NZPhotographer Issue 12, October 2018
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ISSUE <strong>12</strong>, <strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
INTERVIEW<br />
WITH SARAH CALDWELL<br />
WE ARE ONE<br />
COMPETITION WINNERS<br />
AND BEST ENTRIES<br />
BEHIND THE SHOT<br />
WITH ALEXANDRE SIQUEIRA<br />
HOW TO CAPTURE:<br />
B&W LANDSCAPES<br />
WITH RICHARD YOUNG<br />
FEELING THE GRAMADO<br />
EFFECT IN BRAZIL<br />
BY BRENDON GILCHRIST<br />
JUDGE INTERVIEWS<br />
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WELCOME TO ISSUE <strong>12</strong> OF<br />
NZ PHOTOGRAPHER MAGAZINE<br />
HELLO EVERYONE,<br />
Welcome to the landmark issue<br />
<strong>12</strong> – It's hard to believe that a<br />
whole year has passed by since<br />
issue 1 was uploaded! We have<br />
learnt a lot and discovered a<br />
ton of great photographers and<br />
photos over the last <strong>12</strong> months<br />
and I personally wish to thank<br />
everyone who has supported<br />
us along the way, both past<br />
and present team members,<br />
all of our article contributors,<br />
photo submitters, and of course<br />
you, the reader. We honestly<br />
could not have made it this far<br />
without you!<br />
The big draw of this issue is<br />
finding out who has won each<br />
category of the We Are One competition and seeing the best entries<br />
but we also have the regular features which take us around the world.<br />
We have interviewed high-flying international architecture photographer<br />
Sarah Caldwell, Brazilian photographer Alexandre Siqueira tells us how<br />
he overcame challenges to capture one of New Zealand's glow worm<br />
caves, and Brendon Gilchrist takes us along on his trip to Canela in Brazil.<br />
Meanwhile, Richard Young shares his tips on capturing black and white<br />
landscapes and we find out a little more about our competition judges.<br />
Looking forward to the next <strong>12</strong> months, we have big hopes, dreams,<br />
and plans for the future of NZP but we'll need your help to make it<br />
happen – Watch this space!<br />
Emily Goodwin<br />
Editor NZ Photographer<br />
General Info:<br />
<strong>NZPhotographer</strong> <strong>Issue</strong> <strong>12</strong><br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Cover Photo<br />
by Sarah Caldwell<br />
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REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS<br />
Brendon Gilchrist<br />
Brendon is the man behind ESB<br />
Photography. He treks from sea to<br />
mountain, and back again, capturing<br />
the uniqueness of New Zealand’s<br />
unforgiving landscape.<br />
Richard Young<br />
Richard is an award-winning<br />
landscape and wildlife photographer<br />
who teaches photography workshops<br />
and runs photography tours. He is the<br />
founder of New Zealand Photography<br />
Workshops.<br />
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CONTENTS<br />
22<br />
6 INTERVIEW WITH SARAH CALDWELL<br />
INTERVIEW WITH SARAH CALDWELL<br />
6<br />
FEELING THE GRAMADO EFFECT IN BRAZIL<br />
22 by Brendon Gilchrist<br />
BEHIND THE SHOT<br />
26 with Alexandre Siqueira<br />
FEELING THE GRAMADO<br />
HOW TO CAPTURE: B&W LANDSCAPES<br />
28 with Richard Young<br />
EFFECT IN BRAZIL<br />
BY BRENDON GILCHRIST<br />
INTERVIEW WITH BLAIR QUAX<br />
30<br />
INTERVIEW WITH DARIUS (DARE) STEVENS<br />
33 27<br />
INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD YOUNG<br />
36<br />
INTERVIEW WITH SERGE RAMELLI<br />
39<br />
41 WE ARE ONE PHOTO COMPETITION<br />
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HOW TO CAPTURE: BLACK AND<br />
WHITE LANDSCAPES<br />
BEHIND THE SHOT<br />
WITH ALEXANDRE SIQUEIRA
A new era of Nikon imaging has arrived. A system born from our<br />
unending quest for perfection. A system that opens a new dimension of<br />
possibilities. A system inspired by our past but designed for tomorrow.<br />
A system only Nikon could create.<br />
FIND OUT MORE<br />
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Interview with<br />
Sarah Caldwell<br />
The High-Flying<br />
Architectural Photographer.
HI SARAH, COULD YOU TELL US A BIT ABOUT<br />
YOURSELF AND YOUR INTERESTS?<br />
I’m a pilot with Air NZ, currently a B777 captain,<br />
and have been with the company for 31 years. I’m<br />
divorced with no kids and own a terrace house in<br />
Parnell that’s filled with books and mostly abstract<br />
oil paintings done by my mother. My home is very<br />
close to the domain, which is great for walking in<br />
the summertime and photographing the flowers in<br />
the Wintergardens.<br />
Over the years, my interests have been varied,<br />
mostly sporting, beginning at school with netball<br />
and then learning to ski in my late twenties. I took<br />
up golf in my forties then shifted to tennis but knee<br />
injuries (and the desire to look after my knees)<br />
means no more tennis or skiing.<br />
I’m an avid foodie and a wine lover, I keep a small<br />
cellar and probably collect a lot more than I really<br />
need. I’m also an avid reader and have been for<br />
most of my life. My favourite author is Robertson<br />
Davies and of all his books, The Cornish Trilogy is the<br />
one I love the most. I enjoy thrillers as well, reading<br />
the likes of James Patterson, Lee Childs, David<br />
Baldacci, Tom Clancy and John Grisham. I also love<br />
Ken Follet, Edward Rutherford, and Stieg Larsson<br />
books, amongst many other authors.<br />
TELL US ABOUT YOUR FLYING CAREER…<br />
I got into aviation at a young age, gaining my<br />
private pilots licence at 18 and working as an Air<br />
Traffic Control Assistant at Ardmore, eventually<br />
qualifying as an Air Traffic Controller. The next step<br />
would have been a promotion to becoming a<br />
Radar Controller at Auckland but, whilst off work<br />
with a badly broken leg from a skiing accident,<br />
I realised I wasn’t looking forward to this. One sunny<br />
afternoon, outside with my leg in plaster, I realised<br />
that I really wanted to be up there in the sky so I set<br />
about gaining my Commercial Pilot’s licence.<br />
In early 1987, with enough hours and having<br />
completed all the Airline Transport Pilot Licence<br />
exams, I finally become employed by Air NZ as a<br />
First Officer on the Fokker F27 Friendship, and from<br />
there my career has flourished.<br />
SO WHERE DID PHOTOGRAPHY ENTER YOUR<br />
LIFE?<br />
I always wanted to learn photography and had<br />
bought an SLR film camera before my career took<br />
me to the UK but, with my busy lifestyle of work and<br />
sport, I never got around to learning photography<br />
and ended up with a lot of out of focus and poorly<br />
exposed shots.<br />
In 2013, I had 4 months off work with a knee injury<br />
from tennis and whilst finding a photography<br />
contest website for my sister, I realised I could enter<br />
in it too, so that triggered a DSLR purchase. I finally<br />
had the time to learn so I began two concurrent<br />
beginner DSLR adult education night courses<br />
followed by the start of the online Photography<br />
Institute course.<br />
I quickly became passionate about photography<br />
and continued learning, taking workshops in<br />
the following years but found I wasn’t taking my<br />
camera away with me on work trips, as it was too<br />
heavy and cumbersome so I switched to mirrorless.<br />
The architecture photography only really took off<br />
after when I went on an Art of Creativity and Art<br />
Of Processing course in Maine, USA. Being in major<br />
cities, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Los Angeles,<br />
Houston, Buenos Aires and London for work made<br />
it easy to find subjects plus I’ve always loved<br />
architecture — The lines and shapes etc.<br />
CAN YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
STYLE?<br />
Probably the best way of describing it is Creative<br />
Architecture. I mostly shoot interiors but I don’t do<br />
any real estate type photography. I capture what<br />
appeals to my eye knowing the lenses I use and the<br />
effects they give me. I love reflections, symmetry,<br />
lines and shapes, particularly converging lines.<br />
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HONG KONG SKYSCRAPER<br />
F11, 1/60s, ISO<strong>12</strong>5<br />
SKYSCRAPERS GALORE<br />
SAN FRANCISCO<br />
F9, 1/100s<br />
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DO YOU HAVE AN ALL-TIME FAVOURITE<br />
IMAGE YOU HAVE TAKEN?<br />
That’s a hard one, I love most of my images and the<br />
latest ones are always favourites, probably because<br />
of the newness of them. However, Hinze Hall which is<br />
in the Natural History Museum in London is a definite<br />
favourite and has also been successful for me.<br />
I was excited by the hall when I saw it, it is aweinspiringly<br />
beautiful, and I felt I did justice to it. It was<br />
one of those images I wasn’t sure I was going to get<br />
a good capture of as I couldn’t use my tripod so<br />
I just had a curved handrail to use to try and keep<br />
the camera still for a 1 second exposure. It was a<br />
difficult image to process too because of the bright<br />
light coming in and shadows inside. I felt I achieved<br />
something with both the capture and the processing<br />
and that gave me personal satisfaction.<br />
With my photography, it is very much a creative outlet<br />
for me and so I play with my images at times, altering<br />
or removing colours, changing white balance etc, as<br />
I am inspired. So some of my images are not strictly<br />
representative in that regard. I very much enjoy the<br />
processing side and find it very creative.<br />
WHAT ARE YOU SHOOTING WITH?<br />
I have a couple of the Sony A7RIII's. I need my<br />
backup camera to be identical as I find it hard with<br />
two different types and I frequently use two bodies<br />
to avoid changing lenses all the time. I have several<br />
lenses but my favourites are the Laowa <strong>12</strong>mm which<br />
gives me wonderfully creative options and is my go-to<br />
for architecture photography and after that the 16–<br />
35mm, a beautiful lens. Most of my work is handheld<br />
as tripods aren’t allowed in most places but I do own<br />
the Really Right Stuff Carbon Fibre and for filters, I have<br />
a few of several brands but the ones I am using most<br />
now are Breakthrough Photography round magnetic<br />
filters.<br />
HOW DO YOU CHOOSE THE LOCATIONS, AND<br />
DO YOU HAVE AN OVERALL FAVOURITE CITY?<br />
It’s a combination of inspiration from Instagram,<br />
googling architecture in the cities I am travelling to,<br />
googling Architecture Awards, along with the normal<br />
wandering and finding stuff on the way that takes my<br />
fancy. My favourite location so far is London, it has<br />
everything there (old plus new) and a lot of it!<br />
HINZE HALL<br />
LONDON NATURAL<br />
HISTORY MUSEUM<br />
F8, 1s, ISO 100<br />
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PENNZOIL TOWERS<br />
HOUSTON<br />
F8, .8s, ISO 200<br />
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GOLDEN TOWERS<br />
HONG KONG<br />
F8, 1/60s, ISO <strong>12</strong>5<br />
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IF YOU COULD TRAVEL ANYWHERE AND SHOOT<br />
ANY BUILDING WHERE/WHICH WOULD IT BE?<br />
I have lots of bucket list spots! Zaha but I particularly want<br />
to go to Valencia and photograph the City of Arts and<br />
Sciences by Santiago Calatrava. It is a stunning modern<br />
complex that has water as well and as I adore reflections it<br />
would satisfy both loves at once.<br />
WHAT INSPIRES YOU?<br />
Beauty. I find beauty and harmony in lines, shapes, and<br />
symmetry. I am also inspired by nature. I love being out<br />
in the natural world and find a connection there too,<br />
which I need, so I do a little landscape photography at<br />
times, constantly being drawn to water reflections for the<br />
symmetry.<br />
ANY FUNNY STORIES THAT HAVE HAPPENED WHILST<br />
YOU’VE BEEN OUT SHOOTING?<br />
Not really, I mostly go out by myself and everything falls into<br />
place. But on one London sortie, I was out for hours with<br />
my backpack and at the end of the afternoon I was very<br />
tired and my backpack was then feeling very heavy. On<br />
getting back to the hotel room, I discovered I had been<br />
carrying my 15” laptop around all day. Duh! I put it down to<br />
jetlag!<br />
WHAT AWARDS HAVE YOU WON FOR YOUR<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY?<br />
I gained my Associateship of the Photographic Society of<br />
New Zealand (PSNZ) this year (<strong>2018</strong>) and have also won:<br />
• National Triptych Print winner 2014<br />
• Vipa Architecture Photographer of the Year 2016<br />
• 1st Prize Architecture Amateur section of The<br />
International Colour Awards, 2017<br />
• Sigma D-Photo Amateur Photographer of the Year 2017<br />
I am also the current holder of the James White memorial<br />
Trophy NZIPP Iris Awards<br />
AUTUMN SUNRISE<br />
DALEFIELD AREA, QUEENSTOWN<br />
F11, 1/30s, ISO 64<br />
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OUT OF ALL OF THOSE AWARDS AND<br />
ACHIEVEMENTS, WHICH HAS BEEN YOUR<br />
PROUDEST MOMENT IN PHOTOGRAPHY?<br />
Winning the 2017 Sigma D-Photo Amateur<br />
Photographer of the Year was a big one, but I think<br />
my proudest moment was the honour of being<br />
awarded the James White Memorial Trophy at the<br />
<strong>2018</strong> Iris Awards for the highest points for a first time<br />
entrant.<br />
James White was President of the NZIPP 1981–82 and a<br />
past Chairman of the Honours Board, and instrumental<br />
in setting up the current Iris Awards judging system<br />
along with other developments in the NZIPP over<br />
the years. The trophy is made up his various medals<br />
received from NZIPP over the years, and it is a great<br />
privilege to be a recipient.<br />
WHAT’S NEXT FOR YOU? ANY PLANS TO<br />
GIVE UP FLYING AND BECOME A FULL-TIME<br />
PHOTOGRAPHER?<br />
In the short term, I am up-skilling, doing a few small<br />
workshops in NZ and learning about photoshop,<br />
plus I want to get my website up and running. I will<br />
probably retire in just under 2 years when I reach the<br />
age limit for International flying and I will then spend<br />
far more time on photography.<br />
www.instagram.com/sarah_e_caldwell<br />
www.facebook.com/sarah.caldwell.7370<br />
THE TRIO<br />
SOUTHWARK, LONDON<br />
F8, 1/400s, ISO 100<br />
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THE GOLDEN HALL II<br />
TEATRO COLON, BUENOS AIRES<br />
F8, 1/60s, ISO400<br />
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CITIZEN M HOTEL SPIRAL<br />
BANKSIDE, LONDON<br />
F8, 1/30s, ISO 3200<br />
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THE ESCALATOR<br />
MELBOURNE<br />
F8, 1/30s, ISO 640<br />
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FEELING THE GRAMADO EFFECT IN BRAZIL<br />
by Brendon Gilchrist<br />
There is a special effect that the Gramado region in<br />
the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil will leave you<br />
feeling if and when you visit…<br />
The small town of Canela and its surrounding area is a<br />
place of natural beauty. It has Bavarian style buildings,<br />
similar to what you would see in parts of Germany,<br />
food that leaves you feeling satisfied no matter what<br />
you eat, friendly locals, and one of Brazil’s top 10<br />
waterfalls: The Caracol.<br />
The Caracol is a 131-meter plunge waterfall located<br />
just 20 minutes from town. It is formed on a basalt<br />
cliff, an old volcanic formation, surrounded in native<br />
forest. It seems like the stream of water is coming out<br />
of the forest, the water dropping down into a lush and<br />
beautiful canyon that seems to go on forever. Vultures<br />
fly around the falls and flocks of parrots chirp as they<br />
circle around the waterfall.<br />
When I was there the rain poured and the water<br />
flowed. Despite not being far from the entrance of<br />
the park, you feel like you are deep in the jungle. It’s<br />
a popular place that attracts the masses, the effect<br />
that nature has on people is quite simply irresistible —<br />
They need their fill of refreshing peace just as much<br />
as I do. I could watch all day and feel happy with<br />
the landscape that surrounds me, knowing that this<br />
waterfall is shaping the land around it, forever flowing,<br />
before my time and long after I am gone.<br />
CANELA CATHEDRAL<br />
This small town is famous for its cathedral de Pedra<br />
and its night lights. It is also called the Cathedral of<br />
stone and was chosen as one the of seven wonders of<br />
Brazil in 2010.<br />
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It is constructed in an English Gothic style and the<br />
highest point measures 65 meters. There are <strong>12</strong> bronze<br />
bells that chime, a sound that had me reminiscing<br />
about Christchurch and one that I’d missed on my<br />
travels. The details in every corner of this church tell<br />
a story inside and out from the stain glass windows to<br />
the carved wooden door.<br />
It attracts many people from far and wide and is<br />
not just a religious building, but a feature of the city<br />
centre of Canela — After becoming one of the seven<br />
wonders of Brazil, it was granted an external lighting<br />
system which makes this place even more impressive<br />
to see.<br />
Waiting for the sun to set and the lights to turn on<br />
while sipping on a hot Chocolate (one that tastes like<br />
real melted chocolate with a bit of milk) I can see that<br />
this one building attracts everyone — even the locals.<br />
The lights, the charm, the beautiful architecture of the<br />
building… It looks like the set of a movie where you<br />
will see Mickey and Minnie mouse chasing each other<br />
around the street.<br />
THE GRAMANDO EFFECT<br />
It is hard to describe the feeling that this place has<br />
left on me, but I’m beginning to think that Brazil is not<br />
just 1 huge country but many Portuguese speaking<br />
countries in one.<br />
Rio Grande Do Sul for one has so much to offer, the<br />
time I spent here was simply not long enough. I’m<br />
already planning a return visit one day to photograph<br />
the Canyons and sample more of the creamy<br />
chocolate!<br />
3 TIPS FOR A TRAVELING PHOTOGRAPHER<br />
• Don’t be afraid to be a tourist and take those photos that<br />
everyone has.<br />
• Take many photos in a variety of ways because you don’t<br />
want to get home and wish you had captured That scene That<br />
way — The saying goes that film is cheap, digital is cheaper!<br />
• Enjoy the surroundings, take it all in, enjoy the moments<br />
that you create, capture the scene that you are in and have fun<br />
while doing it.<br />
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Behind The Shot<br />
with Alexandre Siqueira<br />
3 SHOT HDR - F2, 13s, 60s, and 130s, ISO 5000<br />
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HI ALEXANDRE, TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT<br />
YOURSELF AND YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY…<br />
I’m Brazilian and have been based in Queenstown<br />
since last February. I came to New Zealand with<br />
the purpose of having a sabbatical year with my<br />
family. As a landscape photographer and speleo<br />
photographer (photographer of caves), I couldn’t<br />
have chosen a better country to come to!<br />
My photography story started in 2008 at a time when<br />
I was having many outdoor adventures participating<br />
in activities like climbing, rappelling, canyoning,<br />
and caving. I noticed that many of my photos were<br />
spread on social media and I was soon invited to take<br />
photos of many of these adventure sports.<br />
My journey as a speleo photographer started 3 years<br />
ago and I have photographed many caves in Brazil.<br />
I like it because it involved a variety of techniques<br />
such as long exposure, macro, flash illumination and<br />
light painting to be applied altogether. Moreover, it<br />
is a truly fascinating environment with many textures<br />
and colours, and the weather doesn’t change, unlike<br />
in landscape photography!<br />
I took a leap last year, in 2017, when I quit my job as<br />
president of a company and started a new career as<br />
a full time professional photographer.<br />
TELL US ABOUT THIS SHOT…<br />
An item on my bucket list was to take a picture of<br />
the holy grail of cave photography, New Zealand’s<br />
glow worm caves. However, I came across my first<br />
challenge — Almost all of these caves are private<br />
and are used for commercial tourism, making<br />
photography prohibited.<br />
Therefore, I spent a couple months researching glow<br />
worm caves that were open to public access and where<br />
photography was allowed. Fortunately, I figured out a<br />
spot with the help of a kiwi photographer friend of mine.<br />
She told me about a cave at the top of the North Island.<br />
WHAT WERE YOU SHOOTING WITH?<br />
Camera: Canon 5DSR (50MB)<br />
Lens: Sigma Art 14mm 1.8F<br />
Flash: Canon 600ex II rt<br />
Filter: Orange 2.800 Kelvin<br />
2 Tripods: Benro (to camera) and Gorillapod Joby<br />
(to speedlight)<br />
2 Radio transmitters Pocketwizard FlexTT5 (to speedlite)<br />
and Plus III (speedlite trigger)<br />
Remote Shutter Vello (to camera)<br />
WHAT WAS HAPPENING BEHIND THE CAMERA?<br />
I was amazed when I first looked at the roof of the<br />
cave. But five seconds after, I realized that the<br />
brightness of the glow worms was quite less than I was<br />
expecting — It would be even harder to get the shot<br />
than I’d first thought.<br />
I had to find a way to reduce the noise with an<br />
exposure length of 130 seconds. In addition to this,<br />
due to the long exposure, I would have to reduce the<br />
clipping of the lights at the centre of the glow worms.<br />
With these opposite problems, my solution was to take<br />
different exposures and do a HDR during post editing.<br />
I was alone when visiting this cave so I had already<br />
worked out a strategy on how I could achieve the<br />
shot single handedly — Usually, I have at least 2 other<br />
people with me, one as a model, another to help with<br />
lighting. I used a radio transmitter and a tripod for the<br />
flash and I used a wireless remote shutter to set the<br />
time exposure up on the camera because I was the<br />
model.<br />
As a result, a lot of photos were taken with different<br />
adjustments until I achieved the desired result. Generally,<br />
the total time for shooting inside a cave is 2 hours when<br />
I have help, in this special case, it was doubled.<br />
HOW MUCH EDITING DID YOU DO TO THIS<br />
PHOTO?<br />
I spend more time taking the photo, getting it right<br />
in camera so that I only need to make minimal<br />
adjustments during the editing process which I can<br />
usually get done just using Lightroom. For this image,<br />
I had three shots (RAW) with different exposures (13,<br />
60 and 130 seconds) to merge HDR in Lightroom. After<br />
that, the adjustments I made were:<br />
Exposure +2, Highlights –60, Whites +49, Clarity +20,<br />
Vibrance +17, Noise Reduction Luminance 36, detail 50.<br />
WHAT TIPS CAN YOU SHARE WITH OUR READERS<br />
FOR SHOOTING SUCCESSFULLY IN CAVES?<br />
1. Go with at least 2 friends. As well as being a safety<br />
precaution (you should never go into a cave alone)<br />
one person can help you with the illumination of<br />
stalactites and stalagmites, the other can be the<br />
model with the purpose of establishing the proportion<br />
and size of the cave.<br />
2. Avoid frontal flash as this makes the image flat.<br />
The preferred illumination is lateral 90° and 180° on<br />
speleothems (stalactites and stalagmites).<br />
3. Once the desired focus has been obtained, switch<br />
to manual mode on the lens and put tape on the<br />
focus ring so that it doesn’t move.<br />
4. Review the histogram after each shot to check if it<br />
is underexposed — Don’t trust the image on LCD/Live<br />
View.<br />
WHERE CAN WE FIND YOU ONLINE?<br />
www.instragram.com/alexandre_rapel<br />
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HOW TO CAPTURE: BLACK AND WHITE LANDSCAPES<br />
Monochrome Landscape Photography Tips with Richard Young<br />
Omapere Jetty, Hokianga<br />
CONTRAST:<br />
A powerful black & white photograph requires some<br />
contrast. Look for subjects that have luminosity<br />
(brightness) that contrast each other. Try composing<br />
a bright subject against a dark background, or vice<br />
versa to create some visual impact.<br />
SEE IN BLACK AND WHITE:<br />
‘Seeing’ in B&W is often very often difficult, but one<br />
benefit of digital cameras is that you can set the<br />
camera to black and white (monochrome) mode.<br />
You will then be able to ‘see’ the scene in black and<br />
white in the live view, or if your camera has one, the<br />
electronic viewfinder.<br />
CONTROL YOUR EXPOSURE:<br />
If a black and white photograph is underexposed<br />
it will just look like a ‘muddy’ grey image. A strong<br />
black and white image requires a pure white and,<br />
ideally, a pure black, to give it contrast. Use exposure<br />
compensation (or full manual mode) to control the<br />
exposure of your photograph.<br />
LOOK FOR SHAPE AND TEXTURE:<br />
F11, 1/4s, ISO 64, 16mm<br />
Shape and texture look amazing in black and white,<br />
a monochrome image can often show texture that is<br />
not noticeable in colour. Look for subjects with a lot<br />
of texture. Without colour to distract you, these details<br />
will become much more obvious in the photograph.<br />
LEARN HOW TO CREATE FINE ART BLACK & WHITE LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHS ON A 4-DAY LONG EXPOSURE<br />
MASTERCLASS IN THE HOKIANGA & BAY OF ISLANDS WITH NEW ZEALAND PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS
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Interview with<br />
Blair Quax<br />
Judge of the Street<br />
Photography Category<br />
www.instagram.com/blairquax<br />
BLAIR, CAN YOU TELL OUR READERS HOW YOU<br />
GOT STARTED IN PHOTOGRAPHY?<br />
When I was about 8 years old I used to spend my<br />
pocket money on disposable film cameras that I<br />
would pick up from the local dairy. Because I lived in<br />
a small town the films would need to be dropped to<br />
the local chemist to be sent away to be developed.<br />
A few weeks later the prints would arrive back full of<br />
blurry and grainy pictures of the cat and various other<br />
suburban/semi-rural scenes. I loved the look of the<br />
negatives more than the images themselves!<br />
HOW DID PHOTOGRAPHY BECOME YOUR<br />
CAREER?<br />
Very slowly over a number of years... The big<br />
jump came when I threw in everything to start a<br />
photography studio in 2002.<br />
WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO OTHERS WHO<br />
WOULD LOVE TO MAKE THIS THEIR FULL TIME JOB?<br />
Photography takes a lot of work, be prepared to live<br />
and breathe it. Learn to see your photography and<br />
business from the perspective of your clients and<br />
make changes accordingly. Remember that you sell<br />
an experience not a digital file.<br />
CAN YOU CHOOSE A FAVOURITE PHOTO?<br />
I always seem to like my last photographic triumph of<br />
technique more than anything else I have ever taken.<br />
I’ve been learning about Astro photography lately and<br />
have been lucky enough to spend some time out in the<br />
night with a couple of my astro-heroes Mark Gee and<br />
Chris Pegman. This image was taken at Piha recently as<br />
Chris and I scoped out a few spots for a Samyang astro<br />
workshop we were hosting the following night.<br />
HOW DID YOU FEEL AT BEING APPROACHED<br />
TO JUDGE OUR WE ARE ONE COMPETITION?<br />
I was thrilled to be asked to judge the street<br />
photography category, it’s a fantastic way to see<br />
some breathtaking images. The standard of the entries<br />
has been world class and it’s testament to the depth<br />
of skill and vision on the New Zealand photographic<br />
community.<br />
WHAT WERE YOU LOOKING FOR WHEN GOING<br />
THROUGH ALL OF THE ENTRIES?<br />
I’m a fan of strong composition - when this is paired<br />
with good technique then this will grab my full<br />
attention. If you add in a visual narrative then you<br />
have a strong image.<br />
WHAT WAS YOUR PROCESS FOR JUDGING,<br />
HOW DID YOU WHITTLE DOWN THE NUMBERS<br />
TO COME UP WITH 1 WINNER?<br />
The impact of the winning image made it stand<br />
out from the crowd. And when you look closer the<br />
technique is there too. Look closer again and the<br />
content adds to the story, this is the combination<br />
needed for award-winning images.<br />
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WHAT COMPETITIONS HAVE YOU YOURSELF<br />
WON? WHICH ONE ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF?<br />
I’ve been a keen participant in the NZIPP Iris<br />
Awards for many years. This is a tough print based<br />
photographic awards where your images are<br />
judged in public by a rotating selection of 5 expert<br />
photographic judges. Success can come either via<br />
an individual submission or the sum of your portfolio of<br />
entered work.<br />
In 2010 my portfolio won the New Zealand Wedding<br />
of the Year at the NZIPP Iris Awards. As I was a relative<br />
newcomer to the competition at the time it was a<br />
watershed moment for my photography.<br />
This image of lifting fog on the Hauraki Plains one cold<br />
morning was awarded Gold at NZIPP Iris Awards. It<br />
wasn’t my first Gold at these awards but the first taken<br />
with a DSLR - my previous NZIPP gold had been taken<br />
with an iPhone in 20<strong>12</strong>.<br />
I gained the Fellow of the NZIPP in 2014 which is a high<br />
recognition for cumulative collection of Iris awards<br />
over the years.<br />
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Interview with<br />
Darius (Dare)<br />
Stevens<br />
Judge of the<br />
Documentary Category<br />
www.darecinema.com<br />
HOW DID YOU GET STARTED IN<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY?<br />
My dad gave me a small 35mm camera when I was<br />
about 6 and just told me to have fun with it. My first<br />
photos were truly horrible, but I was fascinated by this.<br />
I dabbled with it until I was about 10 when I was given<br />
a small, used camcorder and then I started getting<br />
more serious about photography and videography<br />
and started taking portrait photos of friends and<br />
making small home movies.<br />
WHICH COMPETITION HAVE YOU WON AND<br />
WHICH WIN HAS BEEN YOUR PROUDEST<br />
ACHIEVEMENT?<br />
I would say my proudest was a photo contest about<br />
20 years ago which got one of my candid portrait<br />
photos featured in Times Square, but that photo is<br />
long since lost along with all my film photography,<br />
unfortunately – A hazard of moving so frequently. I was<br />
also really proud to get an Emmy nomination for my<br />
video work some years ago, but… I didn’t win. :(<br />
Recently I think my favorite “competition” was when<br />
a couple of my Yosemite photos won on 500px. My<br />
favorite part of that is that the number one question<br />
I was asked was not “How did you get the shot” but<br />
“What camera did you take the photo on?” I was<br />
laughing out loud when I answered that each shot<br />
was taken with my phone. What type of camera and<br />
lens you use can certainly be important. But equally<br />
or even more important is your subject and being<br />
patient enough to get a good shot which might mean<br />
being willing to take 1,000 photos to get a memorable<br />
one. That’s what I’m proudest about: that I simply<br />
waited and kept taking photos and kept going back<br />
until I knew I had the shot I wanted.<br />
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WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO OTHERS<br />
WHO WOULD LOVE TO MAKE PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
THEIR FULL TIME JOB?<br />
It almost goes without saying that you better practice<br />
your craft until you can take photos that wow people<br />
or will at least be “as good as” the market you are<br />
trying to have a career in. But beyond that:<br />
1. Learn video skills. The number of clients who are<br />
paying just for photos without videos is shrinking by<br />
the day. You are far more likely to get work if you can<br />
offer videos and photos. If you don’t want to learn<br />
video, partner with someone who does it already.<br />
2. To get your foot in the door, find local businesses<br />
and offer to do the first photos/video for free. If they<br />
don’t like it, they don’t pay. If they like it they can pay<br />
whatever they want. If you really have honed your<br />
craft and can make something that’s professional, 9<br />
out of 10 times they will pay. But even if they don’t you<br />
will have material for your portfolio.<br />
CAN YOU CHOOSE ONE OF YOUR FAVOURITE<br />
PHOTOS TO SHOW US?<br />
This is like being asked to pick your favorite song of all<br />
time! So many to choose from, especially since I have<br />
two young daughters.<br />
To keep it simple, I’ll share one I took recently that<br />
I really love. I love photos that make me wonder<br />
what’s happening or that give me something to go<br />
back to and look at. I love how Rose is sitting in the<br />
car and that her look is so ambiguous. Is she bored,<br />
angry, hopeful, amused? Is she looking at me behind<br />
those sunglasses or is she talking to someone on the<br />
phone? But more importantly, who’s that guy looking<br />
at her in the reflection of the window? And what is he<br />
thinking?<br />
Sure there are technical factors which I enjoy about<br />
it, the frame within a frame, the soft light on her skin,<br />
the shallow depth of field and so on. But all of those<br />
factors only help me focus on what I find interesting in<br />
the photo.<br />
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HOW DID YOU FEEL WHEN WE ASKED YOU<br />
TO BE A JUDGE FOR OUR WE ARE ONE<br />
COMPETITION?<br />
I was flattered but also instantly nervous because not<br />
only are these photos being submitted by amateurs<br />
and other professional photographers, but as a<br />
photographer starting out, I entered plenty of contests<br />
that I didn’t win and I know it can be hard on one<br />
emotionally and I don’t like hurting other people’s<br />
feelings. So I felt that I needed to do the hard work of<br />
really examining every single photo not just from an<br />
emotional view of how the shot made me feel, but<br />
also really examining the technical aspects of it.<br />
WHAT WERE YOU LOOKING FOR WHEN GOING<br />
THROUGH THE ENTRIES AND HOW DID YOU<br />
WHITTLE IT DOWN TO JUST 1 WINNER?<br />
Well, I’m judging the documentary category so what<br />
I want to find or see is a story in a single image. And<br />
that’s what I look for first: what images hit me with<br />
a story that unfolds in my mind. Images that are too<br />
abstract aren’t really documentary. Images that are<br />
too general or non specific aren’t really documentary<br />
either. And then there are those that jump out of the<br />
frame at you as your mind races, imagining the story<br />
behind the people, behind the shot.<br />
I went through each photo and noted whether or<br />
not it grabbed me emotionally or intellectually. Did it<br />
engage me and make me curious about what was<br />
happening? Did it trigger an emotion that pulled<br />
me into the event? As a documentarian, your job<br />
is to bring the viewer into the story so that they can<br />
live it vicariously through your work. So I scored each<br />
photo first on what I consider truly important about<br />
a documentary photo: Capturing a story in a single<br />
image that makes me want to know more.<br />
Next pass I went through all photos again checking<br />
them for framing, focal length and composition. Next<br />
pass I went through checking them for exposure, color<br />
balance, contrast and general retouching approach.<br />
And then finally I put all my top picks on one huge<br />
screen and looked for the one that I instantly<br />
gravitated to.<br />
ANYTHING ELSE YOU’D LIKE TO ADD?<br />
Thanks to all the photographers who put their heart<br />
into their work and submitted a photo. There were lots<br />
of really great submissions and I really wish everyone<br />
good luck and great success. Remember that a<br />
career as a creative is a marathon and not a sprint,<br />
so just keep going, taking photos and sharing them.<br />
You’ll get there.<br />
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Interview with<br />
Richard Young<br />
Judge of the Landscape &<br />
Nature Category<br />
www.richardyoung.co.nz<br />
HOW DID YOU GET STARTED IN<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY?<br />
I think like most professional landscape and nature<br />
photographers this originally came from a love for the<br />
landscape and nature and wanting to share this with<br />
others, rather than a love for photography itself to start<br />
with. I think that to be good at any type of photography<br />
you have to be passionate about your subject and<br />
have an understanding of it, it is this that will allow you to<br />
express the subject uniquely within your work.<br />
WHAT COMPETITIONS HAVE YOU WON AND<br />
WHICH WIN ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF?<br />
I have won a number of awards over the years,<br />
but the one I was most proud of winning was; “Best<br />
Landscape Photograph” at the Banff Mountain<br />
Photography Competition. The winning photograph<br />
“Alpine Light” was taken looking over the central<br />
crater of Mt. Tongariro on a winter trip over the<br />
crossing in 2009. The clouds were dancing across the<br />
sky above the snow-covered volcano, leaving behind<br />
their soft blue shadow on the sinuous landscape.<br />
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HOW DID PHOTOGRAPHY BECOME YOUR<br />
CAREER?<br />
I had to start out by funding my photography (and<br />
the travel that went with it!) with another job. Being<br />
self employed allowed me a good amount of<br />
flexibility until I could support myself full time from my<br />
photography. After I started to sell my work as prints,<br />
I was offered an opportunity to run a small art gallery<br />
which allowed me a permanent place to exhibit and<br />
sell my prints and build up contacts for other work.<br />
Today, I still sell my prints but most of my time is now<br />
taken up teaching photography on my workshops<br />
and tours.<br />
WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO OTHERS<br />
WHO WOULD LOVE TO MAKE PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
THEIR JOB?<br />
Know that it’s hard! To make a full time living as<br />
a landscape photographer, and photography in<br />
general in today’s marketplace, you need to diversify<br />
and find multiple ways to generate income through<br />
your photography. As a full-time photographer, you<br />
will likely spend less time taking photographs than you<br />
think and you did before it was your job. You will also<br />
need to find a new hobby!<br />
CAN YOU SHARE A FAVOURITE PHOTO WITH US?<br />
That has to be ‘Misty Forest’. It is very hard to take<br />
good photographs in the forest and to capture both<br />
simplicity and detail in a photograph as this. The mist<br />
offers an amazing sense of depth in the image, the<br />
warm red tones of a broken Red Beech tree trunk<br />
isolated it from the emerald green of the forest. I love<br />
this photograph and it has also received awards in 4<br />
international competitions which must mean a few<br />
other people also see something in it too.<br />
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WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE WE ARE<br />
ONE COMPETITION?<br />
Having had a strong involvement in the magazine<br />
over the last year it is great to be involved in this<br />
competition and help celebrate this 1-year milestone<br />
since the relaunch. I get to judge a number of<br />
competitions each year and it is always so exciting<br />
to see the diversity of the entries, along with some<br />
outstanding quality photographs that I would have<br />
been proud to take myself.<br />
WHAT WERE YOU LOOKING FOR WHEN GOING<br />
THROUGH ALL OF THE PHOTOS?<br />
I think with photography competitions to make<br />
the first cut an image has to grab your attention in<br />
some way, a bold image always helping in making<br />
it stand out. It then it comes down to the three key<br />
elements of any successful photograph: subject,<br />
composition, and lighting. An image might be of a<br />
great subject and shot in some beautiful light, but<br />
if it lacks the 3rd element of a strong composition,<br />
it will fail overall as an award-winning image. After<br />
a first pick, I started to look deeper at the technical<br />
quality of the photographs and slowly thin down the<br />
selection. Picking an overall winner from the last few is<br />
always hard and to win it needs something to make it<br />
more than just a pretty looking and technically good<br />
photograph.<br />
WHAT WAS YOUR PROCESS FOR JUDGING,<br />
HOW DID YOU GET IT DOWN TO JUST 1<br />
WINNER?<br />
Well… I had a little help! I am currently on the West<br />
Coast running a workshop, so I decided to get my<br />
group to help judge. I picked a final <strong>12</strong> photographs<br />
and got them to offer their opinions on these before<br />
I chose the winning image.<br />
ANYTHING ELSE YOU’D LIKE TO ADD?<br />
If you did not win and feel that you have an awardwinning<br />
shot, enter it into another competition! I have<br />
had photographs that have won a major competition<br />
but not been selected in much smaller ones. Judging<br />
any competition is very subjective and I am sure<br />
another judge would pick a different winner to myself.<br />
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Interview with<br />
Serge Ramelli<br />
Judge of the Creative<br />
Category<br />
http://www.sergeramelliphotos.com/<br />
HOW DID YOU GET STARTED IN<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY?<br />
Back in 2004, I was trying to get into acting and<br />
directing movies. It was really hard back then<br />
because there was no DSLR that could make videos<br />
and so I was trying to make these short films and<br />
I was going nowhere. One day somebody showed<br />
me Photoshop and it really hit me that I could take<br />
photos. The problem with movie making was that<br />
I needed to have a team; a gaffer, actors, lights, etc<br />
and with photography all I needed was 1 camera and<br />
1 software like Photoshop to retouch it or process the<br />
raw files. So that’s how I started – I’ve always wanted<br />
to have art in my life and I realised that I could create<br />
art through photography without many resources.<br />
HOW DID PHOTOGRAPHY BECOME YOUR<br />
CAREER?<br />
The first 5 or 6 years after ‘discovering’ photography<br />
all I did was photos of Paris, I’d go out after work (the<br />
day job!) with my camera. But then I started to get<br />
enquiries, first from people who wanted to learn how<br />
to take photos like mine which got me into teaching<br />
but also from publishers and galleries.<br />
WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO OTHERS<br />
WHO WANT TO MAKE PHOTOGRAPHY THEIR<br />
FULL-TIME JOB?<br />
First of all, study photography until you are satisfied<br />
with your own work. Find mentors, study tutorials,<br />
reverse engineer the shots you like, in that process of<br />
‘copying’ you will find your own style and voice. Then<br />
create a website with just a few images – your very<br />
best work.<br />
Next, I believe that if you want to make money with<br />
photography, the easiest thing to do is interior design<br />
photography so real estate, hotels, restaurants etc.<br />
or weddings. There’s so much need in both of these<br />
industries that it’s a good way to get started. Even if<br />
you have no interest in shooting interiors or brides and<br />
want to get into fashion or fine art, it will bring in the<br />
money and you can work on your personal projects<br />
on the side because these latter things take time to<br />
build into a business.<br />
CAN YOU CHOOSE A SINGLE FAVOURITE<br />
PHOTO?<br />
One of the photos I’m most proud of is this one<br />
showing the stairs in Montmartre (next page). These<br />
are the only stairs that face west. I went there about<br />
<strong>12</strong> times and it was always full of people, or trash,<br />
or I didn’t get the right sky then one night it was just<br />
magical. I’ve already made 1 book cover with this<br />
photo and it will probably make it onto the cover of a<br />
2nd book I’m doing about Paris too.<br />
HOW DID YOU FEEL WHEN WE APPROACHED<br />
YOU ABOUT JUDGING THE CREATIVE<br />
CATEGORY FOR THE WE ARE ONE<br />
COMPETITION?<br />
I’m always excited to be a judge because it means<br />
people trust my opinion so for me it’s one of the<br />
biggest honours I can have. I love photography<br />
and I love to see what people have to say, how<br />
they express themselves, especially in the creative<br />
category which is kind of crazy!<br />
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WHAT WERE YOU LOOKING FOR WHEN<br />
GOING THROUGH THE ENTRIES, HOW DID YOU<br />
NARROW IT DOWN TO SELECT A WINNER?<br />
What I look for is, of course, the quality of the photo<br />
itself – If it has too many technical issues it grabs my<br />
attention but in the wrong way. I work with a points<br />
system so I’m looking at how the photo is composed,<br />
the creativeness, the foreground, background and<br />
middle ground elements etc. but mainly I’m looking<br />
at the subject – What is this photo? What’s the photo<br />
trying to say? I was really impressed by the creativity of<br />
entries and had narrowed the selection down to a few<br />
before going back to look at the photos over and over<br />
to see which one created the most emotion for me.<br />
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We Are One Photo Competition<br />
Documentary Category<br />
Judged by Darius Stevens<br />
WINNER:<br />
Steve Harper<br />
HIGHLY COMMENDED:<br />
Ben Campbell<br />
Sam Richardson<br />
Yasen Georgiev<br />
Greg Arnold<br />
Steve Harper has won the DSLR Video for<br />
Photographers Course Bundle from<br />
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WINNER<br />
CANCER<br />
Hands held as chemotherapy is administered.<br />
Steve Harper
HIGHLY<br />
COMMENDED<br />
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POLYFEST<br />
Elijah Maisog gets her make up adjusted<br />
before hitting the stage at ASB Polyfest <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Ben Campbell<br />
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SPIN DRIFT OVER FRANZ<br />
A climber (Nick Higson) climbing the final few steps of the west<br />
face of the Minarets in Mt Cook national park. Carrying his skis,<br />
Nick climbed and skied off his first ever 3000 m peak on a fine<br />
day in the southern alps.<br />
Sam Richardson<br />
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HIGHLY<br />
COMMENDED<br />
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HUMANS' BEST FRIENDS<br />
I attended a wedding where the bride was with her dog "Christmas". I immediately felt the strong connection between<br />
them and as soon as the ritual ended the dog came and started jumping around her and wanted a kiss. I am very happy<br />
that I was on the right spot to picture this frame and show the strong connection between the bride and Christmas.<br />
Yasen Georgiev<br />
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HIGHLY<br />
COMMENDED<br />
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HIGHLY<br />
COMMENDED<br />
SOLACE<br />
The luxury of "tailor made", when life is<br />
punctuated with "but ends"! Wellington.<br />
Greg Arnold<br />
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THE MORNING AFTER<br />
A young girl going out to play in the morning<br />
while the adults sleep off the the results of the<br />
previous night. Just another day in her life.<br />
Karen Moffatt-McLeod<br />
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WINNING THE CUP<br />
Winning the Cup, Viva Eclectica <strong>2018</strong> – A<br />
fusion of music and dance across cultures<br />
performed by The Tapasya School from India<br />
and the Bulgarian Roses.<br />
Nick Kabzamalov<br />
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PROPER PREPARATION<br />
A real kiwi kid, barefoot in winter but well<br />
prepared.<br />
C. Humphries<br />
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FORMER GLORY<br />
This old house continues to attract my attention<br />
each time I pass it. While now needing some<br />
tender love and care I can imagine how<br />
impressive it looked in its heyday. I also would<br />
like to open the front door to see what family<br />
memories and treasures are stored there.<br />
John Kelly<br />
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TIME FOR MEDICINE<br />
My mum treating a sick calf with medicine.<br />
She was a veterinarian in the Philippines turned<br />
to a dairy farmer here in New Zealand.<br />
Dice Sales<br />
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FRESH SHOOTS<br />
PHOTO COMPETITION<br />
ENTER<br />
The competition is split into four quarterly competitions based on each of<br />
the four seasons.<br />
Submissions for Spring season are now OPEN<br />
To submit your image and see T&Cs please go to: www.excio.io/freshshoots<br />
CATEGORIES<br />
NATURE PEOPLE CREATIVE EVENTS<br />
PRIZES<br />
SENIOR - overall winner<br />
Voucher from Nikon NZ worth $400 &<br />
WPS Society membership valued at $84<br />
JUNIOR - overall winner<br />
A place on a New Zealand Photography<br />
Workshop in Wellington<br />
View category prizes here: www.excio.io/freshshoots<br />
PARTNERS
We Are One Photo Competition<br />
Creative Photography Category<br />
Judged by Serge Ramelli<br />
WINNER:<br />
Dice Sales<br />
HIGHLY COMMENDED:<br />
Karen Moffatt-McLeod<br />
Dice Sales has won the<br />
Complete Photography Training Course from<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
61
TOUCH THE SUN<br />
I was going to shoot landscapes at sunset but<br />
the thick fog started rolling in so I came up with<br />
this image instead. I'm really happy with it. The<br />
sun was diffused by the fog making it looked<br />
like an energy ball.<br />
Dice Sales<br />
62 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
WINNER<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
63
I FLOAT ALONE<br />
I wanted to create a minimalist monochrome image<br />
that gave the impression of someone hanging<br />
suspended in the dark with a dream-state, ethereal<br />
feel to it.<br />
Karen Moffatt-McLeod<br />
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64 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
RANGITOTO SUNRISE<br />
Long exposure of Rangitoto Island from<br />
Takapuna just after sunrise.<br />
Paul Roberts<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
65
REDWOODS<br />
Redwoods in Rotorua.<br />
Elodie Faure<br />
66 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
67
MOON AND LIGHTS<br />
Composite with moon and airport lights one early<br />
morning.<br />
Steve Harper<br />
68 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
69
LIGHT PAINTING<br />
I was just messing around trying out some light<br />
painting and I got this shot.<br />
Brin Griffiths<br />
70 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
71
FREE-WHEELIN'<br />
I found some of my childhood toys (and brought some more as the creative<br />
photography juices started to flow). For this photo I wanted to show a bit of<br />
movement but I wasn't sure how that would work out. I started taking some<br />
photos of the toys frozen but that wasn't quite working, so I experimented<br />
with movement. I had my camera on a tripod and did different motions with<br />
the camera taking a photo at the same time. In the end I layered two photos<br />
together to get the clarity of the toys and the blurred photo to show the<br />
movement. It ended up better than I expected.<br />
Tanya Rowe<br />
72 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
73
CONTEMPORARY ART IN<br />
AUCKLAND ART GALLERY<br />
Contemporary Art in Auckland Art Gallery - Infinity<br />
Mirror Rooms.<br />
Nick Kabzamalov<br />
74 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
75
UUUUULLLLAAA!<br />
The night sky behind the Brooklyn Windmill in<br />
Wellington. It looks awfully like a Martian war<br />
machine!<br />
Philip Banks<br />
76 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
77
SMOKEY SHAPES<br />
Having some fun with smoke and shapes with the<br />
Manawatu Camera Club.<br />
Jim Jefferies<br />
78 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
79
FROM ONE LIFE TO THE NEXT<br />
A cat has nine lives. Here with a double exposure we see the<br />
cat progressing from one life to its next.<br />
John Kelly<br />
80 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
81
BLACK SAND<br />
At Piha Beach, I noticed that the shoes my friend was wearing caught the light in a similar way as<br />
the water from washed-out waves did. Editing in colour made it nigh-on impossible to really get the<br />
deepness of the black Piha sand without sacrificing the detail on the shoes, so grayscale was used<br />
to maintain a high contrast without bloating the black values.<br />
Jeremy McLean<br />
82 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
83
SUPER JUMPING INTO SPRING<br />
While chasing fog above Mt Victoria on the first morning of<br />
Spring we stumbled across these cool little mushrooms. By<br />
chance I had a controller in the car at the time and the idea<br />
sparked. With the help of a buddy I pulled off this real life Super<br />
Mario shot!<br />
Peem Anakakul<br />
84 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
We Are One Photo Competition<br />
Landscape & Nature Category<br />
Judged by Richard Young<br />
WINNER:<br />
Mike White<br />
HIGHLY COMMENDED:<br />
Mark Watson<br />
Jo Mohi<br />
Glenda Rees<br />
Peter Laurenson<br />
Mike White has won the Benro FH100 M2 Filter<br />
Holder Kit & Hard Grad Filter from<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
85
WINNER<br />
86 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
AFTER THE STORM<br />
We left Invercargill mid-morning and had no destination fixed in our mind. Weather forecasts were average in all<br />
directions. On a whim, we turned left at the intersection to Queenstown or Te Anau and eventually drove to Milford<br />
Sound, arriving in the late afternoon. This image was taken just as the clouds were starting to break and the setting sun<br />
was intermittently shining like a lighthouse beacon down the fiord. Here you can see the sun highlighting Stirling Falls,<br />
The Lion and the entrance to Harrison Cove. Not to be outdone, Sinbad Gully, to the left of Mitre Peak, featured lots<br />
of misty patches clinging to the steep mountain slopes and I particularly like the way the light forms silhouettes of the<br />
range from the Footstool extending back towards Mitre Peak. If you look closely, you might make out the silhouettes<br />
of onlookers watching the spectacle from the shore - dwarfed by the landscape in front of them.<br />
Mike White
FREE<br />
This dolphin was enjoying it's day and happy<br />
to perform for the camera.<br />
Mark Watson<br />
88 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
HIGHLY<br />
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<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
89
HIGHLY<br />
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MISTY SUNRISE ON LAKE TAUPO<br />
It was a crisp and beautiful morning in Taupo. I grabbed my camera and darted<br />
across the road to capture the mist lifting from the lake. It was one of the most<br />
beautiful mornings I’ve experienced.<br />
Jo Mohi<br />
90 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
91
HIGHLY<br />
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92 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
THE CATCH WAS WORTH THE SWIM!<br />
A male rifleman (New Zealand's smallest bird) was foraging near a creek when<br />
it popped up on this rock with a fly in it's beak.<br />
Glenda Rees<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
93
TROUBLED WATERS<br />
Dawn view south east to Mount Taranaki,<br />
across the icy windswept largest Pouakai Track tarn.<br />
Peter Laurenson<br />
94 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
HIGHLY<br />
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<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
95
96 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
TARANAKI EVENING<br />
While travelling south of New Plymouth, I saw this scene<br />
in the late afternoon light and stopped to get the shot.<br />
Jason Langman<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
97
98 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
IN EARTH, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN<br />
Tekapo, New Zealand<br />
Peter Kurdulija<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
99
OHAU TRANQUILLITY<br />
Dusk at Lake Ohau. Shot using a polarising<br />
and 6 stop ND filter.<br />
Lynne Roberts<br />
100 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
101
STARGAZING AT THE POOLS<br />
Late night missions on the west coast of NZ are one of my favourite<br />
things to do. This long exposure was taken at 3am, just as the milky<br />
way core was dropping down onto the horizon. With the help of my girl<br />
lighting up the rock pools in the foreground it did not disappoint!<br />
Peem Anakakul<br />
102 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
BULLERS ALBATROSS<br />
Bullers Albatross enjoying the waters off the<br />
Kaikoura Coast.<br />
Teresa Angell<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
103
ATA<br />
Old cabbage trees in a forest, waiting<br />
as a group for their maker.<br />
Marie Valencia<br />
104 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
105
THAT WANAKA TREE<br />
Taken with a Canon 6D with a 24-70mm zoom set<br />
at 65mm. I used a 6 stop filter combined with a<br />
LEE .9 Hard Grad Filter to darken the sky.<br />
Mark Sutton<br />
106 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
107
STRANDED<br />
In the end, neither kindness nor technology could save this stranded pair. The calf of this majestic humpback<br />
whale died the morning before, a few meters down the beach in sight of her here shown mother. In this moment<br />
of sorrow, we are reminded of the nature and essence of our shared existence. The photograph was taken in<br />
the early morning of August 8th at Baylys Beach, Northland, New Zealand.<br />
Matthias H. Risse<br />
108 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
109
MILKY WAY OVER TASMAN LAKE<br />
The Milky Way rising over an iceberg filled Tasman Lake and the<br />
mountains in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park. Seven stacks<br />
of eight images stitched together to form a <strong>12</strong>0 degree vertical<br />
panorama.<br />
Antony Foster
THE FLOOD<br />
Taken in a flooded paddock alongside the mighty Waikato River which is the strip of water in<br />
the background. I walk my dogs here and the light is often this lovely soft golden colour at<br />
sunset. When I took my shot there was a heavy localised shower so the water is disturbed and<br />
I didn't get reflections but the sun still shone in the distance.<br />
Nichola Smith<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
111
MAJESTIC HORSES<br />
Horses roaming the hills near Lake Onslow, Millers Flat.<br />
Anna Stewart
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
113
114 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
CATCHING A QUICK LUNCH<br />
This photo was taken in the Kowhai trees in Hamilton,<br />
Waikato. I just happened to see the Tui with something in<br />
its mouth, so I walked towards it while I was clicking away<br />
and happened to get this shot. Just luck really!! Taken with a<br />
Nikon D7200 and Nikon AF-S 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G VR lens.<br />
Cara Rintoul<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
115
STAR TRAILS OVER TASMAN LAKE<br />
This photo was taken during a crisp and clear night in Mount Cook. We took the Tasman<br />
Lake track to the end and could see the ice floating in the water with the snow-capped<br />
mountains in the background. My original intent behind the photo was to get a foreground<br />
shot that I would merge with one of the stars. However, I really like the result of this single<br />
shot with the pink airglow in the sky and the star trails reflecting in the lake.<br />
Jackie Foster<br />
116 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
117
PATH TO THE LIGHTHOUSE<br />
6.11 am at Castle Point.<br />
Shannon Clamp<br />
118 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
119
DAHLIA<br />
A Macro shot of a dahlia at<br />
Christchurch Botanical Garden.<br />
Grant Beedie<br />
<strong>12</strong>0 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
<strong>12</strong>1
HAWKDUNS FROM FALLS DAM<br />
The image was made on a very chilly evening on the road<br />
above Falls Dam looking towards the Hawkdun Range.<br />
Stuart Braithwaite<br />
<strong>12</strong>2 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
<strong>12</strong>3
<strong>12</strong>4 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong><br />
HOT WATERFALL<br />
Nothing beats the feeling of standing in water shooting a<br />
stunning location especially when the water is hot.<br />
Karl Tretheway
TWO WAY STREET<br />
This is a seven image vertical panorama captured in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park. It was a moody day<br />
with strong winds and on and off rain. The arrows and painted lines on the road help draw the viewer down the<br />
road to the large moody mountain in the background. Although a classic shot for this area and widely over<br />
photographed I always try to think outside the box to create an image different than any others I have seen.<br />
Andrew Korson<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
<strong>12</strong>5
STANMORE BAY SUNSET<br />
The locals enjoy a stroll down through the beach after work<br />
before sunset as the sun catches the sea mist. The locals here<br />
were very friendly and curious about what we were up to as we<br />
shot seascapes after this.<br />
Joel Staveley<br />
<strong>12</strong>6 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
<strong>12</strong>7
SUMMER FUN<br />
The photo was taken at Bethelles beach Auckland. It was one of the most stunning sunsets I<br />
have ever witnessed. It is an HDR bracketed at -2, 0 and +2ev merged in Lightroom.<br />
Prashant Joshi<br />
<strong>12</strong>8 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
<strong>12</strong>9
130 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
ONE TREE MOON<br />
I had been chasing to get the moon behind the One Tree Hill for almost 2 years now,<br />
trying multiple different locations but had failed for one reason or the other. When<br />
the opportunity came up earlier this year - I was delighted that the weather was<br />
great and I got my shot - what an incredible sight. Shot as part of a timelapse.<br />
Kunal Kumar<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
131
HOOKER LAKE<br />
Aoraki / Mount Cook as seen from the end of the Hooker Valley Track,<br />
with the Hooker Glacier's moraine lake in the foreground. Mt Cook was<br />
hidden behind clouds.<br />
Thiranja Babarenda Gamage<br />
132 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
133
WHARARIKI<br />
Located at the top of the South Island is Wharariki beach and<br />
the Archway Islands. This area offers stunning sea views and the<br />
opportunity to get up close with some of New Zealand's wildlife, with<br />
seal pups playing within the sheltered shallows of the rock pools. Just<br />
to the left of the shot is about 15 tourists who had ventured out to take<br />
selfies capturing the last of the evening light.<br />
Rick Hunt<br />
134 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
135
PONSONBY WHARF<br />
Ponson Wharf after sunset. A long exposure shot.<br />
Jagdip Gohil<br />
136 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
137
SEA OF CLOUDS<br />
Low-flying clouds embracing the city of<br />
Christchurch at dusk.<br />
Dice Sales<br />
138 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
139
TUKI TUKI ROAD<br />
Early one morning (for humans at least) life is busy starting the new day...<br />
Tuki Tuki Road follows the Tuki Tuki River and Valley and source, arriving<br />
at the sea by Haumoana. Classic Hawkes Bay scenery!<br />
Lindsay Gibb
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
141
TE HENGA ASCENSION<br />
Another inky black night spent finding solace in the stars<br />
out at Te Henga. 22 vertical image panorama (2 rows),<br />
stitched and processed in LR.<br />
Tim Firkin<br />
142 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
143
HIGH ALPINE KEA<br />
A cheeky Kea taking flight over the Bonar glacier after a<br />
busy afternoon of attacking climbing gear. The glint in its<br />
eye promises further trouble making.<br />
Sam Richardson<br />
144<strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
145
CURIOUS KEA<br />
This curious Kea was admiring my shiny lens so I took<br />
advantage to grab this shot!<br />
Charlotte Johnson<br />
146 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
147
TONGARIRO THREE<br />
An amazing winter hike to Emerald Lakes in Tongariro National Park is rewarded<br />
with views of all three mountains, Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe and Tongariro.<br />
Paul Roberts
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
149
150 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
PRINCESS BAY AURORA<br />
An unexpected but outstandingly strong display of the Aurora Australis delighted Aurora<br />
hunters and unsuspecting night dwellers alike, out and about on Wellington's South<br />
Coast in August. This display was visible to the naked eye, even under a completely full<br />
moon. This group enjoying a calm but chilly evening under the stars were delighted to<br />
watch the curtains of light flicker overhead after I pointed them out!<br />
Brendan Gully<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 151
TUI PINK<br />
Shot of a Tui taken on the Main St of<br />
Ruatoria where 30 Tui were enjoying<br />
the morning sun.<br />
Doone Harrison<br />
152 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
GANNET POINT<br />
Sunset at Gannet Point, the gannet colony at<br />
Muriwai, Auckland.<br />
Nick Kabzamalov<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
153
YOUR PHOTOS.<br />
EVERYWHERE.<br />
H O W M A N Y P E O P L E<br />
W I L L S E E Y O U R W O R K<br />
T O M O R R O W ?<br />
FIND OUT NOW<br />
154 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong><br />
w w w . e x c i o . i o
We Are One Photo Competition<br />
Street Photography Category<br />
Judged by Blair Quax<br />
WINNER:<br />
Dice Sales<br />
HIGHLY COMMENDED:<br />
Thore Saggau<br />
Shane Petterd<br />
C. Humphries<br />
Lindsay Gibb<br />
Dice Sales has won the Everyday Sling 10L<br />
Charcoal Bag from<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
155
156 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
WINNER<br />
FOR THE 'GRAM'<br />
People nowadays, kids, millennials and older generations, are really fond of<br />
social media. They posts images, stories, and videos to document moments<br />
and their life. This was taken in a famous spot in Christchurch because of the<br />
beautiful cherry blossoms during spring.<br />
Dice Sales<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 157
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158 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
STARING<br />
I took this picture in Ashburton as I<br />
walked through town to explore it<br />
a bit. The cat seemed to be pretty<br />
amazed by the sunset and the clouds<br />
as she stared at it all the time.<br />
Thore Saggau<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
159
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THE BUCKET FOUNTAIN<br />
The iconic Bucket Fountain in Wellington's in Cuba<br />
Mall with the lights and colours of Cosmic.<br />
Shane Petterd<br />
160 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
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THE FOX AND THE MAIDEN<br />
Taken on The Marine Parade, Napier, during Art Deco Weekend 2011. The image<br />
portrays a bygone style and attitude.... The shot had to be taken!<br />
Lindsay Gibb<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
161
HIGHLY<br />
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162 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
TOGETHER ALONE<br />
Morning coffee break in Auckland city offers<br />
workers a chance to connect.<br />
C. Humphries<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
163
DUNEDIN TRAIN STATION<br />
This is a different angle on street photography but I absolutely love this photo of<br />
the Dunedin Train Station reflected in a puddle. I especially love the transition<br />
between the sky and the footpath.<br />
Tanya Rowe<br />
164 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
165
THE ALLEYWAY<br />
While walking around Wellington shopping I was a<br />
bit lost when I saw the alleyway. I really like how the<br />
street is painted so I had to take the shot.<br />
Brin Griffiths<br />
166 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
TRIP TO TOWN<br />
On a trip to town with family, I took this shot of<br />
Grandpa and Grandson walking down the street. I<br />
liked the effect of black & white to set the mood!<br />
Di Lewis<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
167
BUSY MORNING IN WELLINGTON<br />
Nick Kabzamalov<br />
168 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
169
HARLEY RIDER<br />
A Harley Rider lights up after riding from Christchurch to<br />
Whitianga for the Gathering.<br />
Karen Moffatt-McLeoad<br />
170 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
171
WAITING'<br />
The early morning light catching the elderly commuter waiting<br />
for her ferry caught my eye. Originally in colour I changed it to<br />
B&W to give it a more classical feeling.<br />
Gail Orgias<br />
172 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
173
SECRET CONVERSATION<br />
Wellington 2017<br />
Greg Arnold<br />
174 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
175
BUSKING IN QUEEN STREET<br />
The music from this busker was very loud and very lively<br />
and he drew quite a crowd.<br />
Nichola Smith<br />
176 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
177
178 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
STEELBAND PLAYERS<br />
The steelband festival in NZ which<br />
originated in Trinidad and Tobago.<br />
Paul Roberts<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 179
180 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
HOOP GIRL<br />
One of the entertainers at<br />
Wellington Cuba Dupa Festival.<br />
Linda Cutche<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
181
182 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong><br />
"PHOTOGRAPHY IS NOT ABOUT CAMERAS,<br />
GADGETS AND GISMOS. PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
IS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHERS. A CAMERA<br />
DIDN'T MAKE A GREAT PICTURE ANY<br />
MORE THAN A TYPEWRITER WROTE A<br />
GREAT NOVEL."<br />
PETER ADAMS