This was taken on a short chopper flight near Queenstown a bunch of years ago. I liked the shot but man, did it take an age to finish off. There was a lot of moisture in the air, and it was all over the window of the helicopter. I tried to position my lens with minimal droplet cover but loads of it still showed up. So, it was off to Photoshop for some significant, time consuming, clean up.
… is my 360 camera. Lost it in NYC last time I was there. I say lost it… it’s complicated but my intentions were good.
Here’s a photo I got on the way to Mt. Cook/Aoraki, which is only a few hours from Queenstown. It’s one of the new stops we’re gonna do on the upcoming NZ Photo Adventure workshop happening soon!
This is a really nice little church by a graveyard in the south of Iceland. It was pretty much out in the middle of nowhere, as you can tell. The gate with the cross on the top leads to a tiny and lonely graveyard.
I love these creative buildings where architects push things into all sorts of weird shapes that don’t seem like they should stand.
At one point when driving through Yellowstone, I randomly got out of the car and started walking right into the forest on the edge of the road. There was a thick fog, and the morning sun was low, creating an unexpected box of light. I kept walking and walking until I found this area. It just felt right for whatever reason, so I set up to create this in HDR.
I think I’ve now used every model of Pixel and love them, so it was interesting to stumble across this podcast from The Verge where they interview Marc Levoy, former Google engineer. He led the team that developed computational photography technologies for the Pixel and I get a little mention just after the 24minute mark. A shortened text version is available here, the whole interview is super interesting though.
Thinking about going to live in Japan for a while and getting really immersed in their culture and way of life.
The time has finally come to move on from my trusty Sony a7R3. It’s been an awesome body and while I’ve flirted with some others over the past few years none of them felt like a useful upgrade, so I always ended up back on the Mark 3. Amongst other things it’s been with me from New York to San Francisco and loads in-between in the US, all over Asia, through Africa including being AWOL in Madagascar for a few days, went from the Portuguese coast to Russia via 9 other cities and more countries. It even survived Burning Man more than once. My companion on a bunch of hikes, including the Camino de Santiago and all-around New Zealand it’s been a phenomenal device.
Its replacement? The a7CR. I’ve been playing with it for a couple of months now and knowing that the Mk.3 with its forever lost eye cup and extremely well worn body was reaching the end during my Scottish adventure last summer, I was looking for something more compact for the next few years which are shaping up to involve a lot of time on the road. This is a great balance of great specs and compact size. The question is… stick with my 24-105 G or go for something a little more compact (and a bit less worn!)?
