So with my arm broken and an extra month off of work, I begun going through the 8 16gb sd cards I accumlated over my travels in New Zealand. Part of this large collection includes plenty of video. Some good, some bad, but enough to put together a nice little montage of some good shots. [...]
Feb 082012
Feb 082012
Pretty noisy video I find compared to what I’ve seen other people shoot. The ISO was even fairly low here. Nikon D7000 w/ Nikor 18-105mm
Feb 072012
It all starts with a complicated story. My flight from Aucland to LA is delayed, on the tarmac, for emergency maintenance on an engine. Not exactly assuring. It caused a two hour delay. I only had 1h30m lay over in Los Angelas. Damn… We finally took off and after a few bumps the flight was [...]
Last year I got good taste of the rest of the world. New York City, Brisbane, Sydney, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Queenstown, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Shanghai. It was New Zealand that I ultimately wanted for the main course however, and I do not regret a thing. This country really is amazing. And while it has its [...]
Jan 042012
It’s the last night in New Zealand. It’s below -20c in Montreal. We got to Auckland for lunchtime. I booked a room at the Mercure Windsor hotel again while others went to Nomads Auckland and other various hostels. I spent the afternoon eating cheap sushi and filling out a grand total of 17 postcards. I’m [...]
The drive up to Rotorua was long. 7/8 hours, but leaving so early in the morning means we got there at 3pm. Not terrible. Unfortunately, there isn’t much to do, and the place really does stink, though it was windy today so unlike last time I went through the area, it didn’t smell nearly as [...]
Jan 042012
New Years Eve No one really had plans. The weather was again miserable, canceling the fireworks and outdoor stuff on the waterfront. I was with Sam, Ken (the torontonian) and a few others. With the weather so bad, I spent my afternoon at the hostel bar, meeting a bunch of interesting brits, germans, americans, and [...]
Dec 302011
The weather is miserable. We packed up and drove off to Pincton to grab the 2pm ferry. Not ideal weather to be taking a boat ride but at least then it’ll be somewhat exciting. I decided weather or no weather, I wanted to do a timelapse video of the boat leaving the south island. I [...]
Dec 302011
Waking up before 5am is never a good thing. It was a very relaxing morning. I tidied up a bit around the kitchen, enjoyed a few cups of tea, listened to the enormous amount of sound coming from the forests. So many birds. I was up before the cows were as they only started mooing [...]
Dec 282011
GIVE ME MY MOJITO GRR… I’ve been searching for mint for two days now. None of the grocery stores we stopped off at had any mint at all. In fact, none of them really had any fresh herbs to speak of. I had all the ingredients, just missing the mint. We drove out of the [...]
