...]

I woke up about an hour earlier than I needed to get this sunrise shot of the Nugget point light house in New Zealand. I had to scramble up a hill and sit in the cold freezing my nuts off while I waited for sunrise. I took three photos at different exposures  (1 for the [...]

This is probably the most photographed waterfall in New Zealand. Purakaunui Waterfall is in the Catlins on the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island. To get this classic wispy water effect, just put your camera on a tripod and slow the shutter speed right down. You have to shoot in fairly low light to [...]

This is another goldminer’s cottage in the historic town of Arrowtown, near Queenstown in New Zealand. It’s my second best shot I took on the day. I prefer this shot of this cottage more. There was lots of bright dappled light and dark shadows so it isn’t as good as it would be if I [...]

This shot was taken on the West Coast road to Karame, heading towards the Kahurangi National Park. It was right on sunset so I did three exsposures using a tripod to capture the colours in the sky and in the puddles and used Photomatix to make a HDR (high dynamic range) exposure. The nikau palms [...]

I love this sheep – well not literally of course – but check out his horns. He was in a paddock full of rams with equally impressive head gear but this one was decent enough to look straight at me. Not only a sheep like this fun to photograph, they are also delicious. The shot [...]

These little fellas are fairly common in New Zealand. The black ones like these are called Variable Oystercatchers and the black and white ones are called Pied Oystercatchers. They live on sandy beaches just above the tide line. It’s really easy to turn an all black subject like this into a black blob. I usually [...]