Analog6
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I have just returned from a 24 day (full days on the ground) holiday in the South Island of New Zealand. the highlight of the trip was a Landscape Workshop run by QCCP at Kinloch, which is at the head of Lake Wakatipu, above Queenstown. It is a place I had long wanted to visit, since I saw it on a couple of pro's sites, including Australian Peter Eastway's, and we went to NZ last Sept intending to get there, but were hired a camper van with a faulty coil (by Apollo vehicle rentals) and it would not start until 9.30-10.30 am every morning!
I only managed 2 lots of dawn shots, and we were not game to go to Kinloch as it is somewhat remote and there is no mechanical garage within 80kms. We lost a whole day in Queenstown while they had a mechanic going over it. The fault turned out to be an old one which they must have known about and chose to ignore (it would have been a 3 day fix, we were told). And they would not give any refund or rebate at all.
The three day workshop was fabulous in that I did get to play with a 7D (very impressed) and learnt a lot of new ways to 'see'. Here are a couple from the first morning, we had lovely mists and clouds. The full set (so far, I am still editing over 6,000 images from the trip) are at my Zenfolio gallery (see signature).
Some shots from the workshop.
On the way to the course - blue patterns on the lake in the afternoon
1-4 are from dawn/sunrise on the first day
On day 2 in the afternoon we were driving to the Caples range (inland most end of the Routeburn track) for some shots, and I got the bus driver (who was one of the photographer/organisers) to stop and we all had a go at this lovely scene
And some fern contrasts
I only managed 2 lots of dawn shots, and we were not game to go to Kinloch as it is somewhat remote and there is no mechanical garage within 80kms. We lost a whole day in Queenstown while they had a mechanic going over it. The fault turned out to be an old one which they must have known about and chose to ignore (it would have been a 3 day fix, we were told). And they would not give any refund or rebate at all.
The three day workshop was fabulous in that I did get to play with a 7D (very impressed) and learnt a lot of new ways to 'see'. Here are a couple from the first morning, we had lovely mists and clouds. The full set (so far, I am still editing over 6,000 images from the trip) are at my Zenfolio gallery (see signature).
Some shots from the workshop.
On the way to the course - blue patterns on the lake in the afternoon
1-4 are from dawn/sunrise on the first day
On day 2 in the afternoon we were driving to the Caples range (inland most end of the Routeburn track) for some shots, and I got the bus driver (who was one of the photographer/organisers) to stop and we all had a go at this lovely scene
And some fern contrasts