Queenstown to Christchurch
I stayed in Queenstown just long enough to look around — nice place, but way too tourist oriented. They have a gondola up the side of the valley, with a bungi jump site at the top, I spent a good deal of time getting photos of the bungi setup, and yet more time taking photos of the view.
Tech bit: I did a panoramic HDR shot, it’s going to take some considerable effort to put together, and some ingenuity to get the HDR thing to work. The allignment is the simple bit, but once I export it as a multi layer photoshop file, I’m not really too sure what to do with it. It must have been a good 30 shots at 3 diferent exposures to get diferent stuff in DR. I took a load of bungi jumps from the same viewpoint as well, so I should be able to stich one of them into it as well.
Up the gondola:
I took a look around some of the more interesting parts of Queenstown, and sat on the beach (pictured above) to take sunset photos, the results wern’t spectacular, but worth posting:
The road north, including a really large center pivot irrigator:
Aouraki Mt Cook, I’m informed that it is very rare to see it exposed like this, even the bus driver was out taking photos:
I met up with some folks that I knew on the way north and stayed with them for a few days, they had some friends that were nutters, especially the one in the driver’s seat with the hat on:
I’m perticularly proud of the first one of the kids (6109), it’s technically a very good shot, I didn’t even crop it.