Ping: Eric

On 2016-06-11 02:01:07 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 06:58:54 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

Some shots from your part of the World.
http://www.bokeh-monster.com/blog/below-zero

I can feel the chill from here!

I'm nearly a thousand miles north.

Beautiful country though.

The photographer is based in Auckland, so it was a Southern excursion for him.

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Regards,

Savageduck

On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:44:14 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2016-06-10 19:57:27 +0000, Me said:

On 11/06/2016 01:58, Savageduck wrote:
Some shots from your part of the World.
http://www.bokeh-monster.com/blog/below-zero


A skill required for shot #1 is to be able to set up your tripod
without getting in the way of dozens of others setting up their tripods
and to avoid getting their tripods in your frame.
https://www.google.com/search?q=wana...EbBKcQ_AUIBygC

https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/11985...c63d4ec1e5f643

This must be one of the most photographed trees in the world.

So

that is one skill he has managed to master.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:09:10 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2016-06-10 20:59:45 +0000, Me said:

On 11/06/2016 08:44, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-06-10 19:57:27 +0000, Me said:

On 11/06/2016 01:58, Savageduck wrote:
Some shots from your part of the World.
http://www.bokeh-monster.com/blog/below-zero


A skill required for shot #1 is to be able to set up your tripod
without getting in the way of dozens of others setting up their
tripods and to avoid getting their tripods in your frame.
https://www.google.com/search?q=wana...EbBKcQ_AUIBygC


https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/11985...c63d4ec1e5f643


So

that is one skill he has managed to master.

Probably. Next is geography lessons, as his blog is about his trip to
Queenstown, but the first photo he posts is from Wanaka.

I'm being cynical, as I had some photographer friends from overseas
stay last year, and they too had seen photos of the same subjects
posted by the blogger, which do give a sense of remoteness in nature.
It was thus somewhat of a disappointment to them to find that at each
of these locations they wanted to visit, a bus full of photo-tourists
had already set up.

The interesting thing is, he is based in Auckland.

Not far from me, actually.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 18:16:37 -0400, Tony Cooper
wrote:

On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 17:15:12 -0400, Mort wrote:

Savageduck wrote:
Some shots from your part of the World.
http://www.bokeh-monster.com/blog/below-zero



Beautiful shots of beautiful scenery, regardless of busloads of
tourists, many tripods,and all the other crap that some enjoy
complaining about. The closest that I have seen to these shots were some
lovely areas in the Canadian Rockies, where the lakes and glacier bases
are a brilliant blue due to inclusions of minerals,and the snowy peaks
are pristine.

Nice work indeed.

I wasn't aware of how beautiful New Zealand is until the television
show "Top of the Lake" came out in 2013.

Haven't you seen the Hobbit movies?
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 2016-06-11 02:05:43 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:44:14 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2016-06-10 19:57:27 +0000, Me said:

On 11/06/2016 01:58, Savageduck wrote:
Some shots from your part of the World.
http://www.bokeh-monster.com/blog/below-zero


A skill required for shot #1 is to be able to set up your tripod
without getting in the way of dozens of others setting up their tripods
and to avoid getting their tripods in your frame.
https://www.google.com/search?q=wana...EbBKcQ_AUIBygC

https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/11985...c63d4ec1e5f643

This

must be one of the most photographed trees in the world.

Along with this one:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Lone_cypress_tree_Monterey_CA_photo_D_Ramey_Logan. jpg


So

that is one skill he has managed to master.


--
Regards,

Savageduck

On 2016-06-11 03:19:17 +0000, Tony Cooper said:

On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 19:09:09 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2016-06-11 02:05:43 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:44:14 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2016-06-10 19:57:27 +0000, Me said:

On 11/06/2016 01:58, Savageduck wrote:
Some shots from your part of the World.
http://www.bokeh-monster.com/blog/below-zero


A skill required for shot #1 is to be able to set up your tripod
without getting in the way of dozens of others setting up their tripods
and to avoid getting their tripods in your frame.
https://www.google.com/search?q=wana...EbBKcQ_AUIBygC

https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/11985...c63d4ec1e5f643

This

must

be one of the most photographed trees in the world.

Along with this one:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Lone_cypress_tree_Monterey_CA_photo_D_Ramey_Logan. jpg


I

would have bet my Rolex that there'd be mention of that tree when
the subject of famous trees came up.

Then there was this guy who was known for shooting B&W in the National
Parks, but he slipped every now and then and made a color capture along
with some of those B&W shots. In doing that he made these old trees
quite famous, but they are tough for the tourists to get to to take
snapshots.
https://db.tt/PFgczMJs
https://db.tt/QwE10fyH
https://db.tt/vybIHriw

--
Regards,

Savageduck

On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 23:34:08 -0400, Tony Cooper
wrote:

On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 14:07:57 +1200, Eric Stevens
wrote:

On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 18:16:37 -0400, Tony Cooper
wrote:

On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 17:15:12 -0400, Mort wrote:

Savageduck wrote:
Some shots from your part of the World.
http://www.bokeh-monster.com/blog/below-zero



Beautiful shots of beautiful scenery, regardless of busloads of
tourists, many tripods,and all the other crap that some enjoy
complaining about. The closest that I have seen to these shots were some
lovely areas in the Canadian Rockies, where the lakes and glacier bases
are a brilliant blue due to inclusions of minerals,and the snowy peaks
are pristine.

Nice work indeed.

I wasn't aware of how beautiful New Zealand is until the television
show "Top of the Lake" came out in 2013.

Haven't you seen the Hobbit movies?

No. I can't imagine doing so. I'm not into that type of thing.

However, I just watched the first episode on Netflix of "Redfern Now"
about your Aussie neighbors. Not much in the way of scenery.

Australia has got a hell of a lot of scenery. The only problem is that
it is spread out real thin.

See https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...3/DSC00087.JPG

We also watch "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries", but it's the costumes,
not the scenery, that stand out. Also the cars and the period
settings.
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 11/06/2016 09:09, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-06-10 20:59:45 +0000, Me said:

On 11/06/2016 08:44, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-06-10 19:57:27 +0000, Me said:

On 11/06/2016 01:58, Savageduck wrote:
Some shots from your part of the World.
http://www.bokeh-monster.com/blog/below-zero


A skill required for shot #1 is to be able to set up your tripod
without getting in the way of dozens of others setting up their
tripods and to avoid getting their tripods in your frame.
https://www.google.com/search?q=wana...EbBKcQ_AUIBygC



https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/11985...c63d4ec1e5f643



So

that is one skill he has managed to master.

Probably. Next is geography lessons, as his blog is about his trip to
Queenstown, but the first photo he posts is from Wanaka.

I'm being cynical, as I had some photographer friends from overseas
stay last year, and they too had seen photos of the same subjects
posted by the blogger, which do give a sense of remoteness in nature.
It was thus somewhat of a disappointment to them to find that at each
of these locations they wanted to visit, a bus full of photo-tourists
had already set up.

The interesting thing is, he is based in Auckland.


LOL - you actually made a joke about Aucklanders - understood by most
locals here.
I presume it was unintentional.

On 2016-06-11 06:41:52 +0000, Me said:

On 11/06/2016 09:09, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-06-10 20:59:45 +0000, Me said:
On 11/06/2016 08:44, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-06-10 19:57:27 +0000, Me said:
On 11/06/2016 01:58, Savageduck wrote:
Some shots from your part of the World.
http://www.bokeh-monster.com/blog/below-zero


A skill required for shot #1 is to be able to set up your tripod
without getting in the way of dozens of others setting up their
tripods and to avoid getting their tripods in your frame.
https://www.google.com/search?q=wana...EbBKcQ_AUIBygC



https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/11985...c63d4ec1e5f643


So

that

is one skill he has managed to master.

Probably. Next is geography lessons, as his blog is about his trip to
Queenstown, but the first photo he posts is from Wanaka.

I'm being cynical, as I had some photographer friends from overseas
stay last year, and they too had seen photos of the same subjects
posted by the blogger, which do give a sense of remoteness in nature.
It was thus somewhat of a disappointment to them to find that at each
of these locations they wanted to visit, a bus full of photo-tourists
had already set up.

The interesting thing is, he is based in Auckland.


LOL - you actually made a joke about Aucklanders - understood by most
locals here.
I presume it was unintentional.

Regardless of having one of my cousin's sons living in the Tauranga
area I have no intimate knowledge of Kiwi inside jokes. So, you are
correct, it was unintentional. So unintentional, I have no idea of what
the joke might be.


--
Regards,

Savageduck

On 11/06/2016 19:35, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-06-11 06:41:52 +0000, Me said:

On 11/06/2016 09:09, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-06-10 20:59:45 +0000, Me said:
On 11/06/2016 08:44, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-06-10 19:57:27 +0000, Me said:
On 11/06/2016 01:58, Savageduck wrote:
Some shots from your part of the World.
http://www.bokeh-monster.com/blog/below-zero


A skill required for shot #1 is to be able to set up your tripod
without getting in the way of dozens of others setting up their
tripods and to avoid getting their tripods in your frame.
https://www.google.com/search?q=wana...EbBKcQ_AUIBygC




https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/11985...c63d4ec1e5f643



So

that

is one skill he has managed to master.

Probably. Next is geography lessons, as his blog is about his trip to
Queenstown, but the first photo he posts is from Wanaka.

I'm being cynical, as I had some photographer friends from overseas
stay last year, and they too had seen photos of the same subjects
posted by the blogger, which do give a sense of remoteness in nature.
It was thus somewhat of a disappointment to them to find that at each
of these locations they wanted to visit, a bus full of photo-tourists
had already set up.

The interesting thing is, he is based in Auckland.


LOL - you actually made a joke about Aucklanders - understood by most
locals here.
I presume it was unintentional.

Regardless of having one of my cousin's sons living in the Tauranga area
I have no intimate knowledge of Kiwi inside jokes. So, you are correct,
it was unintentional. So unintentional, I have no idea of what the joke
might be.

I'd wager that the average Aucklander knows more about geography in
Hawaii and Queensland than they do about their own country.
Not renowned for having any interest in the rest of their own country.
I say that with some authority and a disclaimer, as I am an Aucklander
by birth. I don't think it's unique to NZ - people in large-ish cities
tend not to explore their own countries.
Then in the case of one who did (the blogger) he posts photos from his
trip to Queenstown - when the first photo is from a different place
altogether, kind of confirming my cynical thoughts. If I'd have met him
and he'd told me he was from Auckland - I'd have asked who runs the pub
up there these days.