Someone had a bit of fun this car. Sorry that these are very contrasty, the sun was ultrabright today not ideal to take photos. plus the light meter in my d10 karked it today.

Don McLean Mountain has lovely views of Manukau harbour. Here you can see both sides of Manukau Heads, the Awhitu end and the Whatipu end. Just mind the maniacal kiwi drivers who drive 100 k/h on loose gravel, narrow gauge mountian roads!

What does a photographer do after New Years Celebrations, he groggily gets up with his last remaining bottle o’ grog and goes to the beach to take photos!

Below are some photographs I took New Years morning with my bottles of Lindemans, a fine Aussie wine and excellent subject matter. I ended up topping over my glass of red (what else do ya expect) and even took a few photos. As I was about to leave mr. new years rainbow appeared as well!

This is a completely different rainbow… I didn’t even realise this was on the flash card until I downloaded it! This was done with a self timer – This is me & me favorite glass ‘o lindy’s 🙂

These photos were taken on Boxing Day 2004. The last image is black & white but I left the fern on the water in colour to try to make it more interesting. I usually don’t do such things but its probably just a one-off time that I play around with black & which and colour in the same photograph.

Christmas day Zoe, Ash and myself went to Whatipu for a bit of a tramp. We somehow managed to wrangle a 1 tramp to a 4 hour odessey in which we decided to go from the cliffs directly to the ocean… needless to say that never happened! We had to backtrack after getting stuck in the marsh full of briars and thorny gorse! Here are a few pics from the day: