When I visited New Zealand the first time, back in 2010, I started this blog. The hope was that it could be a way for people back home, friends and family wherever, to come along with me and enjoy the adventure. Little did I know how many people would participate and follow. Little did I realize how much fun it would be to take the photos, write the stories and share them.
In past years, before the internet, and before digital photography, I always carried a camera, and wrote a journal of each day's activities in the evening while it was fresh in my mind. As soon as the pictures were developed, I carefully documented what each one was about, so that my daughter and I could enjoy them again years later. And it has been wonderful to look at those photos and stories again, bringing back memories that time had faded. But the reach of that was limited. We are so blessed to be able to now record so much of our memories so quickly and easily with the use of digital photography and blogging!
Since then, I have also worked hard, and continue to work hard, to step up my game and learn how to better capture the scenes that I visit. As an apprentice in The Arcanum - a "Magical Academy of Artistic Mastery" - I am learning so much about light, colour, art, and the craft of photography from the master that I'm working with, +Laurie Rubin and learning almost as much from other masters and the other apprentices. My goal is to become completely comfortable and confident about shooting my next adventure.
And my next adventure will be......ta da da da.... New Zealand! Back where it all started. And this is a little story in itself.
My friend Linda was one of those original tagalongs - virturally - on my first sojourn over to the other side of the globe. It has been a lifelong dream of hers to visit NZ, and when I returned, she said - 5 years, give me 5 years and then I'll go. Would you come along? Of course I would. So a couple of months ago, she reminded me that the 5 years was up, and we needed to go to NZ. Yes, that's right. Need, not Want. Kiwi country calls loud and clear for those who listen, and when you answer, it's like a rope connecting you, and it just keeps pulling you in.
So, planning has commenced. This blog will now be part of our way to track those plans, and then the trip, and hopefully pull some more people in and along. No tickets yet, but dates are tentatively set, and we are sooooo excited!
Right now it looks like 2 weeks (not nearly enough), and hitting:
Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, Stewart Island, Te Anau, Fjordlands, Queenstown, Twizel, and Middle Earth.
Can't wait to see the sky set ablaze over The Remarkables
Thank goodness for a little extra income from +Rodan + Fields !!!
In past years, before the internet, and before digital photography, I always carried a camera, and wrote a journal of each day's activities in the evening while it was fresh in my mind. As soon as the pictures were developed, I carefully documented what each one was about, so that my daughter and I could enjoy them again years later. And it has been wonderful to look at those photos and stories again, bringing back memories that time had faded. But the reach of that was limited. We are so blessed to be able to now record so much of our memories so quickly and easily with the use of digital photography and blogging!
Since then, I have also worked hard, and continue to work hard, to step up my game and learn how to better capture the scenes that I visit. As an apprentice in The Arcanum - a "Magical Academy of Artistic Mastery" - I am learning so much about light, colour, art, and the craft of photography from the master that I'm working with, +Laurie Rubin and learning almost as much from other masters and the other apprentices. My goal is to become completely comfortable and confident about shooting my next adventure.
And my next adventure will be......ta da da da.... New Zealand! Back where it all started. And this is a little story in itself.
My friend Linda was one of those original tagalongs - virturally - on my first sojourn over to the other side of the globe. It has been a lifelong dream of hers to visit NZ, and when I returned, she said - 5 years, give me 5 years and then I'll go. Would you come along? Of course I would. So a couple of months ago, she reminded me that the 5 years was up, and we needed to go to NZ. Yes, that's right. Need, not Want. Kiwi country calls loud and clear for those who listen, and when you answer, it's like a rope connecting you, and it just keeps pulling you in.
So, planning has commenced. This blog will now be part of our way to track those plans, and then the trip, and hopefully pull some more people in and along. No tickets yet, but dates are tentatively set, and we are sooooo excited!
Right now it looks like 2 weeks (not nearly enough), and hitting:
Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, Stewart Island, Te Anau, Fjordlands, Queenstown, Twizel, and Middle Earth.
Can't wait to see the sky set ablaze over The Remarkables
Thank goodness for a little extra income from +Rodan + Fields !!!
