Scenes from Christchurch

It has been way too long since my last update, it's amazing how working in a camera shop can dampen your photographic spirit.  I've taken lots of photos since October though, there are heaps of great photos from a trip to Asia with my Dad in January, I like so many of them that I wouldn't know where to start if I shared them.

For now - a familiar theme, a few photos from Christchurch City.  I wonder what the urban landscape will look like in five years time, I wonder if I will still be here?

 

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Impromptu Pictures

 Last Sunday morning, before I went to work at the camera shop, I took a stroll along one edge of the city cordon.  The centre of town is still closed off because of earthquake damage.

I took a bunch of polaroid photos in my medium format camera.

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Remember these streets?

I took photos through fences on the afternoon of Easter Sunday.

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Scenes from Christchurch

Nature gave Christchurch another photo op.

Impromptu Pictures

Earlier this month I took some photos for a musical theatre poster, I finally had a look through them today and there are some pretty cool pictures there.  It was a little raunchy.  I might share pictures next year.

I visited Oamaru with my parents and we made these photos:

And last weekend, I decided to run a film through my Holga, which hasn't happened in a while. Parts of town were closed due to some earthquake damage, and they're still pulling down the building that was deemed unsafe after the bigger one in September.

Impromptu Pictures

After I finished working with Canta for the year, I had my exams, and since then I haven't made much of an effort toward photos.  I'll be back at university part time in the first week of January, but there's time before then, and during, and I'll do something.

At some point I plan to head south and take some photos in the historic area of Oamaru.  I should also visit the Ron Mueck exhibition too, while it's in town.

Here is a photo I took on an outing last month:

Flat-Profile & Gig

It's been a short while since the last update, and cool things have happened since.  My work in Canta magazine won Best Original Photography at the 2010 Fairfax Aotearoa Student Press Association (ASPA) Awards.  Canta's last issue for this year has been sent to the printers, I'll miss the flat profiles as they were fun.  I'll post some stuff from this issue on Wednesday when it appears around campus.

In a little over two weeks I will have finished my first year of university, it's a scary thought, seeing the huge amount of revision I need to do before exams.  Photography missions over the summer break will be inevitable.

Here are some flat profile pictures:

Also, here are some photos from a gig at university, on Friday. The Naked and Famous are playing.

Impromptu Pictures

A couple of new photos from Granddad's flat:

Impromptu Pictures

I'm in the mid-semester break from university, and for a short while I am going to ignore the applicable matters at hand (assignments, studying for tests and catching up on lectures I have missed while hurriedly  doing other assignments).  On Tuesday I slept in for quite a while, and had a series of interesting dreams, and while these alternative realities were nice places to be, when I was thinking my experience a short while later in the shower I realised I'm actually quite content with my life.  I was relieved.

This week I snuck into my Granddad's flat and took some pictures.  He hasn't lived here for that long, so the place is by no means "this is Granddad", I just thought it would make some interesting photos.  I got a bit bold with the exposure and overcooked the film, so I'm going to go back another time and be more careful.

Impromptu Pictures

Last Friday I drove away from the city to take some self portraits.  I started doing these 9 months ago, I'm not sure why, and I don't know what it's all about either, but I enjoy it and the series seems interesting.

I went back to the same place I used for last month's competition, and took some pictures with strobe since I was no longer shooting under the competition's constraints.  It's nice to have some sharp pictures to play with!