Out and About

[Darren Bradnock]

Random shots taken while we're traveling around the country shooting on location.

I've been wanting to stop and photograph the pylons for years now, finally got the chance when we were shooting in the area.

 

[adrian jordin]

I love that last picture...looks like something out of Dr Seuss!

 

[Jim Kuo]

I love #1, the heavy fog hides the ski lifts in the distance makes the scene look surreal!

 

[Paul Lange]

No 1 is pretty nifty and the pylons look like an invading force that has just landed. I think the last 2 if both black and white might make a nice mini series, sort of like a to and from the path to Stump Man.

 

[Darren Bradnock]

Thanks

I did try the last one in b&w but it just seemed to work better for me in colour because of the orange in the eyes.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Loving the first and the last ones especially.

That stump man is just freaky!

 

[Laurie Parker]

I like the chair lifts one, love the misty conditions, also that last one you got to love these things made from wood

 

[Darren Bradley]

Are those the pylons along 395 north of Victorville? I've been meaning to shoot those for some time now, too. Great!

 

[Pete Askew]

I think my favourite here is the cable car shot. Super lead in from top right and disappearing into the mist. And I only just realised that the the railing shot is looking down towards the post/man. Nice set all-in-all and the mono treatment suits them well I think.

 

[Darren Bradnock]

The pylons are along the Desert Rd in the middle of the north island in New Zealand.

I am pretty happy with the chair lift photo, when i was driving up the mountain rd i was thinking it would be cool to get that kind of shot, but when i got to the top car park the cloud was higher. I took a few photo's then just before i went to leave the cloud came in around the bottom chair lift. It's taken at the Turoa ski field on Mt Ruapehu in NZ.

 

[Darren Bradnock]

Here are some more from behind the hotel i was staying at in Hamilton.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Now that is an awesome photo!!!
really, this is just the sort of thing that ticks my boxes!

 

[Pete Askew]

I agree. I torn between that one and the bridge. But they a great set anyway. Nicely converted.

 

[Brian Moore]

Are those the pylons along 395 north of Victorville?

They certainly could pass for a pylon landscape in USA, Darren, and it is very like the Southern California High Desert.

This is a really nice set of images. I like #1 particularly. I like #5 also. I find it very interesting that they've made that fencing out of what appears to be tree limbs.

 

[Darren Bradley]

It's interesting how scenery half way around the world can look so similar. Those shots of electricity pylons and landscapes are almost identical to what we have here in southern California, in the Mojave desert northeast of LA. Even the ski lifts would be apprpriate, because that's the route you take to get to the Sierra Nevada mountains and the ski resorts there.

 

[Brian Moore]

That last one of the kids in sil-oo-et is superb.

 

[Darren Bradnock]

Thanks guys. The last one of the kids was a bit of a bonus, i was taking photos of the bridge when these 2 kids start getting cheeky. I quickly turned around and snapped a pic, pretty happy with the result. Just had to clone out the corner of a building that was in the top left corner

 

[Darren Bradnock]

Some shots from Earnslaw Burn near Queenstown

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Now that is an awesome photo!!!
really, this is just the sort of thing that ticks my boxes!

Agree - what a moment to capture, such simplicity in the image yet so powerful

This is the sort of image that wins competitions!

 

[Chris Dodkin]

I'm loving the helicopter shot with that lovely sunburst - just a nice bit of prop blur as well - excellent!