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Crossing the Final Bridge
Coming Soon on YouTube! You will soon be able to buy and watch all the New Zealand Photo Adventure right on YouTube – all four hours! Two hours of live action and another two of post-processing. Daily...
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Coming around for a snack at The Hills
Doing a search on the New SmugMug I’m really enjoying searching on the new SmugMug! You can see the search box I added there at the top of my portfolio. Here is a sample search from Arrowtown (for more...
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The Wine Barrels at Gibbston Valley Winery
A great Wine Tour! If you’re looking for a good wine tour here in the south island of New Zealand, I recommend Appellation Central Wine Tours! Even though I live here, this was still a great way to do...
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Storm Approaches the Home Through the Valley
The Next Two Workshops I only did two in 2013, and there are only two planned for 2014. Here’s a little (WINDY!) thing we just recorded at the last one. You’re welcome to join us for one of the next...
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Walking Along Arrowtown Lake
Stuck on Earth now on iPhone! This has recently been released for the iPhone! Stuck On Earth – Yay! What’s Cool about the App? - It brings travel planning to Google Maps or iOS Maps (even though Google...
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A Peaceful morning in Bendemeer
Going Paragliding I was invited to Paragliding tomorrow. I’ve never done this before… and sorry mom, I know you read the blog. If you see a blog entry the NEXT day, then you’ll know I made it! I’ll be...
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Road Through The Hills
New Category Location If you want to see more photos from a certain category — say today and “Arrowtown” for example, just click on the little link above, and you’ll see photos from just that category!...
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Mystery Photo – What is it?
Vertical Monitors I’ve taken to using my external monitor and flipping it up on it’s side so that it is vertical. It’s really cool, actually! I use my main Retina Macbook here to do my editing, but the...
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The Blue Door in Arrowtown
Your favorite secret pub or bar? I guess I’ve taken to calling them pubs because everyone uses that word here… but if you have a favorite secret haunt, please be sure to share it below! Daily Photo –...
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Friendly Horses in the Field
Composition Challenge Whenever I take photos of objects that are defined by their shapes, I do my best to position my body (head) so that the objects do not overlap one another. I want each to have its...
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Pete on a hike on Sawpit Gully
Taking the Sony A7r on Hikes I’ve taken to carrying the Sony A7r and just two lenses on these hikes. I think you can take a big DSLR too, of course, but it’s so much easier to take this light little...
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Misty Pond in the Morning
Soggy Feet I think this last year has been my Soggiest Foot-Year On Record. I do end up out taking a lot of photos as usual, but there just seems to be a massive amount of soggy ground around this area...
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Happy Easter from the Ratcliff Family!
Have a great Easter! Have a good Easter, or, at least have a lot of chocolate! Here’s some super-fresh photos from our Easter egg hunt here today. We go up to The Hills and Sebastian dresses up as this...
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The Autumn Hillside Above Arrowtown
Changing Autumn Colors Other than New England and down here, where else in the world is know for colorful and beautiful Autumns? There must be a ton of them, but I don’t hear about many of them… let us...
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High Above the Southern Alps and Tips for shooting from fast-moving vehicles
How to take photos from high-speed vehicles in the daytime The photo below is a good example of this, seeing as it is from a helicopter! It’s best get out of Aperture Priority mode (which I contend is...
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The View from the Barn at Lake Hayes
The Barn at Lake Hayes Don’t forget that if you come to this area here in Queenstown and Arrowtown that you should totally stay at “The Barn at Lake Hayes” — it’s just incredible there as it backs onto...
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Looking upwards by the river
New Trick with Cameras I figured out a new strange way to take photos with my Sony A7r — actually this will work with any camera that has a flip out screen that points at least 90 degrees upwards. As...
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The Paragliding Flight School in Queenstown
Speaking of the Flight School Here’s a full video about me learning to fly at the place depicted below! Daily Photo – The Flight School Cafe You have to come here after having Swanny all up your...
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Amazing PhotoWalk in Denver!
Winners Chosen, but Good News, 20% off for everyone else! Thanks again for participating in the Trey’s Lightroom Presets giveaway yesterday! We put together a special discount code of 20% off ANY of...
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Arrowtown in the Autumn
Composition Tricks Here’s a little trick with composing photos. As you know, it’s usually bad form to put major things (like the sun) in the middle of the photograph. But, if you turn the camera...
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