Luke Hesketh Photography

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I started writing this a couple of weeks back but have been too busy to finish it! So finally, a few photos from New Zealand.

I didn’t take many photos in Christchurch (except for the wedding). This is the view we had from our room. The park you can see is called Victoria Square.

The day after the wedding we drove 6 or so hours to get to a place called Franz Joseph. To get there though, we had to go through Authors pass. These were actually some of the first sheep that we saw!

When we got to the top the snow was ridiculous & traffic was held up for a long way.

This guy wasn’t going to get too far!

One part of the road, which must be particularly susceptible to land slides, or something, had this roof over it.

We did eventually make it to Franz Joseph though. This is the main street.

You can’t see it in this picture but further up the river is the Franz Joseph glacier.

Sunset at Franz Joseph

Next day we went for a walk to the glacier. Unfortunately we weren’t allowed up very close because we were not with a guide.

After that we had to drive for another 5+ hours to get to Queenstown.

This is Queenstown, viewed from the Gondola

Paraglide. Would be awesome fun I reckon, thought I’d save that for next time though.

We did a wine tour through the Central Otaga region. This is the first winery we went to ‘Peregrine’, they make some great wines! I thought it would be a bus load of wine snobs but it wasn’t and was heaps of fun.

On the way back from the tour we stopped into a winery that was near the AJ Hackett Bungy place. Unfortunately they were packing everything up when we got there. It is 43 Metres above some beautifully clear water.

After Queenstown we stayed at Wanaka. This was my favourite place that we went to.

This is 1/2 sec @ f22. Not bad for hand held I thought!

We did some skiing out of Wanaka at a place called Cardrona. I am really dissappointed that the only day I took the camera up with me we couldn’t see anything. This was the last day we had skiing, and we didnt get to do much.

Well, thats all I am going to put up. Hope it wasn’t too boring! We had a great time, and would <!– /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:”"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –> definately go back again!

I had the privilege of being the photographer for Joel & Liz Brading, who were married on the 16th of August 2008. The wedding was in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is such a beautiful country, I love it here! Thanks guys for a great day, and congratulations! More to come soon…

Not much time for words, but here are a couple of pictures to prove that we made it here.

A couple of obligatory tourist photos…Danielle at the Opera House

Sydney Harbour Bridge

The weather was fantastic yesterday. We did heaps of walking but we decided we better make the most of the sun and have a cold beer (well I did anyway)…espesically when we got handed complimentary drink cards and stubby coolers for ‘The Cargo Bar’.

Brenton and Danielle enjoying a drink in the sun (and under a gas heater).

Danielle and her mum could spend a lot of time (& money) in this shop! Right after I took this photo the lady with a look of shock on her face told me I wasn’t allowed to take photos in the shop.

Thought it was about time I jump on the blog bandwagon.

I’ve been thinking about making one for a while but this is kinda a last minute thing so that I can share some photos while I am away in NZ. (Thats the plan anyway, assuming I have time!)

Just to make this post a bit more interesting here is a picture I took during a trip to Cradle Mountain recently.

Taken on the trail to Marions Lookout. It started raining on the way back out and my gear got pretty wet! I spent nearly an hour drying and cleaning everything when I got home!

Came across this today,

LINK

Vincent Laforet (photographer for News Week) writes about his preparation for shooting the Olympic games. Definitely worth a read and if your a photographer there is lots of gear to drool over!