I took the opportunity to drive away this weekend. Due to work, I hardly have anytime to take photos, much less take photos. I took my camera along just incase I would see anything interesting - but I was mainly just to got out of Auckland for a few hours.
Once again I came across a unique ‘creation’ whilst walking on Sunset beach in Port Waikato. This time someone put on a pair of orange gloves on a piece of driftwood. A few months early the beach was littered with several pairs of orange gloves and now some took the liberty to fit them on a piece of driftwood.

The resulting pictures were as follows:

This photo was taken in 2005. I’ve taken several shots of this chair in my Port Waikato photos section, this one actually isn’t there (though its in the banner of my www.portwaikato.com website). I’ve re-cropped the pic and have added it here for all to see.

Fresh quadbike tracks on Sunset Beach - Port Waikato.

A bit of ambient light and rain clouds forming in the background here:

Yep thats right. Ok, i did do a wedding shoot in February (don’t even think about asking me about that!) but I haven’t done any of ‘my kind’ of photography for 11 months. So its perfectly fitting that I return to Port Waikato to take some pics - the last place I took ‘my kind of shots’.

Honestly, I didn’t miss not shooting much. I am quite a busy lad with my business and photography is just something I’ve always done for fun.

My sister and her husband paid a visit to New Zealand so I took them along to one of my favourite spots. And of course the place didn’t disapoint. Here are a few of my efforts:

When I first came across the seal in the last photograph, I thought it was dead. Its ears had been worn away, there were flies all over it and no sign of breathing. We came across it later upon our return - it was not dead but breathing very heavily.

A passerby in their infinite wisdom wanted to confort the seal by petting it. It jerked back its head quickly. Luckily no one was bitten, but the seal look quite agitated as it wheezed for air. It came in for a rest from the sea, or more likely by the condition it was in, to die on the shores.

Here’s your answer: because I want to. Yes, as you can imagine, this is the formost question I get all the time from email and the such.

Yes there countless beautiful landscapes here. Indeed, there are also countless numbers of incredible New Zealand nature photographers. If you want New Zealand photographers who do pure landscape photography - there are plently of photographers who are much better than I - you have no trouble finding them on Google.

This site is reflection of how I see the world. Sometimes its beautiful and pristine. Sometimes its messy. And sometimes its a combination of the two.

My photoblog - which I took offline at the beginning 2006 - is now back thanks to Wordpress! For those following - my previous blog was spammed to do death by a cornicopia of porn, get rich quick, search engine optimisation and hotelier ads. I chose wordpress because supposedly it has some great spam blocking features. We shall see! Feel free to leave your comments now!