Every day the weather is quite different for our workshops. We never have a set plan about where to go each morning for sunrise… I usually wake up about 6 AM and start checking all the weather sites to see where the clouds will be, possible rain, and all this sort of thing. There’s still a certain amount of guesswork and reading the tea leaves. On this morning, I wasn’t 100% sure that going to the top of Coronet Peak would work out, but it did!

Moody Morning from Coronet Peak

Photo Information

---

• Date Taken2019-04-25 08:57:42
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/1600
• Aperture4
• ISO250
• Focal Length50.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

Here’s my friend David Maxwell from last week at the New Zealand Autumn Workshop. We visited The Hills golf club in Arrowtown to see all the sculptures there… this is the newest one, with a Maxwell for scale.

David Maxwell for Scale

Photo Information

---

• Date Taken2019-04-23 16:45:56
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/800
• Aperture4
• ISO50
• Focal Length105.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

This was one of the many fun stops we had during our Autumn workshop. I used to do four workshops with one for each season… that was a little too much, I think! I love teaching, but it does take a whole week out of my life… and I’m only one person! Anyway, I decided just to do one a year now… and do it in this beautiful Autumn season.

The Reflections of Glenorchy

Photo Information

---

• Date Taken2019-04-24 10:03:16
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/1000
• Aperture7.1
• ISO250
• Focal Length92.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

Here’s kind of a fun photo I took over near the lake and clubhouse at Jack’s Point in Queenstown, New Zealand. Usually, my landscape shots are quite wide and I rarely zoom in… but then I look at results like this and think I should do it more to add to that compression effect.

Jack’s Point

Photo Information

---

• Date Taken2019-07-21 02:09:27
• Camera
• Camera Make
• Exposure Time
• Aperture
• ISO
• Focal Length
• Flash
• Exposure Program
• Exposure Bias

I don’t even know what kind of plants these are, but they are quite beautiful. I was driving back from Picton to Queenstown, and I made as many side-stops as I could. I drove to the end of a random road near Blenheim and found this cool area… it was great from the ground level, but even more mesmerizing from the air.

The Red Fields of Blenheim

Photo Information

---

• Date Taken2019-05-06 16:58:19
• CameraFC2204
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/500
• Aperture2.8
• ISO200
• Focal Length4.4 mm
• FlashNo Flash
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

We usually take our workshop guests out here on the walk through the wetlands. Every time it’s completely different, but it’s always a guaranteed good photo or ten! On this particular morning, the wind and the lake were calm, leaving for a perfect reflection. The area around that pyramid-shaped mountain is called Paradise.

Walking along the boardwalks in Glenorchy

Photo Information

---

• Date Taken2019-04-24 10:05:10
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/1000
• Aperture7.1
• ISO250
• Focal Length49.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

At our workshop, we had a fabulous dinner here inside Kinross. It was one of my first nights drinking after about a two-week stint of not drinking after my 5MEO-DMT experience. That’s a longer story, but a great one! Anyway, I’m impressed I was able to get this clean photo and help instruct other people to do the same thing!

The Milky Way over Kinross

Photo Information

---

• Date Taken2019-04-24 21:48:05
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time30
• Aperture2.8
• ISO3200
• Focal Length16.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

When I look at these photos I took in Queenstown Gardens, it makes me wonder why I don’t walk around there every day, especially in the Autumn! It’s not actually that far from me… maybe 15 minutes. I guess one problem is parking. Parking in Queenstown is such a huge problem that I barely approach the CBD anymore… If I were in charge of counsel, I would subsidize Uber so that people could Uber around instead of leaving empty cars all over the city. There is nothing more inefficient than an empty car!

Queenstown Gardens in the Autumn

Photo Information

---

• Date Taken2019-04-23 09:55:41
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time0.5
• Aperture20
• ISO50
• Focal Length24.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias+2

We had a great workshop week a few weeks ago in the Autumn season. This is one of my favorite places to take people. It’s sort of a lay-up really. Everyone comes away with amazing photos… you have to be absolutely terrible to get a bad photo of this scene. It’s great fun to help people along and they get so excited by their photos!

Beautiful Queenstown During the Workshop

Photo Information

---

• Date Taken2019-04-25 08:58:44
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/800
• Aperture4
• ISO250
• Focal Length39.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias