Male cicadas are in a crazy frenzy of music making here at the moment. The official last day of summer…
Enough with the cabbage already
I spent this weekend at a photography meetup, held at a seaside community about three hours drive away from home. Without internet or…
B-Movie Masked Funtimes
The improvised Fringe show I’m a player in this year is Attack of the Killer B-Movie. Naturally a chance to use some…
Pensive baboon, yawning sun bear
This week’s mild obsession continues; playing with the IR modified camera. I know they’re more typically used for landscape-over-water shots, but…
Sand-blasted
Lyall Bay beach, on a day with weather warnings of up 100km winds for Wellington – normally there’s a metre…
A familar place made strange
I took the IR converted camera with me on an early morning walk, and this afternoon, with much help from the…
IR with Cheetahs
Update some days later! After an “ah hah” moment with photo processing for images from the IR camera today, I revisited my…
Caterpillar piehole-equivalent
Today I experimented some more using off-camera flash. My subject was a monarch caterpillar, and the photograph was taken on a Sony A7ii, using a…
Kingdom of the derp
Wandering round the local hillside zoo with a camera is pretty much the base of my fitness regime. Regular rambling suggests that the earlier…
Getting flash, on a small scale
One of the basic technical skills I’m trying to wrap my mind around at the moment is how to use…
A Little Art 