(52Kb JPEG)Whilst out towards Cape Palliser this cloud hovered out to sea in the southern sky. With the surf rolling in below it made quite a dramatic image, at least to my eye anyways. Unfortunately in order to fit this to 1280x1024 I have had to crop the image slightly and I think it looses some impact because of this.
(77Kb JPEG)Near parliment buildings, in the centre of town (Wellington), there is a Cenotaph dedicated to the many war dead from the various wars New Zealand forces have been involved in. (Although it was originally dedicated to WWI and WWII casualties) This statue is a part of that monument, one of a pair standing guard over the steps leading up to the monument itself. It is a beautiful piece of work and I am quite pleased with how the shot came out, doing the statue itself some justice.
(110Kb JPEG)Finally a new backdrop, formated for a 16:10 display at 1680x1050 pixels. (Guess what my current screen is?) This is sort of a reprise shot of the South Island taken with my new digital camera. Makes for a nice but not overly intrusive backdrop. The only grumble I have is that the resizing operation has smoothed the image a little making it slightly soft. Works for a backdrop but would be annoying for a display image.
(146Kb JPEG)This is just a simple nightsky shot with the moon in it formatted for 1680x1050. Pushing the exposure out to fifteen seconds gives the clouds a chance to shine in the moonlight filling the sky out nicely. Naturally this blows the moon out so you lose all detail with it but I think it works well as an image.
(191Kb JPEG)Just below work is this industrial zone with oil tanks prominently featured in it. The shadows and colour of the scene caught my eye, thus the shot. Odd how something normally so ugly actually came out looking quite pretty...
(185Kb JPEG)Taken out Eastbourne way, this is a shot of some pebbles in the surf. I like the shadow and texture of it.
(232Kb JPEG)Yet more pebbles, also out Eastbourne way. This has more motion in it.
(53Kb JPEG)Taken from Oriental parade this shot makes quite a nice contrast of the plane against the vast clouds. Again, in order to preserve the aspect ratio, I have had to trim the image a bit and it suffers a little for this. For your interest, the plane is in Air New Zealand livery and you can just partialy make out the Koru on the tail.
(847Kb JPEG)Found on the grounds at work during a particularly copesetic Autumnal day. For once the auto-focus on the camera worked how I wanted - I really need to buy a digital SLR back once I have some spare money again. So here we have a Toadstool formated to 1680x1050 pixels for a backdrop. Just remember it is brightly coloured because it is poisonous...
(173Kb JPEG)Late in 2006, around mid December, the state of Victoria in Australia suffered a series of quite devestating forest fires. The smoke from that was sufficient in volume to reach New Zealand and gave us this quite spectacular sunset. Haven't seen one quite as red in a long time. Shame that such a beautiful sunset has to come at the price of such largescale destruction. This is formated to 1680x1050 pixels.
(128Kb JPEG)Eastbourne again, rocks this time. The colours foiled me a little so I may redo this shot with a polarising filter to bring the colour up a bit.
(187Kb JPEG)Everyone needs a little sand in their life. For the interested this is Island Bay sand.
(37Kb JPEG)The South Island of New Zealand, as seen last thing at night a little down the road from home. It is a difficult scene to capture on film and the automatic camera didn't cope all that well. I hope to redo this shot with my new, more manual, camera in the near future.
(161Kb JPEG)Here is what I consider the premier shot from the '24 hours in Wellington' photoshoot I participated in. It makes an excellent backdrop. Of course I could be biased in my assesment.