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Showing posts with label Christchurch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christchurch. Show all posts

Watch Out for Those Judder Bars!

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Posted on 9:56 PM | By AB | In , , , ,

Have we kept you in suspense since our last video entry?

A few weekends ago we headed 4 hours north of Dunedin to Christchurch which is the biggest city on the South Island. The city is very different then Dunedin in many ways, a much busier larger city with a vibrant nightlife. We enjoyed a Rugby match and cheered with the home fans of the Canterbury Crusaders, walked in the autumn colors of the city, and as usual took plenty of photos:)

On the way home from Christchurch we stopped in a little town where you can actually feel like you are walking the streets of the 1860's. Omarau's limestone and marble buildings are left pretty much untouched from the gold rush in NZ...a photographer's dream? (or so Dev said)

The weather has defiantly made a turn in the fall/winter direction in the last few weeks. We have spent our rainy days trying out new hobbies like knitting, model building, painting and most recently Devon has bought a guitar. We have defiantly had our share of beautiful sunny days too. We have been beach walking, hiking and exploring the town!

I guess the big news lately is that I have a job!!! I am working as a respiratory research nurse for the University of Otago. The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit has been running a study now for almost four decades...Check it out: Wikipedia Article

THE HAIRCUT:)

Devon has embarked on his latest endeavor by trying to become a lead guitarist for a Bruce Springsteen tribute band.

Trying to stay warm with no central heating:(







Holy - Where did Feburary go?

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Posted on 11:04 PM | By Wallace | In , , ,

It feels like it was only last week I wrote about modeling my first tooth, checking out Baldwin Street and chillin' with Colin - time is just flying by! Well, since then I have started my first animated video, moved into my new digs up in Roslyn and taken a road trip to Christchurch.

I've finally got internet at home now, so I am updating the blog from my sofa with a beer in one hand while watching Nitro Circus! Creativity isa justa flowing!

Well, I thought I'd test out Google's Picasa photo service.. I've gotta say it wasn't the fastest thing, as it took nearly 30 minutes to upload just 15 photos.. So here are the 15 photos that I managed to upload before I got bored and stopped:



I went up to Christchurch with Stacy the a few weeks ago to check out Avatar again and to do a bit of sightseeing along the way. On Saturday night we found a spot on the side of a rural road somewhere on the Banks Peninsula to set up a tent. Once I got my tent up I decided to stay up and take some time laps shots of the sky. It was just my luck, I found the southern rotation axes at which the stars rotated around.. Unfortunately my batteries ran out before I could get a the perfect shot with super long exposure. I think these will do for now though!

This was my first photo:
The sky was so clear, I hadn't seen the sky like that in a very long time. The Milky Way was so bright, and the cool part was that I didn't recognize any of the constellations - it was like I was in a different part of the world! It was only Orion's Belt I was able to pick out.

Details: ISO 200, f-stop 3.5, exposure 10 minutes













And by the time I was starting to dial in the exposure and the framing in my batters ran out.. At the same time it had taken me almost an hour and a half to get it to this stage as each test shot I increased the exposure time. This shot was achieved sometime around 2am.

Details: ISO 200, f-stop 3.5, exposure 30 minutes
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