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July 13, 2020
The spark that gets me out of bed
For a month now, I have been trialing a new long term time-lapse camera. The TikeePRO2+ was designed by Enlaps, a Kickstarter project coming out of France a few years ago. It has taken off and so I’m pleased to be an ambassador for their camera. It’s completely self sufficient […]
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March 8, 2020
Lumix and Sigma: a time-lapse collaboration
I’ve always been impressed with Lumix as a camera brand, ever since my dad purchased a compact camera for his overseas travel. Not only that, I heard great stories of their famous cameras for video, like the GH5. Lumix have also been a big sponsor in the prestigious New Zealand […]
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November 22, 2019
Snippets from Stephen
I’ve recently come back after an extended Labour weekend trip gathering new content. I teamed up with with friend and fellow time-lapse photographer, Bevan Percival from Primal Earth Images. It was the first time we’ve teamed up in the South Island to get to some areas we both wanted to […]
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August 25, 2019
A marriage of music and visuals
Over the past few months, I’ve been pre-occupied finalising my latest time-lapse titled Terrestrial South New Zealand. These are must see awe-inspiring scenes from New Zealand’s less frequented areas and a “marriage of beautiful scenery with fitting music” attributed to award-winning New Zealand composer, Rhian Sheehan. ‘Terrestrial South: New Zealand’ depicts […]
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April 27, 2019
Fujifilm GFX 50R time-lapse trial
In the later part of 2018, I noted that Fujifilm released its medium format GFX 50R onto the market. Wanting to upgrade my next camera to something lighter with higher specs, the GFX 50R seemed to have all the hallmarks and got my attention. I also noticed that Fujifilm were […]
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March 12, 2019
Sharing some time-lapse tutorials
If you’re a kinesthetic learner like me, you’ll skip the reading and go straight to YouTube to learn anything you need to know. YouTube really is the place learn almost anything. I thought about doing my own tutorial on how to make a time-lapse, but that’s too involved and others […]
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December 31, 2018
2018 was an extraordinary year
I’m not one to boast a lot about my achievements, but 2018 was an extraordinary year for me. Not only did I do well in few competitions, I was also invited by the movie industry to do produce some time-lapse sequences. An email came to my inbox where the sender […]
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October 21, 2018
Competitions and calendars
“Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are”. Alan Alda, best known as combat doctor Hawkeye Pierce in the 1970’s American comedy-drama M*A*S*H Recognition and building a following is hard work. But to get it means try, […]
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September 3, 2018
Who’s who in time-lapse photography
For a while now, I have wanted to do a blog about the work of other time-lapse photographers across the globe. My article started out as my pick of the top 10 but my list quickly outgrew itself and so that notion dropped away. Time-lapse photography has come along in […]
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