Australia and New Zealand photographs
Watching Australia finally made me do something I should have done a long time ago: start converting my 2003 pictures of my month in Australia and New Zealand into digital form (back then I still used film). It's going to take a while as I have tons and tons of pictures, but I am rather pleased with the result so far (I didn't use negatives but photos to be scanned instead because I wanted to see how it went).
So here is the first batch, 50+ photos of Australia and New Zealand, from August 2003. And yes, the colors are real.
View of the Olgas from a helicopter (The reason there might be odd columns of light in this photo and some of the other ones is because of scanning photos v. negatives. I will try to convert from negatives next.)
Climbing the monolith that is Ayers Rock:
It looks like the surface of the moon.
From the air. At one time, it was the bottom of the sea:
As I said, moonscape:
Yes, these colors are real. At sunrise.
And before, almost sunrise.
The Olgas:
I forgot to mention how large the sky seemed there. Like you were at the edge of the world.
Also, how oddly new, as if you went back in time millions of years.
The colors really are incredible:
On a camel farm, the first (and only) time I rode a camel. It was surreal and wonderful.
View from the camel :)
Views of Sydney from the water:
Street-scene:
Canberra:
And then I went to New Zealand and fell even more in love.
We took the TransAlpine train from Christchurch to Greymouth and it was one of the most wonderful experiences of my life.
This is a braided river:
Auckland as seen from the ferry.
One of the suburbs of Auckland. Yes, the cone shape is because of a volcano:
On the bus in the South Island:
So here is the first batch, 50+ photos of Australia and New Zealand, from August 2003. And yes, the colors are real.
View of the Olgas from a helicopter (The reason there might be odd columns of light in this photo and some of the other ones is because of scanning photos v. negatives. I will try to convert from negatives next.)
Climbing the monolith that is Ayers Rock:
It looks like the surface of the moon.
From the air. At one time, it was the bottom of the sea:
As I said, moonscape:
Yes, these colors are real. At sunrise.
And before, almost sunrise.
The Olgas:
I forgot to mention how large the sky seemed there. Like you were at the edge of the world.
Also, how oddly new, as if you went back in time millions of years.
The colors really are incredible:
On a camel farm, the first (and only) time I rode a camel. It was surreal and wonderful.
View from the camel :)
Views of Sydney from the water:
Street-scene:
Canberra:
And then I went to New Zealand and fell even more in love.
We took the TransAlpine train from Christchurch to Greymouth and it was one of the most wonderful experiences of my life.
This is a braided river:
Auckland as seen from the ferry.
One of the suburbs of Auckland. Yes, the cone shape is because of a volcano:
On the bus in the South Island: