Japan Road Trip

Taking a trip to snowboard again at the old haunts from my Snow-search Japan writing days has been well-etched in my mind for the past few years. At the end of my rather compressed season in Hokkaido, Japan this year I managed to squeeze in a week-long road trip in...

12 hours in Singapore!

En-route back to NZ from South Africa last week I managed to squeeze in a short stopover in Singapore. When I say stopover, there wasn’t really much “over” about it. Really it was 12 crazy jam-packed hours exploring the delights of this wonderful...

Hanging with the lions!

While on a short trip to South Africa, I had the opportunity to visit The Boskoppie Lion and Tiger Reserve. This is not a zoo, it’s a reserve! Space is extensive and many of the fully-grown cats are slowly introduced back in to the wild when possible. Boskoppie...

Sequence panorama techniques

Shooting sequence panoramas is a tricky business. Especially ones that involved a lot of people, fast moving subjects and changeable light. I’ve shot a number of sequence panoramas previously, both on the snow and in other adventure sports such as mountain...

HDR panoramas!

It’s been a while coming, but I’ve finally got my technique down for creating HDR panoramas. With a new real estate section on 360queenstown-wanaka about to launch, having the opportunity to shoot this amazing property overlooking Lake Wanaka was perfect...

A sunrise hike on Isthmus Peak

My alarm went off at 3.30. Contrary to my own expectations I was wide awake in an instant. The excitement of the sunrise mission to come was had me going already. I had been planning this sunrise hike for a month or so now, waiting for the right gap in work loads and...