A Rose in Tears

From Garden 4 - Blenheim

Pink Rose Taken on the Blenheim Garden Tour

Make: Canon
Model: EOS 20D
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/500 sec
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 100mm
Flash Used: No

Pond Willow

Taken on Garden Tour in Blenheim, New Zealand

Make: Canon
Model: EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/400 second
F Number: F/5.6
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Nov 7, 2008

Into the Petals

Taken on the Blenheim 'Hunters Garden Marlborough' Tour

Make: Canon
Model: EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/250 second
F Number: F/4.5
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Nov 7, 2008

Pond Reflections

Make: Canon
Model: EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/500 second
F Number: F/6.3
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Nov 7, 2008,

Reflection of my friends in Blenheim on Garden Tour

New Zealand Kingfisher

Honours A Grade
North Shore Photographic Society
25th February, 2009

Make: Canon
Model: EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/60 second
F Number: F/2.8
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Jan 6, 2008

Native to New Zealand

Pink Clematis

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/250 second
F Number: F/5.0
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Nov 7, 2008

Taken in Blenheim on the Garden Tour.

New Zealand Gannet

Honours - A Grade
North Shore Photographic Society
25th February, 2009


About Gannets:
* Wingspan up to 180 cm
* Overall length 90 cm
* A single egg is laid around September/October/November
* Incubation time about 44 days
* Chicks stay in the colony until February/March
* The birds then migrate to Australia, returning after 2-6 years
* it is said that (after weeks of furious flapping of wings on land) the first flight of the juvenile birds takes them to their destination more than 2000 km away.

Make: Canon
Model: EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/60 Sec
ISO: 100
Fnumber: 5.6
Focal Length 100mm

Rose Dew

Taken on the Blenheim 'Hunters Garden Marlbourough' Tour

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/500 second
F Number: F/7.1
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Nov 11, 2008

The Richmond Ranges

Storm Over The Richmond Ranges

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/125 second
F Number: F/7.1
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Nov 6

Blenheim, New Zealand

Primary Colours

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/200 second
F Number: F/9.0
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Nov 6, 2008

Kayak's ready to go.

New Zealand Morepork

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/60 second
F Number: F/2.8
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Jan 6, 2008,

The morepork is a dark brown owl with buff coloured bars on its chest and underparts and large yellow eyes set in a dark facial mask.

Being nocturnal, they feed at night, mainly on large insects like weta, cicadas, moths, huhu beetles, and other night flying insects. They also eat spiders, mice, small rats and small birds. Any indigestible material is dropped from the daytime perch and collects on the forest floor.

The morepork has a variety of calls, calling mainly at night and starting at dusk. The familiar call is a very clear ‘more-pork’ which carries through a still night and can be heard a long way off. They screech a repeated ‘cree’ when hunting.

Breeding is between September and February and the nest can be virtually anywhere. It could be found on the ground, sheltered behind rocks or in a petrel burrow, or high up in the hollow of a tree or branch. Sometimes in epiphytes or in a cabbage tree. The eggs are incubated solely by the female for 20 – 30 days and the young moreporks fledge about 35 days after hatching.

This little baby fell out of its nest and is being looked after by bird rescue, and will be rehabilitated as soon as possible.

Christmas Candles

Make: Canon
Model: EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/30 sec
Fnumber: 5.6
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 46mm

Taken at the Christmas Tour in Blenheim

The Clansman Pub

Scottish Pub, Havelock, New Zealand

Make: Canon
Model: EOS 20D
fnumber: 9
Focal Length: 22mm
ISO: 100
HDR

Havelock Countryside

Make: Canon
Model: EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/200 sec
F-stop: F9
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 21mm

The Abandoned Lot II - reworked

To get this image look like this, I started with the original and did a fake HDR by taking one image, and adjusting the exposures 3x to make a -2, 0 and +2 exposure. I then took it into Photomatix and combined them, and used the tonemapping function with a high light smoothing.

You can see the original HDR here..

Took this back into photoshop and converted it to black and white. Added some red poppies from another old image I had and placed them into the black and white image.

I then copied the colour hdr image into the black and white image, lowered the opacity sightly to about 70%, then Adjusted the overlay using colour burn. Desaturated the poppies slightly and here is the finished result.

The Abandoned Lot

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/40 Sec
Exposure Program: Manual
F-Number: f11
ISO: 100
Focal length: 47mm

Philadephia Exchange

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/160 sec
Exposure Program: Manual
F number: f11
ISO 100
Focal length: 27mm
Date taken: 10 July, 2008

Philadelphia Exchange, Greek Revival Architecture, HDR, USA

Historic Philadelphia - The First Bank of the United States

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec
Exposure Program: Manual
F Number: f/11
ISO 100
Focal length: 18mm
Date taken: 10th July, 2008

The Eyes Have It!

Endangered Lemur at Philadelphia Zoo, Endangered House, USA

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/60 Sec
F Number: F5.6
Focal Length: 180mm
ISO: 400
Flash - Fired
Date Taken: 9th July, 2008

Curves

Pink Flamingo, Taken at Auckland Zoo

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/320 second
F Number: F/6.3
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Date Picture Taken: Sep 1, 2006,

Yoga on the Beach

This was just a 'shot' of my daughter and my friend doing yoga on the beach last year. I had taken a few shots for panoramas, so when I asked the panorama program to look into that directory to see what could be stitched together, it chose this, stitching two photos together in an overlay, making it look like a double exposure.

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/1250 Sec
F Number: F11
Focal Length: 300mm
Flash: Did not fire
Date Taken: 20th Jan, 2007.
Software Used: Autopano Pro

A Country Morning

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/500 second
F Number: F/13.0
Focal Length: 42 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Jul 18, 2007,

Taken in Northland, New Zealand

Pygmy Marmoset - Worlds Smallest Monkey

Taken in Philadelphia Zoo.

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/60 second
F Number: F/6.3
Focal Length: 110 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Date Picture Taken: Jul 10, 2008

34th & Wallace

Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/400 second
F Number: F/13.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Date Picture Taken: Jul 10, 2008, 5:38:52 AM

Taken in Philadelphia, Manuta Districte

Comments:
I love how people in Philadelphia dress up their bulidings. Makes the city feel alive and colourful :)

Edible Fangs

American Prairie Dog, Taken at Philadelphia Zoo.


Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/500 second
F Number: F/8.0
Focal Length: 255 mm
ISO Speed: 320
Date Picture Taken: Jul 10, 2008, 3:50:00 AM

Summer in San Francisco

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/800 second
F Number: F/9.0
Focal Length: 53 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Jul 30, 2008,

Would you like a glass of Sauvignon Blanc?

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Focal Length: 45mm
Shutter Speed: 1/60 Sec
F number: 5.6
ISO: 100
Flash: Did fire

Critically Endangered Amur Leopard

Only about 30 to 35 of these animals left in the world. Is there hope?

Please visit Wildlife Alliance to learn about these animals and do what you can to help.

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/60 sec
F Number: 5.0
Focal Length: 160mm
ISO: 400
Flash: Yes
Date Taken: July 9th, 2008.

Critically Endangered Doucs Langur

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/60 second
F Number: F/5.6
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Date Picture Taken: Jul 10, 2008, 5:01:19 AM

Critically Endangered Redshanked Doucs Langur.
Taken at Philadelphia Zoo in the Endangered Wildlife House

Power to the People

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter speed: 1/800 sec
F Number: 22
Focal Length: 25mm
ISO: 400
Date Taken: July 9th, 2008


Philadelphia Power Station

Lady of the House

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/640 sec
F Number: F18
Focal length: 28mm
ISO: 400
Date Taken: 9 July, 2008

HDR taken in Philadelphia in the Mantua District, USA

Gone to the U.S.A.

The Wave

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/400 second
F Number: F/7.1
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Jan 15, 2008, 1:33:49 PM

Chicago Winter

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/500 second
F Number: F/16.0
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Date Picture Taken: Feb 22, 2006, 8:32:33 AM

Icy Pier in Chicago.

Fire & Ice

Highly Commended - North Shore Photographic Society 2008
Acceptance - National competition - NS Salon of Photography 2007

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/500 second
F Number: F/14.0
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Date Picture Taken: Mar 2, 2006, 6:32:33 AM

Taken in Quebec City, Canada

New York Shadowplay

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/400 second
F Number: F/14.0
Focal Length: 25 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Date Picture Taken: Mar 9, 2006, 5:59:58 AM

New York City from Central Park.

The Dentists Delight

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/250 second
F Number: F/5.6
Focal Length: 190 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Date Picture Taken: Feb 17, 2008, 1:45:24 PM

Happy Feet

Pied stilts in volcanic water

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/800 second
F Number: F/10.0
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Date Picture Taken: Sep 4, 2006, 12:06:09 PM

Pied Stilts in Volcanic water, Rotorua, New Zealand

Single Parent Family

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/2 second
F Number: F/11.0
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Date Picture Taken: Jun 10, 2007, 5:45:38 PM

Taken for the 'Round Things' project

Australian Water Dragon

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/250 second
F Number: F/5.6
Focal Length: 250 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Date Picture Taken: Sep 14, 2006, 4:01:17 PM

Seagull in Flight

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/500 second
F Number: F/7.1
Focal Length: 210mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Taken: Jan 23, 2008 6:52:12pm

In flight, Devonport, New Zealand

Twins

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/640 second
F Number: F/8.0
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Date Picture Taken: May 20, 2007, 10:57:21 AM

Taken on Lake Hakanoa, Huntly, New Zealand

Dinner for Two

Highly Commended North Shore Photographic Society

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/500 second
F Number: F/8.0
Focal Length: 230 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Date Picture Taken: Mar 5, 2006, 8:08:08 AM

Washington DC Squirrels, USA

I Spy

Make: Canon
Model: Canon PowerShot Pro1
Shutter Speed: 1/501 second
F Number: F/4.0
Focal Length: 12 mm
Date Picture Taken: Jul 31, 2005, 1:26:59 PM

Wasp on Grivillea at Taronga Zoo.

Whitianga Estuary

HDR


Model: Canon 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/50 second
F Number: F/16.0
Focal Length: 30 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Whitianga Estuary, Early Morning, New Zealand

Wannabe Biker

HDR - Metadata unavailable as has been put through HDR process.

The Sun

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 16/10 second
F Number: F/32.0
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Date Picture Taken: Jun 22, 2008, 10:21:35 AM

A Fervent Plea

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/125 second
F Number: F/5.0
Focal Length: 140 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Date Picture Taken: Jun 19, 2007, 4:04:51 PM

Meercat at Auckland Zoo - cocaine sniffer?

Last of the Golden Rays

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/60 second
F Number: F/14.0
Focal Length: 22 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Aug 3, 2007, 6:16:22 PM

Tahananui Beach, Nelson, New Zealand

Wharariki Arch

Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/250 second
F Number: F/11.0
Focal Length: 48 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Aug 1, 2007, 5:52:41 PM

Wharariki Arch, Wharariki Beach, South Island, New Zealand