Posts tagged “Simon Burrow

Bike Track Jump Packing Down

The bike track across the road is still under construction and it seems that they are having problems packing down the bigger jumps.

Problem solved, just drive your car back and forth up and down them… This tactic seems to be working pretty well.

I am hanging out for them to be finished to go shoot some extreme air time… Rollei might have to give way to 7 frames a second F5 and 35mm Film 🙂

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.


Spray Artist on Cuba Street

This is where the low angle of the Rollei really comes into its own.

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.


Running Girl

On Cuba Street in the middle of a heavy downpour.

I saw her running across the mall from the money machine and totally thought I had fired the shot too early (possibly a little bit early) and missed her altogether. Film is great for surprises.

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.


Somes/ Matiu Island Lookout

As a family we went to Somes/ Matiu island in the Wellington harbour. The island has been used for many things from quarantine of both people and animals to internment for foreign nationals at time of war… It has a lighthouse which was built-in 1900 to replace the lighthouse built-in 1866 (images to come) and the remains of an anti-aircraft battery not to mention its a pest free zone so there are no rats or mice or other nasties so it is a safe haven for many of New Zealand’s endangered wildlife.

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford FP4+ 125 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.


Airport Tunnel

Pedestrian Tunnel to the car park at Wellington Airport

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Fuji Neopan 400 ISO Film, Canoscan 9000F Scanner.


2010 The Year that was…

Happy New Year to all!

Here is a quick breakdown of my first year (or not quite a year) of Blog action…

First Post on 03/03/2010

295 Posts since then

8140 Views

355 Comments

Top Post for 2010 : Wellington Zombie Walk followed closely by the other 2 posts about the Wellington Zombie Walk

Top Google search: Pigeon Houses

Top Referer: Facebook

My Favourite post: Hmmm kinda a hard one possibly Street Chess or Negative Space Portrait and the Zombie Posts

Most used Camera: Early year Nikon F5, Later in the year Rolleiflex

New Tattoos: None…

New Piercings: One

Bones Broken: None

Money made from Photography: (Not counting Assisting or working at a camera shop) Less than $1000 NZ

New Years Resolution: Shoot more and put together an exhibition

Let me know what you’ve liked, what you want to see more of and what you think sucked…

All in all a pretty good year…. Lookingf forward to 2011.

Peace out! 🙂


Scrap Yard Cars

These were all shot on Ilford Pan F+ 50 ISO Film, I really love the tonal range of this film… unfortunately after I had developed these and seen how good they were I went to work to stock up only to find that someone had bought all that was left in the fridge… How Rude! I have ordered more but unfortunately it comes from Australia and wont be here before the new year 😦 . I’m going to try pulling Ilford FP4 125 ISO film to 50 ISO and see what results that will give.

 

 

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford Pan F+ 50 ISO Film, Canoscan 9000F Scanner.


Traffic Photographer on Manners Street

Just after Manners Mall became a bus road this guy turned up for about a week… We initially thought he was there to catch buses that were running red lights but it turns out he was there to take images of cars going through the “Bus Only” section of the road, possibly to give them tickets.

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, Canoscan 9000F Scanner.


A Couple of Cemetery Half Frames

A couple more Half Frame panos, this time of a couple of different cemeteries.

The top image is from the cemetery overlooking the Terrace in Wellington and the other is at Karori Cemetery also in Wellington.


I Like how the top images have been run together on this one… It definitely adds a bit of atmosphere to the image.

Canon Demi, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, Canoscan 9000F Scanner.


From Darkness

Couple of shots from Staglands trip a couple of weeks ago…

 

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Fuji Neopan 400 ISO Film, Canoscan 9000F Scanner.


More Building Demolition

Another shot from the Lombard parking building looking across to a bit of demolition…

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, Canoscan 9000F Scanner.


Merry Christmas