Looking for spiders

August 02, 2014  •  Leave a Comment
Winter isn't the optimal time to be looking for creepy-crawlies in New Zealand. Even though expectations were low, I still wanted to try fine-tuning my nocturnal photography macro-rig. The problem seems to be finding some way to mount the small video light I have, along the central axis of the macro lens. This time I used rubber bands to attach it...
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Photography with Kodak Ektar

July 10, 2014  •  Leave a Comment
It is becoming a challenge to keep up the film photography, so last month aI made a concerted effort to get through one roll at least. This was also my first chance to shoot with the Kodak Ektar 100 film. This is reputed to scan well and to have a very fine grain. Not being able to find anyone in NZ who stocked it, I imported it from the US. The f...
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A winter visit to Waterfall Gully

June 28, 2014  •  1 Comment
Youngest child had a 'thing' on the Whangaparoa Peninsular on Saturday morning. So we ventured north at a pre-dawn hour to get him there in time. While he was engaged, I made a side trip to Shakespear Regional Park (yes, Shakespear is spelled without a final 'e'). There's a waterfall in the bush there. Usually it's not impressive as it doesn't get...
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Elephant poaching in decline

June 24, 2014  •  Leave a Comment
Ahead of the Standing Committee CITES meeting in July, a number of documents have been circulated. One is SC65-42-01. This is the report on the status of elephants, poaching levels and illegal trade. One of the monitoring mechanism for African Elephants is PIKE. This uses several indicator-sites through African range states to estimate the poachin...
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It's been raining

June 22, 2014  •  Leave a Comment
It still is. But I needed to photograph something this weekend. I've been head down, working on a lot of research projects of late, and the time to get out and decompress has been hard to find. Fortunately, one of the things that thrives in wet conditions, is fungi. So between showers on Sunday went out and tried my hand at it. The gear is the a90...
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