The Otago Peninsula

The Otago Peninsula and the Otago Harbour is the home to an abundance of magnificent wildlife.  Daybreak sees the fishing boats heading out to sea during the summer months  with The Royal Albatross nests out on Taiaroa Heads.

We now offer….

…photography based workshops.  After a considerable amount of humming and harrring we have finally worked out a good plan we are both happy about.  These workshops are aimed to educate and inspire.  To see more about these then please read the top of this page under ‘Workshops’.

We’ll also be sponsoring one up and coming, or just wants to give it a crack, young photographer or maybe a ‘new’ photographer of any age, on every second workshop. We both feel that photography is just as much about what we can do to help the art form, than just trying to help ourselves. We hope to have it all in place when we have a schedule sorted out for the workshops themselves by mid February.

Stephen

And here is a few shots from the area the workshops are held (just to get your taste buds wet)….

Glenorchy

Now this is a place, well past Queenstown, up a bugger of a road, but not close to the worst I’ve seen here. Slow and winding, but then there is some stops to be made on the way with the camera….

There is the road past here to a place called ‘Paradise’, no really, that is what it’s called. About a 15-20 minute drive (without photo stops).
Native bush on one side and horses on the other, Tony spent some time there trying to get a shot (with the camera) of those dam horses for a friend of his. It was so funny, Tony gives up and the horses come running, he turns and tries to shoot, their gone! I was near rolling in the grass with laughter as it happened time after time. It still has me smiling. But I’m like that

Anyway, a photo of those horses, they came wandering over for a look when I was up there for sunrise the next morning, probably thinking “this fool is back here AGAIN (better go see if he has a carrot)”

Tony's friend's

After all the enjoyment (for me) of the horses at the end of the day we got a sunset right at Glenorchy, the local wharf where the Ernslaw (an old coal fired steam ship) ties up when she is around.

Glenorchy is a well out of the way spot for me, at around a six hour drive from my home, and that is so long as I don’t have to many photo stops, I don’t go there much. I just wish I had a lot more time for this place. But I did find a beautiful small lake reflecting the mountains, and a gorgeous little waterfall all of a foot or two high……

Moeraki Boulders

A beautiful place, a frustrating place, a place with so many photos in such a small area, a place I’m drawn to time and again. A place I don’t think can ever be boring because it can change so much so fast.

 

Church Of The Good Shepherd

Well I meet up with Tony at Tekapo and all is good. Plenty of photography going on and getting final details worked out for our tours. The weather wasn’t particularly good to us but we still got there with some great photos along the way.

The Church Of The Good Shepherd, Tekapo, New Zealand.

The photos keep coming.

Well the photos have been coming thick and fast. Luckily the tourist season hasn’t taken off yet so we have had a good go at getting some of the shots we we’re both after.

I managed to get up to Mt John Observatory for some star gazing. Simply amazing. Very informative with a great chance to get some photos, also a big learning curve for me. Nothing like a challenge to get you thinking about the best way to go about things, I loved it.

I hope to get some photos up soon.

Cheers

Stephen

Another photography tour for us.

It’s been fickle weather here for photography in the last few days but you can get that with photography.  I got a new lens and just can’t get out there to get any photo’s with it.

Tony is away tomorrow night (Monday) to the head of lake Tekapo, he should be in for a treat with it still snowing up there. I imagine some great photographs coming out of this when the weather clears.

Next Sunday I’m meeting up with Tony to shoot the church of the good shepherd.  From there we’re off to Wanaka then Queenstown for three days of photography and finalizing some itinerary bits and bobs for the photographic tours.

Cheers

Stephen