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May 2025 : Monday
May 2025 : Monday
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May 2024 : Tuesday
May 2024 : Tuesday
Me, a Bottle of Wine, my Headphones and a Deserted Beach at Night
Daily Photo – Me, a Bottle of Wine, my Headphones and a Deserted Beach at Night
When you combine all of the above, this is the result…
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December 2023 : Sunday
Dec 2023 : Sunday
Extras
Daily Photo – Extras
Whenever I’m out on an assignment I always try to capture some varied shots that the client probably won’t choose. It’s always good to give them options though, and maybe force them to think about what they actually like/want. This is one such shot and is entirely different to the final selection that was made.
Passport Sunday – The Rolling Hills of Gisborne
Machine Elf 97 – The Seeding
Here’s the latest visual meditation based on the idea of seeding yourself and the universe while listening to a beautiful meditation from Mooji. I’m both a meditation nerd and a math nerd. As far as the math nerd goes, this is a combination of two different fractals in a hybrid. The fluid dynamics are thanks to the Surfmulti algorithm hybridized with one of the core mendelian formulas. Okay, nerd talk over. Enjoy the meditation… Wait till you see it in VR along with our dozens of other visual meditations!
Passport Sunday Reminder
It’s another Sunday, so another video unlock day for Passport Members! You’ll see today how and why I used three RAW files to make this image in Aurora HDR.
Improving the Dark Hill
In today’s video, you’ll see how I use Smart Tone to pull up some shadows and why I used RAW photos.
Exclusive content for Passport members
Daily Photo – The Rolling Hills of Gisborne
Man, New Zealand has about 100,000 of these perfect hills with nice reflections. It’s so overwhelming that sometimes you don’t know where to aim your camera. But that makes it kinda cool too… a challenge to find the best of the best.
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July 2021 : Monday
Jul 2021 : Monday
Along the coast in Gisborne
Daily Photo – Along the coast in Gisborne
I was lucky enough to spend about two weeks out there taking photos for a commissioned work. I don’t do a lot of commissions, but this one was pretty epic. I took about 1,000 photos and whittled it down to my favorite 10 to present. This one, in particular, was my favorite one, but it’s not the one they chose. It’s very interesting how people have slightly different tastes, and that’s all good.
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July 2021 : Saturday
Jul 2021 : Saturday
The Lagoons in Gisborne
Hilarious South Park Behind the Scenes
God these guys crack me up… This human centipede episode is one of the best. It’s really about automatically accepting all the Terms & Conditions on Apple products, where you really don’t know what you’re agreeing to.
Daily Photo – The Lagoons in Gisborne
It’s always a bit frightening to fly a quadcopter out over the ocean. I don’t know why. If it’s gonna fall out of the sky, it will be ruined anyway from this height. Anyway, whenever I am out over the ocean and shooting back towards the land, I’m on an even higher-alert.
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June 2021 : Wednesday
Jun 2021 : Wednesday
Monni at the Pond
Daily Photo – Monni at the Pond
While we were out on the farm, every day we’d hike to a different spot to grab photos. I thought this mountaintop tarn (is it a tarn?) looked pretty incredible and I asked Monni to go stand over there to give it some scale. I don’t often add people to photos, but I think it works really well here.
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June 2021 : Thursday
Jun 2021 : Thursday
Morning in the Bird Lagoons of Gisborne
Daily Photo – Morning in the Bird Lagoons of Gisborne
Most of the days in Gisborne were quite moody and full of rain, so as soon as there was a clear morning, I got out the quadcopter to see the beauty from above. On this farm, they created this sanctuary for all sorts of waterfowl. It was quite magical to walk around and hear all the native New Zealand birds going about their business on a calm morning.
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June 2021 : Tuesday
Jun 2021 : Tuesday
Morning Sunrise in Gisborne
Daily Photo – Morning Sunrise in Gisborne
Every morning we would head out to this beach along the coast of the north island of New Zealand to catch the sunrise. It was always calm and quiet, but the best sunrises seemed to come around after a cool morning rain shower.
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May 2021 : Monday
May 2021 : Monday
Milky Way Over the Bungalow
Daily Photo – Milky Way over the Bungalow
I went out around 1 AM one night to capture the Milky Way on a, particularly clear night. It was unbelievably beautiful. One of the key ideas I use when capturing space shots is to make sure there is something vaguely interesting in the foreground. Otherwise, it’s just kind of a shot of the stars… we’ve all seen those a million times, so I’ve grown to know it’s the context that makes it more interesting.
