So as you can guess I'm sitting at the computer with photoshop open and having the usual crisis of confidence. Zack Arias described it beautifully in a clip I am going to embed in the next post, but in the meantime I'll just say (again) how hard it is to look hard and objectively at your own...

{Aramoana Beach} Beaches are great, healthy, wholesome. Of course we live right above one pretty much year round. We like them. So it's good to introduce the children to a great old family tradition when over in NZ: cold windy beaches. Besides it saves a lot of $ to get out of those huge wondero...

  So I made a mistake on the last trip to NZ, but in my defence, it was an innocent one... Along with more than a few of my online photog friends I was doing an online course. Of course it would be the same time we decided to go to NZ to look at boarding schools. My D200 and the SB800 (flash) a...

  ...a handsome Fijian from the backblocks met a very attractive French Canadian girl. They fell in love, had a baby, got married in Fiji and returned to Montreal to live happily ever after... and watch and wait for their wedding pictures! Well they are all completed and I will burn to disc and pos...

...have your 12th birthday at the Hard Rock Café, Port Denarau, Fiji? The above photo is a clue! I'm not big on birthdays and (while I'll go out of my way not to have a clash with them) I don't really go for the huge "lets invite everyone and do lots of expensive things" type ...

...and where we have told the kids they will go next year!   Nacula School (say Nah- thu- lah) is situated on the edge of the village and is actually a boarding school for a large part of the district. Children come in on Sunday afternoon from surrounding islands and commute home on Friday aft...

  Nearly lost that! Ok I'm really struggling right now, typepad has a new post body template. It looks amazing, and I love having the option to write in html again. But phew! I am a little confused. Still it is time to post again and get the rest of the Oarsman photos up, and this afternoo...

Is it really that long since the last post? Shame! I guess we have been busy... Firstly GB has been flat out with his job, and it looks like construction will start soon on a big gorgeous new pool out here on the island! yay! But the yay only comes from the aesthetic part of me which objects to the ...

{...coming home the other night. I used a frame overlay from FlickR's ttv pool -it has a bit of a storm light look to it doesn't it? But it wasn't, indeed we've had some pretty solid sunshine...} I felt bad recently when I read this in the NZ Herald: Late-winter storms sock parts of US and Canada A ...

Last night I had a raucous phone call from some blokes in a bar in Sydney (? well somewhere in Australia, I didn't ask for details). When was I updating my blog? Well it was too hard to explain on a patchy cell phone connection (quite fun actually, people often assume you've hung up on them when the...