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