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 […]