Entries from 'New Zealand'
Day 6 – Ohakune to Raglan
- Aperture: f/8
- ISO: 250
- Shutter Speed: 8 s
- Focal Length: 24mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 6D
I decided to skip the cyclist shoot in the morning because I didn’t realy want to get caught up by 200 cysclists on the road … So I ended up leaving before 8 – with the aim of getting to the Waitomo Caves and possibly staying there overnight. Had a nice but uneventfull drive to…
Day 5 – Napier to Okahune
- Aperture: f/8
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/60 s
- Focal Length: 70mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 650D
Yesterday the holiday park was inundated with a bunch of wannabe bikers ( or MAMILs if you prefer – Middle Aged Men In Leather) on their way to a Harley Davidson rally in Palmerston North. I’ve come across a couple of different groups over the last couple of days and have had a chat with…
Day 4 – Taupo to Napier
- Aperture: f/8
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/320 s
- Focal Length: 210mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 650D
I had a sleep in this morning because a cloudy day was expected so there was little point waking up for the sunrise. I still managed to get up and away by 0800 though and headed for Napier. I am a little ahead of my proposed itinerary so rather than a straight runthrough to Napier,…
Day 3 Hotwater Beach to Taupo
- Aperture: f/7.1
- ISO: 400
- Shutter Speed: 1/800 s
- Focal Length: 82mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Another pre-sunrise start and a quick drive back to the Cathedral Cove carpark for the sunrise (I didn’t trek down to the cove itself this time though)…. Again not the worlds best sunrise (due to cloud cover), but a spectacular spot… and nice to have the place to myself without tourists. From Hahei beach I…
Coromandel Peninsula- Thames to Hot Water Beach
- Aperture: f/8
- ISO: 400
- Shutter Speed: 1/60 s
- Focal Length: 65mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 6D
I had an early start and left Thames in the dark at 05:45 because I wanted to get to the top of the Choromandel Peninsula for sunrise… In doing so I missed the best of a spectatular drive along the western coastline, with the road squeezed between the mountains and the sea… but I did…
Night 1 – Thames, Coromandel Peninsula
- Aperture: f/8
- ISO: 125
- Shutter Speed: 1/160 s
- Focal Length: 24mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Picked up the car with little incident and arrived in Thames, late afternoon- with the sun still blaring (it doesn’t set until 8:30ish), I had plenty of time to check in and give the town a once over. It ois not all that big. I also managed to get some basic food in form the…
Cathedral Cove, Hahei Beach
- Aperture: f/7.1
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/320 s
- Focal Length: 35mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Cathedral Cove is one of the most photographed places of New Zealand’s North Island – so deserves a post all of it’s own :). Accessible only by foot, boat or kayak, this is one of the “must visit” sites on The Coromandel. I had initially planned to do this as a sunrise shoot, but because…
Flying Business Class to Auckland
- Aperture: f/8
- ISO: 125
- Shutter Speed: 1/250 s
- Focal Length: 105mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 6D
I was offered the opportunity to upgrade my Brisbane to Auckland flight from economy to Business Class so I jumped at it. Only a 3 hr flight to Auckland so I couldn’t make the most of the fold down seat/bed (it goes compleltely flat), but all the othe benefits made it awesome. Emirates have only…
Day 10 – Christchurch / Akaroa
Drove to the Christchurch city centre this morning for a look around – very pretty – and then to check out Paintball – which was unfortunately closed (much to Jamies disgust). We then drove the 76km to Akaroa – a little town south east of Christchurch which is built on a bay which is part…
Day 9 – Wanaka to Christchurch
Planned today to just start driving towards Christchurch – stopping along the way, and see how far we got. I expected to get no further than Fairlie – but, even with 3 or 4 stops, we found ourselves there at 12:30 – so decided to keep going onto Chrstchurch – another couple of hours. Considered…