Oropi session with Dan Heads

Spent most of Monday up at Oropi. I just got a new Dakine Camera bag that will allow me to ride into the forest with my camera gear all well protected and it worked a treat. Anyway, after a bit of faffing round a playing on the jumps myself, I started taking some pics of good friend and local pinner Dan Heads. He pulls a good moto whip as you can see! And also was flying round the bottom section of the switchbacks (making it very hard to get a good shot of him incidentally...) Also thanks to Ash for holding the flash on many occasion.... (really do need to get a flash stand). Anyway, another fun day out on the bike and a few good pics to boot. Check em out below. Cheers

Lisa & Rutu's Wedding

My Sisters wedding was the other weekend, I got trigger happy with my camera, still learning more and more every time I take it out of it's case which is great! This was huge learning curve, so thanks heaps Lisa and and Rutu for letting me loiter round and put up with me saying 'just one more' on what was a very cold New Plymouth day. Anyway, check em out below.

48hrs Film - Fresh Start

Mt Maunganui War Memorial

Had some time spare over the weekend so went snapping, here's one of my fav's

Banksy?

Watch Marin bikes being made

Discovery Channel

easter vid

ok, so I am pretty much an internet genius! I have now figured out how to embed videos from youtube etc into my blog.........for you tech internet geeks out there you could probably do this in your sleep, but I'm quite chuffed with myself - anyway, its below, enjoy! - Thanks to Evermore for the music... (I hope they don't mind)

easter vid

ouchy!

from the Darwin awards....

more pics

The latest photo experiments... (got a little wet on the top right photo!)

I want to know how this guy came up with this? Did he need to nail something in his house and couldn't find a ladder? Brilliant!

Off to a wedding this weekend at which I am best man, so right now I should be writing my best man speech, instead I am wasting time on the net, finding things like these. Ha! Sounds like a happy mother in law....

sign

I want a sign like this on the carparks outside Bike Barn...

video stuff

So, yet another thing I'm figuring out in this whole blog thing, loading videos. If this works, click on the pic above and you should see are rather silly guy doing a rather silly thing on a bike...

bye for now.... more videos to come... (hopefully)

Easter Camp

So Easter has come and gone again, Jul and I spent it at our friend Emma's farm way out the back of Huntly way. There was a camp on and somehow (I'm still not sure how) Jul and I ended up being the speakers.... poor campers.... Anyway, turned out to be a great weekend, despite my now permanantly bruised butt. Did heaps of horseriding which was great fun, and even learnt to jump... a bit... should I say, if I could get my horse to the jump going fast enough, he would make his way over it and I would pretty much hold on. Anyway, great weekend, check out some pics below.

I love waking up to views like this....

Emma our lovely host

Me about to take my horse for a swim

a few photos...

So for those of you whom I see more often, you might know that I just got a cool new camera, (a Nikon D80 if you care), it's been great fun, and the long term goal is that I could get to a stage where I could be earning some money from it. Anyway, I'll attach some of my more recent pics that I like and you can leave a comment or 2 if you like. As I'm kinda into bikes most of the following pics are of riders... (who are much better riders than me.... as they say, if you can't do.... teach.... if you can't do that... take photos...or that's what I say at least.)

The First Blog

Hi there, just typing something to see how this thing works...

cheerio

Lance