Alex Robinson

Just some guy who doesn't shoot weddings

Tag: Lake Coleridge

New Fuji paper and PTLens

So no new photos this time, I’ll post some snaps from my west coast trip last weekend sooner or later. In the mean time I’ve had the opportunity to do some test prints on the new Fujifilm Pearl paper and I have to say I’m very impressed. This came about by chance as I was [...]

My photo on Selwyn Library’s new bookmarks

A few weeks ago I was asked if I’d like to put one of my photographs on a new bookmark being printed for the Selwyn Library service so of course I jumped at the chance for some publicity. Apparently about 10-15,000 of them have been printed and the plan is that they are going to [...]

Lake Coleridge is minter in winter

All shot on the Pentax with my 75mm and 135mm lenes. I’d love to be able to get some better scans than these V700 ones. Film was Provia 100, polarizer for some photos. What a nice day it was, though the road up to the lake was a bit dodgy in the MR2 but it [...]

Pentax 75mm lens back in business & some kitsch Kiwiana

Yay, I can finally mount filters on my 75mm Pentax lens! I picked it up yesterday afternoon from Fototech, sadly they didn’t have the correct replacement filter thread ring for it but he was able to panel beat it back into reasonable shape (the lens wasn’t exactly pretty in the first place). Still, I’m stoked [...]