Day 238

boy has been doing a bit of 'trade me-ing' of late, so today we had to make a trip out to rangiora to pick up some stuff.  it was a stunning day, so we took a drive home the long way and did some shooting. 
have been wanting to do some 'distance' shoots with people being a small part of the photo, but the concentration point of the image.
this was one of the results from that.

days to exhibition 17

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Day 225

the boy and i headed out to his grandmother's today to send the arvo snapping.  his grandmother has this awesome property out past rollerston that has a number of different landscapes within it....fields, forest, garden, pond, sheds..the list goes on.
we did one of our co-ops, which can be seen here.  a little bit of a change in post-production to our other images!
did a whole variety of shooting....this didn't quite work out how i wanted it to...seems to be a bit of a reoccurring theme of late :(

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Day 220

caught up with kat & matt tonite to hear the latest on the wedding, and for a general catch up really.  wedding plans have changed, again!  hehe - this could be a 'find out the venue the day before' wedding!  at least it'll be in the vicinity of akl, they've got that much sorted!




have been meaning to get a photo of 'flour power' for ages, and tonite was as good an opportunity as ever. i first heard of the artist, regan gentry, a few years ago when he had a exhibition at the dowse all based around gorse. i saw him interviewed and he had become obsessed with the stuff....even made gorse cake. i found it so interesting, using this widespread weed as inspiration and to therefore create so many different pieces of art around it.


the following year 'flour power' was commissioned by the public art advisory group and installed in central chc as part of the scape biennale in 2008. the concept is similar to views close to my own...probably to many. all in all, it's a great piece of art, particularly at night. similarly his pieces that were outside te papa, look great during the day, awesome at night.

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Day 199

boy and i finally got out and did another 'co-op' today.  we keep planning to do them and then get sidetracked with other things.  we have a few up our sleeve to do at the moment, really need to progress and better the last one.  today's image didn't necessarily achieve that, but it almost bettered the 'timing' factor of the spade one, which we did right next to a primary school at 3pm! (i had got all confused and thought it was end of term and that the kids had finished at 2 that day).
well today we went to hagley park right on lunch hour.  to be honest, there weren't that many weird or questioning looks... makes you wonder what usually goes on down there!

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Day 197

awoke to a stunning day today, which was fabulous, as i was headed down to the gardens to do a photoshoot with my cousin and her whanau. as per yesterday's post, i had visited the garden's the day before to check out some locations, and double check the light.
we had a super-fun morning with misbehaving children, well not so much misbehaving, but a lot of over the top smiling and poking out of tongues. so in the end i had to just keep shooting, i realised that continually shooting made the kids realise that it wasn't a 'special' thing when you did press the button, so they relaxed...more so luca...charlotte was just copying big bro most of the time.
after a good hour and a half session, which did include some games of mr wolf and the like, we headed over to arts centre for coffee and ice cream and a chillax in the sun.

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Day 196

boy and i were doing a bit of a recce in the gardens this morning for a shoot i am doing tomorrow with my cousins. gotta have a bit of fun while you work, aye!!
ok, so really, i am just a lil crazy.

boy

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Day 192

omg it was warm today, so warm i even managed to put a dress on(ok with leggings). needed to do work tho, so trundled off to the library again and sat in the sun. left before it was dark, so we could shoot some pics in the fading light of the day. oh i am looking forward to daylight saving.

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