My resolutions are pretty prosaic and are largely recycled:
● Read more.
● Lose weight.
● Reduce time online.
● Be political.
● Learn something.
● Travel somewhere noteworthy.
● Be a more diligent photographer.
● Keep this blog.
Happy 2025, everyone.
Pilot boats moored at Carey’s Bay, Dunedin.
Lindsay Creek, Dunedin Botanic Gardens
I’m getting a bit more interested in infrared photography and I have a little point and shoot I’ve installed CHDK on – a hack that allows it to shoot RAW – and I’m planning to make a hardware modification to it to turn it into a dedicated full spectrum camera.
In the meantime I have to satisfy myself with slow shutter speeds and a 720nm filter that is best rendered as black and white. Here’s an example from last year.
I’m really into long exposure photography and night shots are an easy way into that. This photo is one I took last year on my Fujifilm X100V.
The Esplanade Restaurant, Dunedin
Really need to do some more of this.
Nothing much going on today, so here’s a photo I took a while back.
It was a glorious late Spring day in Dunedin today and I headed out to the Botanic Gardens to take a few photos. Mainly some test shots with my Pentax K2. I picked up a practically as new edition of the camera for a song recently. It’ll be turning 50 next year.
I haven’t developed the film yet – black and white. I think I overexposed the first few shots as it was Fomapan 400 and as you can see from the digital shot above it was a very bright day. I was shooting in aperture priority. Once I realised that, I stopped my lens down to the f/8-f/16 kind of range and started getting shots below 1/1000.
Anyway, lovely day, photos taken, blog entry completed.
