I often get requests from students around the world to answer questions about how I run my art business, travel, etc. Recently one of those dropped into my IG inbox so I decided to record the answers as a vlog of sorts so that it is available for anyone in the future. I hope some of you find some value in it. 🙂
Know anyone who travelled to New Zealand and didn’t return with their gear? I might have stumbled across it! Check out the new newsletter for more on the story and maybe we can find out what actually happened. (Photo credit: Chris Watson)
Still working on the new Presets… soon, soon! This is my place here in New Zealand! I’m actually in the middle of selling it… I literally have no idea what I will do next. I feel drawn to Japan lately… maybe I’ll get a place there for six months or a year… or maybe even Scotland. I figure the universe will let me know. We seem to have pretty good communication lately, as you may be aware if you’ve read my latest book!
Another crisp autumn day invites another exploratory walk to a new destination. I’m incredibly fortunate to have so many diverse landscapes within easy walking distance of home. One of the things I treasure most about New Zealand is the sheer variety of trees, each species transforming into its unique autumn hues at slightly different times.
The mind can be such a strange thing. I was browsing my photos to find one to share today and was sure from the thumbnail that this was a drone shot but nope. Ground based Sony. You’d think, being I was there, that I’d remember that but no!
Day 1 of the hike brought us to this stunning spot. Pretty amazing, right? These mountaintop lakes are called tarns, formed when glaciers carve out small hollows in the landscape. Rain and snow replenish these tarns throughout the year, creating an extra element in these breathtaking scenes.
We were out at Bendemeer Estates to get some photos not long after it was beginning development and was pretty much wide open with huge tracts of land photograph. Soon after a big storm cell started to roll through the valley towards us. These are some of my favorite photography situations, mostly because they seem so unbelievable — this period when the bright sun is shining on the scene while an evil cloud, livid with storm, is making itself known for the immediate future.
The weather this day was all over the place, changing all the time but that made for some epic scenes on the road.
Captured while out gathering images that may make it into my a7CR review…
You might remember this Castle Hill area of New Zealand from the Lord of the Rings movies. I think they were in the Hobbit too. It’s so funny that I’ve been having a lot of synchronicities in my life lately. While I was on the plane from NZ to Costa Rica, I was working on this photo, and I could see the screen of the lady that was near my on the plane. When I looked up, it was the scene with the Fellowship was fighting all the Wargs.
