Alive
Daily Photo – Alive
One of my favorites from the Earth’s Landscapes Alive collection over on FND… where it’s animated. 🙂
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December 2021 : Saturday
Dec 2021 : Saturday
Alive. New Zealand.
Daily Photo – Alive. New Zealand.
There is a cool tree that grows out of the water here. When things are calm, sometimes there are these nice little ripples that come by while the ducks swim around… serene.
From the new NFT drop on Foundation.
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November 2021 : Wednesday
Nov 2021 : Wednesday
Thinking of Wanaka
Daily Photo – Thinking of Wanaka
I’m headed over to Wanaka soon for a mini-road trip! Last time I was there, this tree was hibernating for the winter… now that it is finally springtime, I expect to see some leaves on here! Watch my dumb insta stories to see…
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August 2021 : Thursday
Aug 2021 : Thursday
Mini-Island in Wanaka
Daily Photo – Mini-Island in Wanaka
I flew my drone out as far as I could to get this image. I think you can go camping out here at night… that sounds incredibly fun and romantic. I’d love to give it a try. That reminds me I need to get all new camping gear because the stuff I have kinda sucks.
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April 2019 : Tuesday
Apr 2019 : Tuesday
Free Camping in New Zealand
Intro to Photography Video
Today’s photo was one of the locations where we shot for the Newest Photography Tutorial! Here’s a preview of it!
Daily Photo – Free Camping in New Zealand
This is a cool hut we found on a mountain in Wanaka. I think it’s called the Bob Lee Hut. We were up here shooting a segment for the video you see above… one amazing thing about NZ is that there are about 1,000 of these huts scattered all over New Zealand and they’re all free or at least a very low price! I think this one was $30. Yeah, people just bring their own sleeping back and snacks and camp out inside. I think this one slept about 12, but there were only three of us this night. Everyone is also very good at cleaning up after themselves… I’ve never seen a mess left behind.
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March 2019 : Monday
Mar 2019 : Monday
Sunset in Wanaka
The Quantum Garden
I found this on Reddit and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I wish he was selling them or something! He just built it for a fun project… If I had one, I have no idea where I would put it… It might be fun on the front door.
Daily Photo – Sunset in Wanaka
This is one of my favorite sunset situations… pastel pink clouds on top of a pastel blue sky. When I see this, it reminds me that I need to get over the hill more often to Wanaka. It’s only an hour away, so I really have no excuse!
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July 2018 : Wednesday
Jul 2018 : Wednesday
Love Heart Island
New Luminar Tip Video
Grab the new Luminar here and get cracking with some of these hot tips! In today’s video, I show how to use “LUTs” which stands for “Look Up Tables” – I find this to be a very geeky acronym that mostly just confuses people. Despite its geekiness, it’s quite fun and powerful!
Daily Photo – Love Heart Island
Here’s that little island that sits in the middle of Lake Wanaka. From the shore, it looks like a little perfect fairy island… a perfect little secret island to go have some adventures on. It also looks like you could swim out to it, except you’d defo die from hypothermia in transit. I think people are always surprised when they visit the South Island at how cold the water actually is. Some people are really into swimming in cold water, but I think those people might be kinda crazy.
There’s another quirky thing about New Zealand (this might be the case in Aussie as well). Anyway, you know that “heart” shape that we use to describe the shape that is, well, a heart? Well the Kiwis call it a “love heart” shape. I think that’s kind of a nice quirky thing about it… now my little girls say that, and sometimes even with a Kiwi accent!
That Tree in Warm Light
That Tree in Wanaka
I believe this famous tree actually has it’s own hashtag. Try clicking on #ThatTreeInWanaka in Instagram to see many different versions of it!
Daily Photo – That Tree in Warm Light
Here’s one of my latest iterations of the tree. I used one of our Lightroom Presets for this one in particular. Thanks again to everyone out there that has been enjoying these presets… been working on a few more, but none quite ready for release yet!
Aurora Over the Valley
Aurora Borealis
Despite four trips to Iceland, I’ve never seen the northern lights! I’ve tried countless times… but on my list is to go up either there or Norway next winter to see them for sure!
Daily Photo – Aurora Over the Valley
I was driving home from a photo event from over the hill in Wanaka and I got to the edge of the crown range and saw this. So beautiful! The Aurora Australis is just incredible. In fact, when I got home, we got the whole family out on the deck on bean bags to watch it wash over us. So pretty and mesmerizing!
Ascending Mount Aspiring
Everest
I still have not seen that movie. I understand it gets a little serious, to say the least. I almost took the kids to see it then someone warned me against that!
Daily Photo – Ascending Mount Aspiring
Well, I ascended it by air, which was much more civilized. I am so impressed by these mountain climbers that do it for real. Those are real dudes for sure… There’re a lot of mountains here in New Zealand that are huge destinations for serious mountain climbers. I understand there are a few extra challenges here because of the ice, snow, and glaciers… I know people die all the time trying to climb Mount Cook, which is not too far away from this one… those guys have some balls! (and some frozen ones!)
