Here are a few images from a session I had with Kristi the owner of Bend Yoga in Dunedin. The location was Lavender Row, a local lavender farm. Kristi needed some marketing images for an upcoming class planned during their Festival of Lavender. All of the photos below were taken with my Fujifilm GFX 50sii and the GF 110mm F2. I played with using the purple lavender flowers as a colour filter.
Visiting the Dunedin Chinese Garden
Visit the Dunedin Chinese Garden with photographer Trev Hill.
Read MoreHay Bales on Henley-Berwick Rd
New Zealand is in summer now and last night I visited the Henley Cheese factory. The conditions weren’t great and the image, okay, but nothing special. However, on the way there, I did enjoy a welcome distraction. I love hay bales, straw ones, not the kind shrink-wrapped in plastic, I hate those with a passion.
However, yesterday evening, as the sun was going down, I couldn’t help but turn my camera to the hay bales wrapped in ghastly green plastic on Henley Berwick road. The way the light was catching on the plastic, well, it was lovely, almost mesmerising.
A tractor in the field, resting after a productive days work. GFX50sii, 35-70mm @70mm, 65:24 crop.
I couldn’t find an amazing composition, but it didn’t matter, I was just enjoying the display of hay bales dotted over multiple paddocks. Definitely worth a snap or 2.
Henley-Berwick Road. Fujifilm GFX50sii 35-70mm @70mm
When I finally arrived at the Henley Cheese Factory, I’d already had my reward, not in pictures, because I couldn’t do the scene justice, but just by being there to see lovely fields of green plastic hay bales. Not something I thought I’d ever acknowledge. However, that’s the beauty of landscape photography, you never know what is going to look great under the gaze of an evening sun. Here below is a cheese factory pic from last night.
Henley Cheese Factory, GFX50sii, 110mm f/2 @F8
I’m not sure if I’m getting a bit soft in my old age or perhaps just a little more grateful for the small things, but I did enjoy that hay bale surprise, and I look forward to the next one.
