Chocolate Invaders

Mar 7

Posted by Luke in Ramblings, Shenanigans | 4 Comments

I was at Peter Alexander the other day and mistakenly thought that it was a pyjama store. Well, they do sell pyjamas, but they also have a range of other odd things that seem like they’d be more at home in some sort of novelty store. A couple of items caught my eye – a chocolate mouse (it looks like a block of chocolate with a bite taken out) and a Space Invaders ice cube tray. I bought them both, and tonight I put the ice cube tray to use in a different way. Space Invaders chocolates!

All your chocolate are belong to us!

Mouldy chocolate

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To HDR or not… that is the question

Mar 4

Posted by Luke in Photos | 5 Comments

Recently I’ve been playing around with HDR (or tonemapped, if you prefer) photos. They seem to be somewhat of a love/hate affair, with many people voicing strong opinions against them. The term “HDR” refers to high dynamic range; more specifically in digital photography, it usually refers to the process of bracketing and combining multiple exposures of the same image. By combining underexposed and overexposed images, you end up with a final product that shows all the detail in both shadow and highlight areas.

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Update…

Feb 21

Posted by Luke in New Zealand, Photos | No Comments

3,000kms travelled, 3,000 photos taken. And now it’s time to go through them all. I’m getting there, but it will take a few days. After I’ve gone through all the photos I’ll write a couple of blog posts about New Zealand. I was hoping to update every couple of days during the trip, but it was too much work to go through all the photos each day!

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NZ Trip Day 5-7

Feb 13

Posted by Luke in New Zealand, Photos | No Comments

We left Wanaka and headed to Queenstown, where we spent 3 days. The journey goes by way of the Crown Range summit, pictured below. It’s the highest sealed road in New Zealand, at 1076 metres above sea level; as you can see from the photo, it’s so high that it’s obscured by cloud! Visibility was pretty average when driving through the cloud, and I really wish we had a manual rental car for all these mountain roads.

Cloudy road

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NZ Trip Day 3-4

Feb 9

Posted by Luke in New Zealand, Photos | 3 Comments

We started day three in Fox Glacier, waking up at 5am to get to Lake Matheson before sunrise. Without a torch, and with fog all around, it was a bit hard to see where the walking track was. After a while the fog started to lift and we started the 30 minute hike to the other side of the lake.

Just before sunrise at the Lake Matheson cafe

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