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Just spent one week in South Island (New Zealand) with family. We spent most of the time in Christchurch and Queenstown but also went to some nearby town and places like Arrowtown, Lake Wanaka..etc

This is the first time we took our 1 year old daughter to a long trip and it has been a long long time since the whole family travelled together (actually almost exactly 10 years ago) so it was a very special trip to me.


Of course i brought my camera gears with me and i'll post up some photos here when i got time to go thru them..

here is a photo of Lake Wakatipu near Queenstown


#0 Lake Wakatipu
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Part 1 Auckland -> Christchurch

#1 5am in the morning at the airport carpark
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#2 Jetstar
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#3 Arrived Christchurch, welcome by the beautiful weather
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#4 My mum playing with my daughter at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens
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#5 A Japanese Bell at Christchruch Botanic Gardens
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#6 Christchruch Botanic Gardens
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#7 Christchruch Botanic Gardens
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#8 Christchruch Botanic Gardens
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#9 The big Chess Game at Cathedral Square
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#10 Christchruch City Rugby Worldcup Banner
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#11 A Nikon Shooter at the Arts Center Weekend Market
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#12 Outside the Arts Center
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#13 Young Violinists playing on the street
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#14 Little bird in the pond
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#15 Little bird in the pond
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#16 Street Magic Show
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#17 Christchurch Tram Conductor
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#18 Christchurch Tram Conductor
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#19 Christchurch City Center
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#20 Cathedral Square
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#21 Chrischurch City Snapshot
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#22 Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament - this church is only 1 min away from our motel
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#23 Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
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#24 Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
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#25 Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
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#26 Christchurch Tram Conductor
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#27 Christchurch City Snapshot
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#28 Christchurch City Snapshot
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#29 Christchurch Tram
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#30 Christchurch Tram
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#31 Teddy Bear
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#32 Christchurch, The Garden City
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#33 The super long New Brighton Pier
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#34 Lovely Weather, just very windy
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#35 Surfer waiting for the big waves
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#36 Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
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#37 Pegasus Bay Winery - One of the best winery in New Zealand, they have a very nice restaurant there too
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#38 Pegasus Bay Winery
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#39 Pegasus Bay Winery
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#40 Pegasus Bay Winery
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#41 Pegasus Bay Winery
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#42 Peagasus Bay Winery
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#43 Peagasus Bay Winery
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#44 Peagasus Bay Winery
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#45 Peagasus Bay Winery
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#46 Orana Wildlife Park - Only took a few photos there as my daughter fall asleep soon after we arrived so i have to carry her for most of the time while we were there..
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#47 Orana Wildlife Park
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#48 If you have been to a NZ zoo, you should know the kiwis are usually kept in almost completely dark environment. It's so dark that when you walk into the kiwi room, you just can't see anything at all in the first 30 seconds or so. I've tried to take photo of kiwis many times before with other cameras but the results were horrible. So it was a good test to D700's high ISO performance and also low light Autofocus performance. Look at the photo and you'll know the camera didn't disappoint me at all!
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#49 Tiger Tiger
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#50 Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
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Part 2 of the photo album at Post #21
Part3 of the photo album at post #24

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I like that first shot. Multiple shots stitched together? Or cropped?
Looks cropped imo.
Keep 'em coming.
the widest lens i have is only the 24-70 so its not really that wide, so the photo #1 was stitched then cropped Big Grin

i got the following lenses in this trip:
Nikon 24-70 f/2.8
Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 VR
Nikon AF 85 1.4
Nikon AF-S 50 1.4
Zenitar 16mm Fisheye f/2.8

want to guess which lens was on my camera most of the time?
24-70?
85mm!!!!
50mm!! How'd you get the sky to be so dramatic? Polarizing filter? Amazing photo
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