Lydia was working and it was a beautiful hot sunny day (temperature in the high 20’s), so decided to go for a drive in the Port Hills above Christchurch. I took quite a few photos on Summit Rd - this runs along the rim between two volcanic craters (one of which forms Lyttleton Harbour). Lovely views of the ocean (New Brighton Beach in particular), Christchurch and the Southern Alps (a wee bit of snow left) - could also see beyond the haze towards Kaikoura and the Alps extending further North from Christchurch. Morocco and China photos will be up as soon as I get a chance… View photos here or click here for a slideshow.
It’s been a while since I posted anything. Since then I’ve left BEAM and flown halfway around the world via various contries. Posts about China, Macau and Hong Kong are still in the pipeline. Meanwhile, Lydia and I are now safely in beautiful New Zealand and below 43 degrees South of the equator. As such, my new website to promote my work is called Below43.com. My friend Martin Buchan has also recently left BEAM.TV and has a new site at www.postwork.co.uk and a blog here.
Dad just received news he’s in the Street or Studio Tate Modern competition. He was in a group of 100 out of 2600 submissions which is pretty cool! His shot is of a fishmonger in Shanghai sleeping in her fish-bowl. Click the image on the left or click here to view it.
The 100 winners are viewable here. His other submission is here. My submissions were this and this. The views went up slightly on the first one during judging so I was hopeful, but obviously Dad pushed me out of the competition - I’m not jealous at all ;)
Photosynth (a cool Microsoft Labs product which stiches collections of photos together in a 3D panorama) have recently opened up to allow people to submit their own content. I just uploaded a series of photos from Djemaa el Fna at dusk from a restaurant balcony (see video of the square at night in a previous post) - it took a few attempts to get 100% of the photos stitched together (it does it automatically but some photos don’t always match up - you have to edit your submission, remove the images and reupload).
The final result is pretty cool. I think it gives a really good feel for the square and the people in it. To view it click here.
I took loads of photos in Morocco so it will take a while before they are ready to put up on this site. However, in the meantime, here’s a video I took using Lydia’s camera while in the Djemaa El Fna square in Marrakech. The square is amazing - by day its full of orange juice vendors, snake charmers and henna tattoo artists, but at dusk, the smoke starts rising and the drums start drumming and it becomes alive. Its amazing to watch and experience, and hopefully the video gives a tiny hint of that. For more on the square, go here.
Lydia was working and it was a beautiful hot sunny day (temperature in the high 20’s), so decided to go for a drive in the Port Hills above Christchurch. I took quite a few photos on Summit Rd - this runs along the rim between two volcanic craters (one of which forms Lyttleton Harbour). Lovely views of the ocean (New Brighton Beach in particular), Christchurch and the Southern Alps (a wee bit of snow left) - could also see beyond the haze towards Kaikoura and the Alps extending further North from Christchurch. Morocco and China photos will be up as soon as I get a chance… View photos here or click here for a slideshow.
