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Photography

Looking around Northland, and further afield, since 2011. The good ones you can take home.

2013

Photo, 31 Dec 2013My boy.My girl.Spotted in the garden, noisy bugger.Shearwaters, pretty interesting little fellas that travel *a lot* over the course of the year.Photo, 29 Dec 2013Didn't notice when I took the photo, but you can see a face in the rocks right?!?I forget the name of this cave, but the colors were magical.From inside the worlds biggest sea cave at the Poor Knights islands.Fuego.Photo, 26 Dec 2013Roll on summer.Kiwi kids.Yeah nah yeah.Can't wait to launch this puppy, has been really satisfying putting this one together.Photo, 14 Dec 2013Photo, 14 Dec 2013Photo, 13 Dec 2013Thursday morning, Tutukaka style. #whangarei #loveithereHurry up and charge dammit.Photo, 8 Dec 2013Photo, 8 Dec 2013Photo, 8 Dec 2013Photo, 7 Dec 2013Photo, 7 Dec 2013Photo, 7 Dec 2013Photo, 7 Dec 2013Photo, 6 Dec 2013Photo, 6 Dec 2013Last dolphin shot, I promise.Photo, 2 Dec 2013Photo, 30 Nov 2013Anyone know what type of bird this is?Photo, 30 Nov 2013I want this wee house. That's all.Photo, 30 Nov 2013Dolphins at Woolley's Bay, Whangarei - just epic this morning.Photo, 30 Nov 2013Photo, 28 Nov 2013Photo, 28 Nov 2013Tuesday night is putting on quite the show.Photo, 26 Nov 2013Photo, 26 Nov 2013Photo, 24 Nov 2013Photo, 24 Nov 2013Photo, 24 Nov 2013Photo, 23 Nov 2013Tonight's super clear sky, with a shooting star even.Photo, 22 Nov 2013The same image after doctoring it for 3hrs.Photo, 16 Nov 2013Love Matapouri. #newzealandKids having a ball at Matapouri, loving this beaut Saturday.First run of postcards printed and sold my first 200 in an hour :)Photo, 14 Nov 2013Photo, 12 Nov 2013Awesome Monday morning was had.Photo, 5 Nov 2013First canvases have arrived, stoked!@hippyk8 where art thou?#nbea13 cheers!Got the kids an Etch-a-Sketch from the US, they keep nagging me for a turn.Kids have for it pretty good here - white sand and estuary at the front gate.A steak and a Tiger, can't beat it.Photo, 20 Oct 2013Photo, 20 Oct 2013Full moon setting somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.Photo, 18 Oct 2013Photo, 17 Oct 2013@lodewijkschutte taking a schotte.Photo, 17 Oct 2013Photo, 14 Oct 2013Los Angeles.Avalon, on the way into LAX.Laters NZ, see you soon USA.Sneaky peek.Photo, 3 Oct 2013Photo, 3 Oct 2013Photo, 29 Sep 2013Photo, 28 Sep 2013Photo, 28 Sep 2013Photo, 28 Sep 2013Almost shit my pants.Photo, 23 Sep 2013Team New Zealand won (in my son's toy room anyway). #AmericasCup #teamNZKingfisher catching some Zs today in the garden.Photo, 8 Sep 2013My son writing a note to the tooth fairy.Photo, 31 Aug 2013I've got big one. Finally.Photo, 23 Aug 2013Photo, 23 Aug 2013Photo, 23 Aug 2013Photo, 22 Aug 2013Photo, 22 Aug 2013Photo, 22 Aug 2013Photo, 18 Aug 2013Photo, 18 Aug 2013Photo, 18 Aug 2013The cathedral in Christchurch, kapoot.Door reclaimed from the cathedral, with handwritten notes of earthquakes past.What's left of a building held up by shipping containers.Downtown Christchurch, still showing its scars after the 2011 earthquake.Mt. Cook — New Zealand's tallest mountain off in the distance.Photo, 14 Aug 2013Photo, 14 Aug 2013Photo, 14 Aug 2013Photo, 14 Aug 2013Photo, 14 Aug 2013Photo, 12 Aug 2013Photo, 12 Aug 2013Photo, 12 Aug 2013Photo, 12 Aug 2013Photo, 12 Aug 2013Speechless.Photo, 11 Aug 2013Photo, 11 Aug 2013Hammered the Queenstown luge track, so much fun.Lots of Keas hanging out eating cars at the top of Treble Cone, they're fracking huge.Photo, 10 Aug 2013Photo, 10 Aug 2013Photo, 10 Aug 2013Photo, 10 Aug 2013Epic.In a cloud sandwich.Glacier hunting.Photo, 9 Aug 2013Photo, 9 Aug 2013Franz Joseph is pretty.Since we got the full comprehensive insurance plan, we're covered - right?Photo, 7 Aug 2013Our trusty steed.Photo, 7 Aug 2013Photo, 7 Aug 2013Crazy waterfall tunnel thing we just drove through.Photo, 6 Aug 2013Meaut.Photo, 24 Jul 2013Photo, 21 Jul 2013Photo, 21 Jul 20137 years young and he's getting into it.Photo, 21 Jul 2013Photo, 20 Jul 2013Photo, 20 Jul 2013Darkest depths of winter and the ocean is like glass. Unbelievable.Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie.Mermaid Pools, Matapouri.Photo, 8 Jul 2013Antelope.Photo, 7 Jul 2013Photo, 7 Jul 2013Photo, 7 Jul 201316mm Fisheye with a 12mm extension. #macro #d600Photo, 5 Jul 2013Photo, 3 Jul 2013Photo, 3 Jul 2013Home sweet home.Photo, 1 Jul 2013Photo, 1 Jul 201330 second exposure tonight on the front lawn.Photo, 30 Jun 2013Photo, 30 Jun 2013Photo, 30 Jun 2013Photo, 30 Jun 2013Giving the deceased apple tree a Viking burial ceremony.Photo, 24 Jun 2013New Zealand Fantail, love these birds.Photo, 23 Jun 2013Photo, 23 Jun 2013Photo, 15 Jun 2013Photo, 14 Jun 2013Photo, 14 Jun 2013Shortest day next week, still looks like summer.Photo, 13 Jun 2013Photo, 13 Jun 2013Photo, 10 Jun 2013Photo, 10 Jun 2013Photo, 10 Jun 2013Photo, 9 Jun 2013Photo, 9 Jun 2013Photo, 7 Jun 2013My favorite thing about winter: Feeding fires.Photo, 2 Jun 2013Photo, 2 Jun 2013Last one for the day, what an epic day it was.Photo, 1 Jun 2013Photo, 1 Jun 2013Photo, 1 Jun 2013Photo, 1 Jun 2013A break in the clouds over Auckland today.@stevieg_83 recognize the lump near the ocean?Photo, 27 May 2013Photo, 26 May 2013Printed on A2 on an insanely good printer looks insanely good! Stoked!Photo, 21 May 2013Photo, 21 May 2013Photo, 20 May 2013Photo, 20 May 2013Photo, 19 May 2013Photo, 19 May 2013Photo, 18 May 2013Photo, 14 May 2013Photo, 14 May 2013Looking choice todayPhoto, 6 May 2013That's me, with my beard.Photo, 29 Apr 2013Photo, 28 Apr 2013Photo, 28 Apr 2013Photo, 27 Apr 2013Repost, Flickr munted the last one.Photo, 27 Apr 2013Battery can't charge fast enough on this new toy.It works, but I'm buggered if I can remember the password.Thirsty.Shelf 2.0Good morning Tutukaka.Essential apparatus.Take the Brit out of Britain, can't take the Britain out the Brit.Cooker 2.0View 2.0Daughter has passed out on the office floor.Photo, 14 Apr 2013Photo, 13 Apr 2013Photo, 13 Apr 2013Exploring some hidden treasures round these here parts.Hard to convey scale, but that Kingfish in the middle is about twice as big as the one I caught the other day...Photo, 12 Apr 2013Photo, 12 Apr 2013Photo, 12 Apr 2013Sunrise over the Poor Knghts islands.Good morning NgunguruSmoked kingfish!Frying a bit and smoking the rest. Yuuuuuuum.Holy shiiit!Photo, 9 Apr 2013Photo, 6 Apr 2013Photo, 5 Apr 2013Busy day.Photo, 3 Apr 2013Photo, 1 Apr 2013Weta crawling on my desk had me almost shit my pants.Photo, 30 Mar 2013Photo, 30 Mar 2013Photo, 27 Mar 2013Whangarei town basin was looking choice this morning.Photo, 24 Mar 2013Photo, 23 Mar 2013Teaching my 7 year old boy procedural programming.Photo, 19 Mar 2013Photo, 15 Mar 2013Photo, 14 Mar 2013Photo, 14 Mar 2013Photo, 9 Mar 2013Photo, 9 Mar 2013The kids round here have got it pretty good.I spy Perfect Day hiding out here, @hippyk8Mondays aren't too bad.Photo, 2 Mar 2013Built on ExpressionEngine.Very clever. Scanpan put their banding in reverse under the lid handle...A mate and I doing tandem skurfing on a paddleboard.Pinot Gris.New board, empty beach.Photo, 17 Feb 2013Crayfish for dinner. Lots of crayfish.Photo, 17 Feb 2013Love Fridays, when they're like this.Photo, 15 Feb 2013Photo, 14 Feb 2013Lunch break, surfing at Sandy's.Photo, 10 Feb 2013Photo, 9 Feb 2013Paying some respects to The Rainbow Warrior.Photo, 9 Feb 2013Photo, 9 Feb 2013Photo, 9 Feb 2013Photo, 7 Feb 2013Feb is my favorite month. Warm water, warm sun and hardly anybody around on the coast. Marvelous.Photo, 6 Feb 2013Photo, 5 Feb 2013Photo, 5 Feb 2013So exciting!Awesome day for the Luge, Rotorua. Kids having a ball!Photo, 30 Jan 2013Sending mum off with a meal up the Sky Tower. She's blown away.Photo, 28 Jan 2013Photo, 28 Jan 2013Photo, 28 Jan 2013Photo, 28 Jan 2013Introduced mum to a few of the locals.Photo, 27 Jan 2013Me.Photo, 24 Jan 2013Photo, 23 Jan 2013Photo, 23 Jan 2013Photo, 23 Jan 2013Photo, 23 Jan 2013Photo, 22 Jan 2013Photo, 22 Jan 2013Taking a break from the office, Tutukaka style.Me 12 years ago... Got a bit of work to do... Cough cough.Paddled from Ngunguru to Wellingtons Bay and pulled in to a deserted beach for a pit stop.Pulled out my CamelBak after ~10 years and the pine gum resin brings back a few memories of my intro to NZ - working in Photo, 12 Jan 2013Photo, 12 Jan 2013I'm not the only one enjoying this gin and tonic.Photo, 9 Jan 2013Photo, 9 Jan 2013Photo, 9 Jan 2013Photo, 7 Jan 2013Work? Yeah, nah.Photo, 7 Jan 2013Photo, 6 Jan 2013Photo, 6 Jan 2013Photo, 6 Jan 2013Photo, 6 Jan 2013Road trip.Photo, 5 Jan 2013Photo, 4 Jan 2013Photo, 3 Jan 2013Photo, 3 Jan 2013Awesome start to 2013. Gunning it behind the new boat :)