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Magazine Covers
Nice surprise for me this week to see two of my roaring red stag photos being used on the cover of two magazines; one here in Norway and other in New Zealand. Still get a buzz from seeing my work being published.
New Zealand Guns and Hunting Magazine Cover March/April 2012
Jakt Magazine Cover March 2012
My second week in New Zealand was split between a trip down south to the Tekapo/Mt Cook area and a fly fishing trip with my father and brother-in-law from England.
MOUNT COOK/TEKAPO
Meet up with my long time friend and photographer Ross Curtis (Kea Images) for this trip. Our plan was to hopefully photograph Mt. Cook/Aoraki (New Zealand’s highest mountain at 3754 metres) from various vantage points and if time permitted to also photograph some Australasia Crested Grebes on a nearby lake.
However the weather forecast wasn’t looking great for seeing Mt. Cook and over the three days we only saw the top of it briefly for about 30 minutes.
Mt. Cook and the Hooker Valley during a short clearance in the weather. This was the best view we got of the mountain during our three days.
Just got back from a day in Even Hønsen Agerup goshawk hide.
Even had had a great day on Friday, with the goshawk spending the best part of 5 hours in front of the hide. However, when we awoke to strong winds this morning we both wondered if that might affect our chances of seeing the goshawk, which ultimately I believe it did but that’s nature photography.
The goshawk did show up briefly around 9am. I was able to grab only four frames, with only one worth keeping.
It was still great to meet Even, a really nice young man, who really loves being out in nature and in many ways reminded me of myself when I was his age. Wow, I must be getting old, that was 20 years ago 
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Even was also generous enough to give me another day in the hide, since I didn’t get many opportunities today.
Cheers for that Even Looking forward to having another go!!
My first ever image of a Goshawk and at this stage my only one. Canon 1D Mark IV with the 500 mm f/4L IS. ISO 3200. 1/160 @ f/4. Click the image to see a much sharper and larger version.
Wow, I’ve been very quiet on here for the last few months.
On the 30th of November I flew back to New Zealand for a 7 week holiday; mainly to catch up with family and friends; it had been 2 years since I was last back there. My younger sister had had a baby earlier in the year, so I had become an uncle for the first time and I was really looking forward to getting home and spending sometime with the little one.
My originally plan was to keep a weekly blog going of my trip but my 8 year old PC decided it didn’t really want to work properly anymore and I of course had made the decision to leave my MacBook Pro at home in Norway, so that plan went out the window.
So over the next couple of weeks I’ll share some of the images from my trip, week by week. Keep in mind it wasn’t a photographic trip, although I did get away on a few ‘missions’ with the camera.
So lets get started…
WEEK ONE
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My cute little niece Evie