Have just added a Fly Fishing Portfolio to my website and also uploaded 71 new fly fishing images to the New Zealand Fly Fishing Stock Gallery.
Have been processing some waterfall images today but I’m not sure about my processing.
McLean River Waterfall, Catlins, New Zealand. Canon 5D with a 17-40 mm f/4L @ 17 mm. ISO 100. 3 exposures combined in Photomatrix Fusion @ f/11. Polariser. Click the image for a larger view.
While it was taken on an overcast day the contrast in the scene was to great for the sensor so I decided to bracket the exposures. Normally I’d hand blend the exposures but at the moment I don’t have access to Photoshop and was interested to see what sort of a job Photomatrix Fusion would do with this type of scene.
Does it look natural to you? Would be great to get your opinion.
Posted December 7th, 2010. Add a comment
The processing continues…here are some fly fishing images that I processed over the last couple of days
The fisherman is great friend of mine and the river that we were fishing is in a remote area in the north west corner of the South Island.
It was all sight fishing for brown trout…
average size was around 2-2.5 kgs…
and boy did they fight, some of the hardest fighting trout that I have ever encounter.
Gorgeous gin clear water, sunny days and good company…
and awesome fishing…
can’t wait to go back!!
Posted December 5th, 2010. 1 comment
From the same morning as the previous post. The weather had started clearing a little and just after sunset the sun bust through an opening in the clouds forming a ‘Jacobs Ladder’, a form of crepuscular rays.
Canon 5D with the 17-40mm f/4L @ 40mm. ISO 100. 3 exposues blended @ f/11. Click image to see a larger more detailed version.
Posted December 1st, 2010. Add a comment
Now that the days are getting very short here in Norway I’m starting to use the the “hours of darkness” to make a start on processing a rather large backlog of images (I can’t put it off any longer 
) and I thought it would be fun to share some of these images on the blog as they come off the processing line.
So to kick things off here’s an image from 2006 (yes 2006!!), taken during a three month trip around New Zealand. It was spring (early October) and the weather was fairly unsettled, which is very typical for that time of the year. I was up well before sunrise scouting around for compositions. It was very cold and windy with rain squalls coming in frequently but during breaks from the rain I was able take a few frames before I’d have to shelter the camera and lens from the rain again and try and prevent myself from being blown off a rather high cliff 
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Nugget Point (Ka Tokata) Lighthouse at dawn, rain sweeping in from the horizon, Otago, New Zealand. Taken with a Canon 5D with the 17-40mm f/4L @ 20mm. ISO 200. 5 sec @ f/11. Click the image to see a much larger version, with better detail.
The image was taken about 30 minutes before sunrise, with rain sweeping across the horizon.
The area takes its name from the wave-eroded rock stacks or islets, which bear some resemblance to gold nuggets. The islets were formed from sedimentary rock lid down under the sea. Over geological time they have been uplifted and tilted so that the sedimentary layers are now vertical stripes.
The Maori name, Tokata, applies to the headland and islets as a whole. In former times Tokata was an important seafood gathering site (shellfish, fin fish, sea birds and kelp), and a landmark for coastal travelers.
The headland attracts a diversity of marine life because it is close to productive feeding grounds. Nugget Point is the only place on the mainland where New Zealand fur seals, New Zealand (Hooker’s) sea lions and southern elephant seals coexist. There are colonies of yellow-eyed penguins and blue penguins and breeding populations of several other seabird species.
The lighthouse was built in 1870 and originally powered by oil. In 1949 the oil lamp was replaced with an electric one and a diesel generator which was subsequently removed when the lighthouse was connected to the mains grid. In 1989 the light house become fully automating and is now managed from Wellington.
Posted November 29th, 2010. Add a comment
Sorry for being a bit quiet recently. Have been busy processing my rather large back log of images and generally just tidying up my image library with keywords and image captions.
Haven’t had much chance to get out and about with the camera, except in our basement were I continue to photograph our little winter flatmates – the house mouse !! Using my Phototrap I finally got the leaping shot that I was after and now I’m trying for a more front on image.
Since the mice have been only coming at night I decided that it was more appropriate to have a black background, showing the mice using the cover of darkness while they search for food.
House Mouse (Mus musculus) jumping at night in its search for food, Norway.
Posted March 4th, 2010. 7 comments
