I thought it was about time to revisit a series I started a while ago looking at some of the great offroad adventures you can have in Australia. Today I’ll be talking about the Gibb River Road, perhaps one of Australia’s most famous outback four wheel drive routes. First things first. Whilst iconic – and […]
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Picking the Right Camera Lens and Other Photography Accessories
Today’s post on picking the right camera lens and photography accessories is a part of my series of photography tips. Whilst every article can be read on its own, I’d recommend you give the others a look through to have a more complete understanding of various photography topics, so you can start taking better photos. Today […]
The Coromandel Peninsula
The Coromandel Peninsula is not a place for people who suffer motion sickness. In particular, motion sickness of the car based variety. This is a place where the roads are windy. Seriously windy. And steep. And often, a surface that is just dirt with a sprinkling of gravel. In some places in fact, the road […]
Mountains, gorges (and hobbits)
Since leaving the rather wonderful scenery of Rotorua behind us, our trip has slowly wended us up the New Zealand north island towards the Coromandel Peninsula. This area is not too dissimilar from your quintessential English countryside, in fact, in some parts, more so. The small town of Cambridge, I am fairly certain, is more […]
Volcanic Rotorua
Holidays are amazing. Even though I’ve technically been on holiday for nearly two years now, the break from the admittedly not too stressful job I’ve been working at for the last month or so certainly felt like a holiday. A change of scenery, new stuff, being on the road again. So it was with seriously […]
The Raurimu Spiral
When you are asked to think of amazing engineering marvels across the world, I guess a few likely suspects will pop into your head. Maybe the Pyramids, or the Great Wall of China, or the Golden Gate bridge, or one of the countless viaducts and aqueducts that the Romans left scattered all over the place. […]
The Pillars of Hercules
The Tongariro National Park and it’s surroundings, I am starting to realise, are a little bit like Venice. Full of canals and gondolas. No wait. Well, actually there are some canals, but that’s not my point. My point is that the main parts of it, and in particular the Alpine Crossing, are incredibly full of […]
The Tongariro Holiday Park
Home, so the saying goes, is where the heart is. Which, given that my heart is located somewhere inside my chest cavity, would suggest that home is wherever I am. Currently however, and for at least the foreseeable future, home is at the Tongariro Holiday Park, so I figured I would tell you a bit […]
Taranaki Falls
The Tongariro National Park, which I am living beside, is largely famous (and a dual World Heritage site) because of the three rather awesome giant mountains that sit within it. But an 80,000 hectare park is always going to have more to offer than “just” three towering mountains. And so we went for a walk […]
Polarizing Filters in Photography
Today in my ongoing series of photography tips, which have thus far covered depth of field and composition amongst other topics, I will be looking at the subject of polarizing filters, and why you would want to use a polarizing filter as a photographer. Hopefully you will find something in this post that helps you […]