Relay for Life 2009

On the 7th and 8th of March 2009 the Cancer Society held the Relay for Life in sunny Napier. Just over a week prior, volunteer Fire Fighters from Napier station were told about it, and rapidly set to work fund raising and getting ready to participate. The weekend of the Mission Concert (weekend before the…

Wow, it’s been a while…

Yeah yeah yeah. I’m a lazy git and I know it. =P Ok, now let me think, what’s happened over the past … (checks) … 3 months (wow it even feels like it’s been longer than that). Well, let’s look at the key points I guess. Oh, but before I do, I have to say…

05/11/2008 – Day 6

Ok, so last Thursday (30/10/2008) I got my tattoo done. 6 days down and it’s healing quite well I think. It scabbed up a bit and most of it has had it’s peel, so now we’re starting to see the real result. I’m quite happy with it, although I can’t say it’s looking PERFECT. The…

Summer

Well, it’s a beautiful Sunday here, nearing the end of September and just put the clocks forward an hour for daylight savings. It’s been a chilly winter but I’m sure that the impending muggyness will make me wish it was sub-zero again! Work has been busy as hell but I’m planning to make sure I…

Retouching

In a previous post (here) I worked with a photo of me and did some colour correction. Now I’ve done some more work. We’ll call this one Version 3. Version 2 (From Previous Post): Version 3 : This time I’ve done a few things… Firstly I did some cropping and a little more colour correction…

God I love this photo! =P

Flowers Dad gave Mom Originally uploaded by Glitter Girl NZ Uploaded @ 19 Jul ’08, 1.28pm NZST PST Awesome photo taken by one of my friends. She said to me “i suck at photo taking”, and I find this on her flickr shortly after!!! Proves herself wrong quite well I think. =]

Colour Correction

So I’ve been doing some stuff with retouching and colour correction of photos lately, and predominantly in the area of portraits, getting skin colour correct. As a result, I thought I’d put up a before and after of one of the basic pics I have done some really simple correction on. This photos was taken…

Auckland

Space Bar – 27/07/2008 Originally uploaded by hoppers99 Auckland rocks! Thursday afternoon off work, getting ready for road trip and potentially epic weekend in Auckland. Friday morning last minute packing then off to pick up my mate, then hit the road for 6+ hours in the car. Made it to where we were staying around…