The lovely Christine Cosgrove was trying out a new cosplay as Elvira, great fun 🙂
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Fire and Ice
This weekend we had the 12th annual Kaiapoi Arts Expo, and this year like last Blackwells put on ice sculpting, a night market. The ice sculpture is amazing to watch as chainsaws and chisels are sued to turn out amazing ice art. The market was busy and fun with fire poi exponents playing with fire which looked pretty spectacular in the dark.
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The Dark Side
A recent visitor…Darth Vader, from Darkside Entertainers.
Wonder Woman
I had a bit of fun with a local cosplayer who does a fantastic Wonder Woman. We took some normal images and a few for fun.
Chess Master
I am currently working on a series of images with a variety of cosplayers, this is the amazing Natasha and family.Â
Children’s Day
Sunday was Children’s Day here in New Zealand, all sorts of events and activities were organised and this year we had the first Kaiapoi Children’s Day event. Lots of fun on a stunningly warm afternoon. The Kaiapoi Photographic Club were asked to take a few photographs…
Christchurch Holi Festival 2017
Yesterday I went to the Christchurch Holi Festival, Nikon New Zealand organised a guided tour, along with the user of some lenses and cameras. The event itself was great fun, very enjoyable with a very happy atmosphere. It was also very messy, it involved a lot of dry paint being thrown around and everyone was very colourful by the end. After some discussion I chose to stick with my 50mm prime lens, fewer moving parts for dust and paint to get into and the Nikon team wrapped my camera and my hand in plastic to protect it. It was effective but did make it hard to adjust a lot of settings, I shot pretty wide open for most of the event which worked well as long as I was very aware of my focus.
All in all a great event, well worth doing, and doing again, whether to photograph or just take part.
One other change for today, I have been playing with Capture One Pro for processing my images rather than Lightroom, so far I like the results but I still have a lot to learn.
