25th of April is ANZAC day in New Zealand. I wandered down to Leeston for the local parade as I normally do and as well as taking our Daughter down so she could march with the Girl Guides I dragged the camera along for the ride. There’s nothing spectacular about that at all, I’ve taken the camera along to a number of …

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I don’t know about where you live, but here the sun sets pretty much every day. Granted it sometimes does so behind a veil of grey or in the total absence of cloud it just disappears without the slightest hint of pomp and ceremony. We are blessed, however, here in Canterbury with a reasonable number of stunning …

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This is my first posting to the new blog about photography, so my apologies to anyone who’s started following this site on the assumption that I blabber on about SEO and marketing related topics all the time. (Gallery down below, re-posted from my old blog but I lost the places for the photos inline. 🙂 ) I commute to …

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Covering bike speedway for the paper a couple of weeks ago, and got this cool shot. "Close racing action in the first turn at Moore Park on Sunday as Martin Emmerson of England, Andrew Alridge of Halswell and Craig Ramsey from Hastings all jostle for position in the fourth A grade heat of the Robin Mackinnon …

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Last weekend I made my way out the England vs South Island polo match round behind Wigram. I'm not actually a 'horsey' person as a rule, although I did once feed one some grass, so that's close enough. This is the second time I've been to the polo, and I'd have to say I'm firmly of the opinion that it's a minority …

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Well, I was at the races today, doing that thing I do, pointing the camera at random objects and then trying to figure out what it was I just snapped, and hoping it knows what it's own name is... Then I had this cunning plan, to get a photo of the race caller in his box, with the race course in the background, …

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