Auckland City Photo Day

[joeseph]

Well folks, yesterday was Auckland City Photo Day. Did the locals all get out & into it?
Yep! lotsa people out & about armed with a bewildering array of gear. Lighting for the day went from foggy to downright dull, so I haven't much to show for the daylight hours worth posting. This pic happened after a patient wait at Mt Victoria summit.

http://joebloggs.servebeer.com/odd_files/img_0166-800.jpg

Anyone else get anything interesting? feel free to post 'em here...

oh and the new 20D arrived this week - :-) complete with sensor dust :-(

[Petergull]

That's a great shot - I've been to the top of that tower!

[skyphix]

I can hear the store clerks now "I can't print this! It looks too professional!!"
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/personaltech/20050530-9999-mz1b30snap.html

Beautiful shot :)

[Wazza]

Nice shot joeseph.
:)

I entered last year, but didn't bother this year. The weather sucked, and the judging seemed a bit biased towards children. 3 of the top 6 were from the same group of friends, aged about 9 years old, who just had urban people shots.

This was my shot entered last year:
http://wazz*****scity.com/photos/aucklanddesktop.jpg

It was in top 30 of 420 entries, and was displayed at many places, including library, art gallery, civic centre etc. A week before the competition I had an email from the organiser, asking for a raw image of this file, as they had to do some advertising work for it, apparently they were now choosing my image as one of the ones to be displayed. I gave it to them, but don't know what they did.
On Saturday I was at the airport... Boring.

[joeseph]

Thanks guys, yeah the weather was really odd - very dull & boring.

Petergull: great to see you've been here!
Skyphix: the day they stop printing 'em is the day I change printers.. currently using frogprints
Wazza: We all know you're shots are frightening off other competition entrants! I know what you mean about them though, I keep getting hassled by family & friends to enter them but really can't be bothered - I take photo's mainly for my enjoyment & if others like them too thats a bonus.

[SWPhotoImaging]

I think you salvaged a dull day with a superior night shot!

Well done.

[felix21685]

wow very cool i like the clouds..the water is neat too..cool night shot for sure

[Moppie]

Theres an auckland city photo day?
I can honestly say that after living my whole life here I have never heard of it :o
Im either to old, to young, or don't read the Herald.


Very nice shot joeseph Mt Vic is a great spot to get some awsome shots of the city from.
Looks like the wind played a little havoc with your tripod though. I have it blow mine over completely, makes getting a sharp image difficult.

And have you seen this: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=76991

[Wazza]

Yes.

I need to choose a couple of Auckland prints this weekend for:

http://www.aucklandnz.com/Photo_Competition/Default.aspx

Maybe some other locals should try it. It has real prizes, and the winners, truely have great photos. I read last years winner won a couple of the individual ones with the Landscape shot (Bethells reflection), and Urban I think it was, and won the overall best image. Total prizes he won was over $3000. :eek: Those are probably the two areas I would enter, as I don't have any people shots to share.

[joeseph]

[Theres an auckland city photo day?]

yes indeed. I spent an hour or so in the CBD and spotted quite a few people out & about - with 20/20 hindsight I could have done a series about "people-taking-photos"

funny thing photo competitions, the ones I've seen lately have for prizes: you guessed it, digital cameras!