A day on the farm – a sneek peak

It’s been a struggle but I’ve whittled down my picks for the photography workshop to a mere 96 photographs.  Now all I have to do is process them and decide how best to tell the story of the day on Ohariu Farm.  Film photography probably makes you more...

Stepping out with photographers

As I pulled up in the car park I was excited yet petrified.  What if my newly charged battery would run out of juice?  What if everyone else was an expert and I was the class dork? Maybe I’d be out of my depths with a host of highly qualified camera geeks. ...

Something extraordinary in an ordinary place

“Photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place………. ……………it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them”...

Travelling away

Travelling light is an alien concept to me.  It doesn’t matter where or when I’ve travelled in the world I always seem to wind up lugging a dead weight of luggage around with me.  My overnight trip to Auckland was no exception although this time is was...

What’s real for you?

I do I worry about my home bird tendencies.  Being at home away from the crowds is just how I like things to be but I do worry if I will become detached from the real world, whatever the real world is these days.  For the virtual world of the internet that world can...