27 January 2015
I took this shot close to the Peter Yealands Winery one late afternoon.
This is a typical rural South Island road that I use to go for drives on when I was a teenager.
I use this image as my screensaver on my Chrome book. Every time I see it I feel like stepping into the picture to savour the past and enjoy the clarity and emptyness.
17 May 2014 Seddon, South Island, NewZealand Nikon D800 iso 200 70mm f18 1/50sec Nikon 70-200 f4.0
23 November 2014
I only discovered this Brand when in Ginza Japan last year. It was quite an amazing store with lighting more like a night club than a department store. They wouldn’t allow photography in the Japanese store and all the shop assistants were watching me like a hawk.
I managed to deduce 3 reasons why that may be so: I am so good looking that they couldn’t take their eyes off me; my NikonD3 is a great chick magnet; or my dress sense is so sloppy that it could do with an improvement.
Anyway I must have been better dressed in Hong kong as I managed to get this shot…..
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23 November 2014
The clothing stores have three recurring themes in Japan and Hong Kong: Atractive store front people to lure the customers in; dark stairway to lead the customers up and they then make there way down via the shop floors; moody dark lighting to provoke that nightclub “hip” feeling. In Hong Kong the marketing seemed to work judging from the number of “Hollister” bags leaving the store.
The Japanese store was amazing with the number of floors for shopping and the beautiful people inside. All that was missing was the alcohol!
1. 27 March 2013 Ginza Nikon D3s iso200 24mm f2.8 1/4sec Nikon 24-70mm f2.8
2. 28 March 2013 Ginza Nikon D3s iso6400 38mm f2.8 1/45sec Nikon 24-70mm f2.8
3. 4 April 2013 Hong Kong, Causeway Bay Nikon D3s iso 6400 24mm f2.8 1/30sec Nikon 14-24mm f2.8
4. 4 April 2013 Hong Kong, Causeway Bay Nikon D3s iso6400 18mm f3.3 1/30sec Nikon 14-24mm f2.8
5. 4 April 2013 Hong Kong, Causeway Bay Nikon D3s iso6400 14mm f3.3 1/30sec Nikon 14-24mm f2.8