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ANZAC Day
A sacred day for all Kiwis and Aussies. As I couldn’t drag myself out of bed for a dawn service standing in the rain, I thought I’d post some ANZAC images instead, taken at the Auckland War Memorial...
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Images of Architecture Exhibition
Wind Tree Flight I’ve entered these three photographs into the above mentioned Auckland exhibition showing at the Mairangi Arts Centre on the North Shore from May 2nd to 11th. Although I have had work...
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Bethells Surfer
We returned to Bethells with some Trinidadians last weekend to show them the raw beauty of Auckland’s west coast. The tide was out and the wet surface of the sand gleamed like a mirror, perfect for...
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Ghostly Greenhithe
Winter is drawing in and with the cold mornings and clear skies comes fog. It blankets the valleys in a wondrous, ghostly disguise and I love to take my camera out into the eerie conditions when the...
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Classy Cars in The Cloud
On the Queen’s Birthday holiday weekend — not celebrated in Britain itself, just the colonies — we came across an exhibition of all things British in The Cloud, a strange architectural creation which...
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Troll Country
Castle Hill Reserve (Kura Tawhiti) is a landscape straight out of Middle Earth. Peter Jackson used it in his Lord Of The Rings films and it also features in the first Narnia movie, The Lion, The Witch...
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Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park
Third time lucky. Previous attempts had been obscured by the normal hazards that arise trying to get a clear view of New Zealand’s tallest mountain — swirling, obstinate cloud that won’t budge. This...
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Among the Volcanoes
In 2005 I attended the 10th anniversary of the devastating Mt Souffriere volcanic eruption on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. While there, covering a scientific conference within sight of the...
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Spicy Tomato Soup
This yummy soup is adapted from Gordon Ramsay’s recipe for ”creamy tomato soup with sundried tomato pesto” from his book Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Home Cooking. I made it the other night and it was...
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Golf Course Light
Some people, probably most who don’t play it, find golf boring. That’s understandable. But one of golf’s great attractions — and even non-players would have to admit this — are the locations in which...
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Today’s Photo: Pukaki Dreaming
It looks like a dream, or part of a fantasy from a Tolkien novel, but it’s the real thing, the skies around the Southern Alps being able to create extraordinary palettes of colour and texture. I’ve...
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Cathedral Cove
There was no alternative but to rise with the sun. That way the photographs would be more interesting, it would be cool for the 2 hour return walk and, importantly, we would miss out on the hordes (up...
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Lamb Tagine with Peas and Lemons served with a Tagine of Chickpeas
A Moroccan meal which is pretty easy to prepare and absolutely delicious! You don’t really need one of those pretty tangines, like the one above given to me for Father’s Day, as you can use a good...
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Long Lens Weekend
I hired a Canon 300mm f4 lens with a 1.4 converter, which tuns it into 420mm, for the weekend and went to Auckland Zoo to try it out. The next morning I got up at 3am and caught a ferry to Tiritiri...
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West Coast Wanderings
Piha Spring The west coast of Auckland, in and around the Waitakere Ranges, is a wild and rugged place quite unlike any other part of New Zealand. It’s one of our favourite places to visit for walks,...
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Stop That Light!!
I’ve been experimenting with long exposure photography. By that I mean anything with an exposure time of more than about 5 seconds. The photograph of the wriggly rocks above has an exposure time of 40...
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Today’s Sculpture — Only In The World
Made from reinforced plaster and timber, Ramon Robertson’s strange figures are one of the stars of this year’s NZ Sculpture OnShore exhibition currently being held at Fort Takapuna overlooking the...
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Warhorse
My favourite artwork at this year’s NZ Sculpture OnShore is Sharon Earl’s Warhorse, a tribute to the centennial anniversary of the end of World War One, to the soldiers and horses that died. Of the...
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Quarter-acre Weatherboard Paradise
Richard Wedekind is one of the most original artists at Sculpture OnShore, and his Quarter-acre Weatherboard Paradise is one of his most clever works. It’s a commentary on the Kiwi dream of owning a...
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Dawn Awakening
From one angle he looks almost human, from another like a weird, menacing bird. I’m not sure what Dawn Awakening by Tim Elliot is supposed to mean, but I do know I like it very much. Filed under: Art...
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