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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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 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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Jill required this photo to be fixed and have all the marks removed. It was a picture of her father taken back in the 50s. Luckily his facial features were fine but his suit and tie were the worse for wear. Instead of trying to spend a lot of time trying to repair the suit I looked thru my archives and found a very tidy  suit and tie. It blended perfectly, the restored photo looking excellent. When Jill saw the photo and the changes I made she said that was the sort of suit and tie her father would definitely like to wear!

Dorothy called in to see me about having this old pioneer photo restored to its former glory. Taken in 1906 it celebrated 50 years of settlement in New Zealand. The title says “May Grace & Blessing Dear Crown this Day our Jubilee Year 1856 - 1906″ It was a large 16 x 20 inch photo, which I reproduced and printed to that size as well as making small 8 x 10 prints.

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