Not as Dead Flower
Not as dead as the last one
Nikon F5, 50mm f1.8 Lens, PK13 Extension Tube, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film
Dead Flower
Dont you just love it when your walking along (admittedly in a cemetery) and you go “Hey, that dead looking flower is pretty cool, I just happen to have an extension tube and a 50mm on my F5, This could be a cool image”
And it was True Story
🙂 
Nikon F5, 50mm f1.8 Lens, PK13 Extension Tube, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO film, Gold toning care of Photoshop.
Thistle
Thistle at the Cemetery
Flash situated above the head of the thistle just out of frame in order to have more light fall-off.
Nikon F5, 50mm f1.8 Lens, Velvia 50 ISO film, SB80DX Speedlite, Radio Remote Flash Trigger.
Bannockburn Sluicings
Located in Central Otago, New Zealand, this is an area that was extensively gold mined at the end of the 1800’s.
Its kinda impressive to look at since you can see how high the land used to be and this was done without machinery.
There are several mine shafts as well as the general sluicing areas
Nikon F5, 19-35mm Lens, Ilford HP5 400 ISO film
Old Burned Out House
An old partially burned out house in Tapanui… Dont think it is there anymore.
Nikon F5, 19-35mm Lens, Ilford HP5 400 ISO film and bad scanning from a lab… must find negs and rescan properly
Darkroom Printing Session
Spent 6 hours in a darkroom on Wednesday. Managedto print these images at 12 x 16 inches on some heavy weight gloss RC paper.
Hopefully I will get to go again in a week or so andf print the other 5 – 7 images that will hopefully make up an exhibition.
Fatherhood Friday 15: Teething…You Want Sleep With That?
Samantha is currently working on a couple of molars as well as a coupler of eye teeth. She has pretty much stopped eating solids and is relying mostly on breast milk. This means that she is waking every couple of hours at night because she is hungry and mostly grumpy during the day because Amanda is at work and only feeds her once at lunch time.
Emily is excited about going to see her cousin Alex this weekend after missing her birthday last weekend due to a vomiting bug.
At least no-one is sick…Touch Wood!
Luc the cat comes to visit on rainy days… Not sure why.
A couple of Old Ladies and 7’s Chaos
This was taken at the Rugby 7’s after party. It amused me that there was a couple of old ladies wandering around amongst thousands of dressed up drunk young people. unfortunately after I spotted them they headed away from where all the costumed people were so this was the best shot I got.
Nikon F5, 50mm f1.8 lens, Ilford Delta 3200 film.
Fatherhood Friday 14: Back From The Snowy Mountain.
Emily and I got back from the “Snowy Mountain” on Tuesday after having many adventures and narrowly missing being snowed in for a couple of days by only 6 hours.
Emily:
She got to play with her two cousins Ben and Harry and go sledging, have snowball fights and generally romp round being a kid in snow.
Grandma and granddad were both impressed with her fearlessness in the snow considering she has never seen it before and she only got a bit scared when she got snow down her coat and didn’t like the cold.
She was very sad to leave and spent most of the two plane rides saying that she missed Grandma and granddad. To make things even more exciting our flight from Queenstown was late and they had to delay our flight from Christchurch in order for us to catch it.
Dad:
Oh and I got to go skiing for a day! First time back on skis in something like 13 years… It was awesome… 10 years of race training hadn’t gone to waste although much fitness had…I was hard pressed to keep up with my Dad who skis 70 days a year, although I think I gave him a run for his money on our last run… Was a pity I didn’t get to ski with my brother, although things might have got a bit competitive (and he would have lost) 🙂
Snow Angels on hard packed snow don’t work very well… Especially if they are in the middle of a ski run.
Emily Skiing with Uncle Jeff
Samantha:
Had a good weekend with just Amanda having some 1 on 1 time and even slept in til 8am one morning while we were away (this is pretty much unheard of).
On Thursday she came down with something and after a couple of hours of not wanting to be put down we took her to the doctor where she immediately perked up and started playing with the toys in the waiting room. By the time we got to see the doctor she way pretty much fine and he couldn’t find anything wrong with her. So of course as soon as we got home (like 30 seconds after we got in the door) she threw up all over Amanda.
Today she seems back to herself but has passed it on to her sister (and possibly me).
I’m on a Log
Queenstown Stitch Panorama
It was a dark and gloomy day…
Looking out from a car park on Coronet Peak Ski Field onto the Wakatipu Basin with Queenstown in the gap in the right of the picture.
It pretty much was overcast whenever I went out to take pictures and about 6 hours after we flew out they had a snowfall that pretty much closed the whole of Queenstown down for a couple of days.
16 images stitched together
Nikon D70s, 18-70mm lens, ISO 200.
Darkhalide Photography 
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