Stop taking selfies and enter this photography competition instead

Carter Obser­vat­ory, that big old bubble up on the hill, is run­ning a pho­to­graphy con­test with a butt­load of prizes, and you should enter it. The title is “Light & Dark” and any­thing under that goes.  Judges include Mark Gee, who you may remem­ber from such moon pho­tos as this. There’s a kids’ cat­egory too, […]

Somewhere on Planet Earth

In April 2012, Mon­ica Yeo­man and Dave Hen­ley set out on a bicycle jour­ney through Asia. Nine months, nine coun­tries and 15,0000km later, they’ve pack­aged the whole thing up into a live show partly to help fun­draise for their next trip around Africa and also to raise funds for Bicycles-for-Humanity.org  Yes Some­where on Plan­et Earth is a travel […]

Wellington Night Markets

Before head­ing out on vaca­tion, I star­ted plan­ning for a nice photo-post of the Wel­ling­ton Night Mar­kets. I was dead keen to get it pho­to­graphed and writ­ten before head­ing home, but in my des­per­a­tion, I failed to string words togeth­er. So, this time I’m skip­ping the words and get­ting on with it. Bet­ter late than […]

Narrative Playgrounds group show at Pixel Ink Gallery

Nar­rat­ive Play­grounds is a group exhib­i­tion at Pixel Ink Gal­lery of visu­al works by emer­ging and estab­lished New Zea­l­and artists. The com­mon theme of the show is that the work is inspired by stor­ies and the ima­gin­a­tion. Gal­lery dir­ect­or, Ros­alind Clark, said the exhib­i­tion is all about trans­lat­ing the ima­gin­a­tion onto a blank can­vas. The artist’s brief was to […]