Showing posts with label Roadtrip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roadtrip. Show all posts

Sunday, 22 January 2012

Daily Photo Challenge Week 3

This week saw us road tripping to Tauranga then onto the Coromandel.  Fortunately this meant lots and lots of photographic inspiration, and for once I was spoilt for choice when it came to posting my favourites!

Baby Mila and Mummy 
Rena Fail

Lucky buggers!

Big Brown Eyes

Morning Walk with Dadda

McLarens Falls

Cathedral Cove

Shakespeare's Cliff

Friday, 30 December 2011

The remainder of our Christmas Road Trip

So between looking after a pretty sick child (he has a chest infection poor little man!), road tripping to Ngaruawahia, Thames, then Mangawhai, time to edit has been scarce.  However, here are the rest of my photos from Christmas!

Opening presents on Christmas morning at home

Playing down at Aunty Vicki's School (Thames)

Coles Family Shots



Me and my monkey!



Dadda and Ash feeding the ducks


Family photo in Thames



Sunset at Thames, Boxing Day




Rapaura Gardens

Tuesday, 27 December 2011

Finally nailed it!

This afternoon we got back from our mini Xmas road trip.  My parents live down in the Waikato, and my wonderful sister in law lives in Thames so this year we decided to spend two nights seeing family and eating as much as we could handle.

The trip was great, we had full tummies and lots of laughs with both sets of families.  However, I had one mishap - I managed to break my 50mm lens.  I was absoloutely devastated (still am!).  However, looking on the bright side, at least it was the cheapest lens I have and not my camera, but it does mean the long awaited upgrade I have been wanting for my 75-300mm will just have to wait...

Today, we drove up to Rapaura Water Gardens which is just north of Thames by Tapu.  Its $15 to do a 45 minutes walk and visit various gardens and lilly ponds.  Its not really worth the money, but I wanted to try and get a shot of their waterfall.  I've been trying to get that silky effect for months, but never had the settings right, or the weather has been too sunny, or hubby has been rushing me.  But today I went in knowing exactly what to do - and I was very happy with the result!!

Settings: F 32, Shutter 0.8", Iso 100