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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!
Read MoreFilm! 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.
Read MoreA 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!
Read MoreAnother 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.
Read MoreAnother 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...!
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreAnother 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.
Read MoreThis week's Lost & Found is a kinetic sculpture by New Zealander Phil Price, whose work I've enjoyed a great deal; this is Nucleus, which was put up in Christchurch in 2006, shortly before I visited and took this.
Read MoreIf you've been here before, you've probably noticed a difference. Today is the launch of Mark III of my online existence, and I just thought I'd have a quick look back at the ones that came before - above is my original site & logo design from 2002, by the wonderful Springload in Wellington, New Zealand.
Read MoreHappy Diwali, everyone! This image wasn't entirely lost in my archives, in fairness - much to my surprise, it appeared on the cover of a book some years after I'd taken it, which took a little sorting out with the publisher. But unless you own a copy of that publication (or got it from the library), you probably haven't seen this!
Read MoreMore gear testing! A little different this time, today's Lost & Found was actually taken with my first Fuji camera - the pocketable little F11, that came out in 2005. This forest is near where some of Lord Of The Rings was filmed, on Mt Victoria - fans of the film will no doubt recognise the landscape where the Hobbits had their first encounter with a Black Rider...
Read MoreToday's Lost & Found is another test with the Sigma 12-24mm and Canon's 1D Mark II - hard to think this was ten years ago already, actually!
Read MoreThere's a lot of sadness in the New Zealand theatre community at the moment, as news goes around of Willem Wassenaar's passing in Holland on the weekend. I met him a few times around town and at the New Zealand International Arts Festival, and photographed him at least once - leading a SchoolsFest workshop with a group of actors from The Walworth Farce in 2010.
Read MoreJust wanted to mention I've posted a new essay at the Kage Collective blog, Chronicle; I elaborate a little on a post I did here a couple of years back about the Hasselblad X-Pan (still one of my favourite cameras!), and the potential I could see in the Fuji X-Pro series expanding to include a super-wide panorama camera - this time though, I'm looking at a few different shapes & formats I've used over the years, and the benefits of trying different frames! Have a read - hope you enjoy it!
Read MoreToday's Lost & Found is another Canon 85L f/1.2 test with the 1Ds Mark II - I happened to walk through Miramar one afternoon when there was a rugby game on, and got to the corner of the field - just as they finished. I'm not sure now if they won or lost, but he looks happy enough with the result!
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