It’s that time of year again! The National Masters Hockey Tournament is being held in Nelson this year, and I’ll be playing in the 40-45 year old age group. As a consequence, I’ll be likely out of contact until Monday 8th of March.

All work has been done to the last minute, all enquiries handled. Now it’s time for hockey! If I have internet access I’ll try and remain in contact.

Neal

Photo Enhancements

I created this canvas panorama print of the Whananaki Estuary and surrounds for some locals whom have a love for the area. Situated 40 minutes drive North East of Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand, Whananaki is a great place to stay for holidays, fishing, sailing, swimming and general relaxing lifestyle. This photo was taken just after new years 2010 and shows the area suffering from the onset of drought conditions.

I shot this panorama overlooking Whananaki with my 70-200mm zoom lense. Comprising 20 photos stitched together, a huge amount of detail is visible in the photo. This originally equated to a 100 megapixel equivalent image. The photo was put onto a 1600mm wide x 260mm mounted canvas. The photo itself measures 1500mm x 145mm. The photo inset shows the sort of detail present in the image.

This canvas print is available for sale to anyone with a passion for Whananaki for scenic panorama prints.

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Steve Moase from Moaseart had previously done some canvas art prints made by me. With ongoing success of sales, Steve decided to have this image put onto canvas. It’s an artistic scene of Whale Bay, Northland New Zealand. Measuring 1000mm x 380mm it’s been a very popular seller for Steve.
Steve’s website can be found at:
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I’m quite a fan of astronomy images, and came across this wonderful Hubble Telescope picture of the Stellar spire in the Eagle Nebula. Measuring 9.5 light years high, the nebula is likely to be the birth place of young stars.

Obtaining a high resolution image courtesy of NASA, ESI and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) I printed out this photo onto canvas measuring 970mm x 475mm. This canvas print is for sale, with access to more Hubble photos. I can be contacted through my main website:
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All Hubble still and motion pictures are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported meaning they can be redistributed. More copyright information can be found
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Just updated is the logo header image for my website and blog. I wanted a simple logo covering the type of work I did - ie printing images onto canvas and photo paper, as well as restoring and altering photos. The camera outline is my own camera, and  printer  my own  after doing a large print. The image to the right is a stylized image of a railway line I took a few years ago, representing the art work I print for customers and myself.

It may not be the flashest, but I made it myself and am happy with the final result.

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It’s not what you think! Not a domestic dispute ending with the bride being removed. Laurel called in about having a photo of her husband in his army uniform on his own. He had passed away 17 years ago, and Laurel was getting his army medals mounted with a picture of him going with the medals.

Laurel wanted a simple photo where her husband was standing with a plain background behind him. I removed the bridal image, filled in the missing parts of the image and added in a simple graduating background. Laurel was extremely happy with the final result.

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I’m running a holiday snap-shot printing special for January - 15% off Panorama and A3 sized and higher canvas mounted prints - with free freight nation-wide in New Zealand.

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Business has started for the new year. It was great to have a break after the busy lead up to Christmas, with more canvas prints done than the previous year. It was good to see a good mixture of artists, photographers, and regular shooters using my services - and all the images done looked great!

Here’s an image I took while visiting Whananaki, Northland, after the new year. It was a 20 photo image taken with my Canon 20D and 70-200mm 2.8 Zoom Lense. Why use a telephoto for a wide panorama? It gave me a chance to take far more detail than a wide angle lense allowing to make for big sized prints. This produced an 86 Megapixel equivalent photo after cropping, the bottom image is a zoomed in portion of part of the image - taken about 700-800 metres away.

Merry Christmas every one and a happy new year. It’s been a hectic 2 weeks of non stop photo work - primarily canvas printing for my regular photographers & artists and a whole lot of new customers. It’s good to sit back and relax for a while, but it’s good to reflect on the work completed. I’m officially on holiday until the 5th to 12th but will be checking from time to time to take orders and will process canvas prints if required.

The photo above is a canvas print I made for my niece. It’s a photo she took while camping on Great Barrier Island on an Intermediate School trip back in November. This was where she was camping, right on the beach front! She was really chuffed to receive the gift-  an A3 sized canvas.

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It’s been a busy couple of weeks. The photo work has been flowing out  the door with barely time to update the blog.

It’s been especially busy with canvas prints - a few late nights getting the large work flow completed, before the next batch has to be done. Not many individual photos to show, what with privacy to keep in mind, but here’s a pic of nine prints ready to be picked up for a local gallery to go on display. Still time for orders to be completed if made before the weekend! Local orders I can still accept up to and including Tuesday.

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