Like Ann I think you did a great job here given your equipment. The composition is very strong through out the gallery. My favorite is Birdlings Flat and 0432. Cheers, Christine
On Nov 29, 2011, at 11:43 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow thats very impressive for cell phone snaps... > I love the looking downstream shot and the gatekeeper's cottage with the > photog framed in one "window" - excellent geometry... wish the sky were a > deeper blue. You did admirably given "bright and sunny". > > Rail trails make nice trails - we even have one in Manhattan, but it's not so > good. > > ann > > On 11/28/2011 04:52, David Mann wrote: >> Little River is the name of a small town on Banks Peninsula, about halfway >> between Christchurch and Akaroa. >> >> There used to be a railway that ran from there to Christchurch city, but its >> use was discontinued in 1962. Starting just a few years ago, the old >> railway is being converted into a trail which can be walked or biked. This >> has been done in a few other parts of the country as well the most famous >> being the Central Otago Rail Trail which is about 150km long. >> >> We went over to Little River for the weekend and while Janet was busy with a >> small conference on Saturday afternoon, I got on my bike and did the rail >> trail as far as Motukarara. The trail does go further than this but it >> departs from the original railway line at that point, and that's as far as >> I'd planned to go. It will eventually reach the outer Christchurch suburb >> of Hornby, where the railway used to end. >> >> http://www.multi.net.nz/rail-trail/ >> >> These are all cellphone pics which I struggled to take. It was bright and >> sunny and I could barely see anything on the screen of the phone so >> composition was largely done by guesswork. I haven't touched them in >> Photoshop. >> >> It was an enjoyable ride despite the conditions. I'd been intending to do >> this trail for a long time but never got around to it. It's an easy track >> with no hills and it seems to be well looked after and there's lots of >> birdlife at this time of year. The only downside is that it's very exposed >> to the weather. I rode it on a hot day and the wind came up while I was out >> there so I had a tough head wind all the way back. Ran out of drink about >> 10 minutes from the finish so I'm glad I carried as much as I did. >> >> Cheers, >> Dave > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
