On Snowy Heights
A poem about the experience of climbing snowy mountains at dawn for sunrise.
Read MoreOn Making Plans
Here is a poem I wrote about the joy of making new travel plans.
Read MoreFinding B&W Inspiration From Others
Earlier in the year, I discovered Nick Mayo's work on Instagram (@nickexposed) as well as his fantastic YouTube channel. We ended up doing a print swap and the frame print has been sitting on my workstation desktop ever since.
Read MoreA Photographer's Journal - December 2017
It wasn't until this summer that I begun to try to work through it, accept how it made me felt and work on what I can to get me to the other side. It's a situational problem for me. One of the activities that makes me feel joy becomes almost impossible without camping right next to my location
Read MoreAn Ode To The Magic Of Winter
This is probably my first real poem about how my love for winter stems from the area I have lived in almost my entire life. I hope it makes sense, and I hope that you might know also feel that way.
Read MoreFinding The Perfect Day Hiking & Travel Backpack
Ever since ramping up my landscape photography gear and getting out onto the trails more often with a more complete camera and filming kit, I've been aware that stuffing my LowePro Nova 140 AW II into my day back "sack" bag hasn't been a very good way of going about my hikes.
Read MoreOn Fitting In
Within the city I live, I am constantly presented with the kinds of lifestyles that I simply have no desire to embrace and never really did, though it wasn't until recently that I realised this with such clarity.
Read MoreWhere Dreams Match Reality, A Long Weekend In New Zealand
It's hard to play this down as simply hyperbole, but my brief three day road trip throughout the South Island of New Zealand was a life changing experience and has had a profound effect on my outlook on life and for the direction in which it will travel from now on.
Read MoreTalking Heads Prevail, Creating A YouTube Channel
As I mentioned in my previous essay post, Embracing Landscape Photography, it's easy to become inspired by other people's lives of adventure and travel. Until now, I never had a great reason to produce a video about something. Most of my efforts outside the series of music videos I've produced have been quite random in topic and style. Why now?
Read MoreEmbracing Landscape Photography
Millions can all experience fear of missing out in unison, and that can't be a good thing. Watching other people do what you're not can be a source of anxiety amongst people, and I'm no stranger to its effects, but knowing that this is a thing, can I justify my own insatiable need for wanderlust?
Read MoreColour Vol. 2
Landscapes and nature, hiking and coastlines. Here's a variety of new photographs from both the Leica and Nikon with 35mm lenses. I bought the Sigma 35mm F1.4 ART in lieu of my brief New Zealand road trip in October, but after hiking Mount Maroon with my Nikon D810 on me, I came to the conclusion that I simply don't want to carry that size of a camera on me.
Read MoreBlack & White Vol. 112
Continuing my "urban exploration" phase, I've picked up the Kodak film again. I can't get enough. Also, my brother bought a house and has begun to renovate it. Not much else to report, except that I've booked flights and a car in late October for a long weekend driving from Christchurch to Queenstown via Mount Cook and hopefully Ray's Peak. For this short solo trip, I'm going to take the Nikon D810 and the Sigma 35mm F1.4 ART lens I've ordered. New Zealand is worth the gear.
Read MoreColour Vol. 1
I've been craving colour photography for a little while now, having shot over fifty rolls of black and white film. When you shoot film, you are binding yourself to a creative choice. With digital, you start with all colours and go from there. So I've put down the film cameras with intention to shoot with more colour.
Read MoreBlack & White Vol. 111
That didn't take long to accrue again. Street photography, urban landscapes, catch ups with friends, and plenty of printing later. Winter is drawing on and so I'm enthusiastic to get back into the mountains and hike before it gets warm and the days get long. I have done barely any this year.
Read MoreBlack & White Vol. 110
Bit of hiking, street photography, urban landscapes, portraits, coffee and art. It's been a good few weeks.
On a technical note, I've finally attained an accurate simulation of the Kodak black and white film I shoot, so I've been using the digital Leica M a little bit more lately, even if I don't get the same sense of enjoyment and "effort" that I do with film.
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