1 - A few photos from Manurewa's Botanical Gardens. Okay, it's South Auckland, but 'Garden of the North' seemed to be a suitably pithy title for a weekend update.
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Trapped in the Garden of the North
1 - A few photos from Manurewa's Botanical Gardens. Okay, it's South Auckland, but 'Garden of the North' seemed to be a suitably pithy title for a weekend update.
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No Access
1 - Modifications to Wellington's Airport seem to be ongoing - although these blocks have been an enduring feature of the coastline for quite a while now
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Luna Blu
1 - not exactly last night's red moon (Luna Rossa), but you're welcome to check out spaceweather.com's eclipse gallery here. This particular shot was captured on Sunday, just prior to the 'Relics' pair.
RPNYC Sailing Winter Series (Race 5)
1 - fine weather and a perfect sailing breeze to finish off the 2006/2007 season, and the Moore Wilson Winter Series.
Check out the photo gallery (9 photos) here
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Feathers
1 - Have you ever seen a sleeping Sparrow? Now you have... The combination of the speedlite (boosted to 'nuclear flash') and the 300mm telephoto worked out well
2 - I think this probably counts as a daggers sort of look, even if it is from a Waxeye
3 - Cormorant in flight
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...The Precioussss
I mentioned a couple of days ago that Nikon was about to announce a new camera - and they did, meet the Giorgetto Giugiaro designed Nikon D3. Giugiaro was also responsible for the Delorean DMC-12, the Ferrari GG50, and some other bits and pieces. It is quite a revolutionary design - it has liveview with autofocus, burst mode up to 9 frames per second (11 if you want...), and ISO boost to a staggering ISO 25,600. It even has a horizon display in the viewfinder. There's quite a good write-up here, and dpreview's preview article is here.
Gravity
1 - more experiments with the new speedlite, this time I was using the flash wirelessly to provide foreground lighting. The bright grey sky didn't really help matters, but the results seem to be worth sharing...
2 - complicated scenery made composing shots a little difficult
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We Wants It, We Needs It, We Must Have...
Check out this video on a new resizing technique for photos - it looks at the content and resizes by taking out (or adding) blank bits of sky before it starts attacking important content. The video explains it a little better than I just did! More details here.
In other news, it is new camera announcement season. Canon-ites already had the monster 10 megapixel, 10 frame per second 1d mkIII (complete with auto-focus teething problems), and now they have the 21 megapixel 1ds mkIII uber-camera ($10k anyone?), and the 40D (the competitor to my Nikon D200). Nikon's announcements are due before the end of the week. It's a curious feeling when your camera, which was near state of the art a week ago, suddenly isn't anymore. Of course, the photos it takes are still the same... If you're curious about what a 21 megapixel photo looks like, Canon kindly have a sample (9mb jpeg) here of a very nice looking model, taken with the grapefruit sized (and morbidly expensive) 85mm f1.2 lens. Naturally, the seething mob of photography forum dwellers have lost no time in spotting 'noise', 'chromatic aberrations', and 'moire'.
RPNYC Sailing Winter Series (Race 4)
1 - It has been over a month since the last race, but on Sunday the wind cooperated (sortof), allowing race 4 of the RPNYC's Moore Wilson Winter Series.
Check out the photo gallery (24 photos) here
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Royal New Zealand Ballet (part 3)
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Royal New Zealand Ballet (part 2)
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