New Zealand - Nov 2011

New Zealand trip started from Auckland, then to Queenstown. We stopped at Te Anau first, visited Doubtful Sound, Milford Sound, then headed to Invercargil, Dunedin and then Queenstown!

Most of the places we went was raining. Locals everywhere almost say the same thing: "Yesterday was bright and sunny!"

Took 1059 shots. Filtered down to 79 pictures for first pass. And posted 17 here. Will definitely work on having a PDF/PPT version to document the travel from Day 1 to last day!

Willy the Wanderer

Meet Willy.

"Hello!"



He was adopted just 2 days ago from a nearby shop which seemed to have eluded me for 1 year, for just $7.90. He even has a functional magnifying glass!

"Watcha looking at!"



Willy is an addition to bring to light the 3D Models that we have been building for the past weeks/months. Willy the Wanderer.. for obvious reasons.

At first, he wasn't sure whether he was dreaming, or really visiting places. He started off at Tower Bridge, London.

Scrutinizing closer, it seems real enough. And the journey commences!

Willy was at Burj Al Arab. Right where Agassi played tennis a few years back. But somehow, he sees the Petronas Twin Tower not too far ahead!


It's nice to hang off the Petronas Twin Tower bridge once in a while it seems...


Moving on, there was Paris...

Then there was Pisa....

"Whoa"... leaning as much as Willy can go...

Moscow...

Trying to blend in to the Kremlin.. playing Spot Willy instead of Find Wally...

China....

"Yippee!!" on top of the Great Wall.. or part of it...

Taj Mahal...

After a long trip, he rested.

But it was too hot, so Willy got into the shade!

Moving on... Willy came to the Himeji-Jo!

Try to Spot Willy...

Looking out of the Himeji-Jo... Willy is getting tired..

As I try to take a bird's eye view...

Willy sits back and rest...

Completing his tour... Willy went Down Under

Where else to go then the Opera House!

Exploring the Opera House...

It's time to take a break. Willy sits back, stretch out, gear down. It's time to conclude this journey segment of Willy the Wanderer.

La Trappe

Went to Little Part 1 Cafe at Upper Thomson for Friday dinner.
Second time there, and second time having the La Trappe!

This time round, I took the bottle home (with consensus of the Cafe of course) for a photo shoot.

Nice strong beer. + the bottle looks good. Deserving of the effort to setup and shoot!

p.s. I realized my watermark for the product shoots were far too much at the bottom corner (like the Lomo Recesky), so for this round, I shifted it to overlap with the product.

Lomo Recesky

My New Toy!
The newest addition to my toy collection - Lomo Recesky..

A DIY TLR for the price of $33SGD. This price is pretty flexible depending on where or who you get it from. I'm not sure whether I will be passing any roll of film through this, but it is definitely a cheap and good deco to be used at Halia.

Casio G-Shock

Got a new toy for Friday.
Wanted a sporty watch, probably hoping that I will get out and do more sports!
Casio G-301BR-1ADR 2737
Quite different from my previous watch shoots. (Check out here: Product)