Al R: sunny traffic
May 18, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | Uncategorized
Shooting into the sun at traffic lights…
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AL R: Misplaced Crysalis
May 15, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedYou know that thing that happens in life… when you buy your kids a fantastic new toy, and they end up playing with the box!?!? Well I feel a little bit like that with my Monarch Butterfly caterpillars. I went to the trouble of planting a Swan Plant… and then the little blighters stripped it [...]
+ Read more…Al R: Misplaced Crysalis
May 15, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedYou know that thing that happens in life… when you buy your kids a fantastic new toy, and they end up playing with the box!?!? Well I feel a little bit like that with my Monarch Butterfly caterpillars. I went to the trouble of planting a Swan Plant… and then the little blighters stripped it [...]
+ Read more…Al R: Misplaced Crysalis
May 15, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedYou know that thing that happens in life… when you buy your kids a fantastic new toy, and they end up playing with the box!?!? Well I feel a little bit like that with my Monarch Butterfly caterpillars. I went to the trouble of planting a Swan Plant… and then the little blighters stripped it [...]
+ Read more…Week 19 (ish): For the love of FLARE
May 14, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedI remember very clearly the only advice I ever got from my Mum about Photography: “Don’t point the camera at the Sun”… so I grew up with the fear that I was going to fry something on the insides of the camera if the sun ever got it’s hulking mass near my camera… Advance many [...]
+ Read more…WEEKLY THEME: Graffiti
April 23, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedLove it or hate it… Graffiti tends to be everywhere. Some form it into art, others use it like a dog uses wees to mark it’s territory… Seeing as lots of photos of dog wees wouldn’t really make a great assignment, we thought that this week we would send you all out to find creative [...]
+ Read more…Al R: shell be right mate
April 15, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedBeach + sand = much grey/brown
+ Read more…Al R: nightswimming… deserves a quiet night
March 30, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedNot sure why I chose that title other than the fact that it says night in it… Mark and I headed out late last night/early this morning to Highbrook. I had a new 10-20 lens to play with and he was using my 18-200 cos his is broked… Anywho… tooked this one in the process [...]
+ Read more…Al R: there are worse places to be
March 18, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedOn holiday with the whanau in Perth, so no laptop to upload my other pics… Water is scarce in WA… So whatever you find is usually filled with truckloads of people!!! I have to say… I love Perth a lot… Coldest day we have had in the last 8 days was 29!!! I am still [...]
+ Read more…Al R: Ground Control to Major Tom
March 8, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedI am a bit of a night photography junkie… so when there is something that gives me opportunity to get some truly “Long” shutter speeds, you don’t have to ask me twice… In this instance, I snapped something at home that I quite like – the Southern Cross… It speaks to me of home, well… [...]
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AL R: Rust and Decay = photographic heaven
February 28, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedSo I had a meeting today at a venue that had some amazing urban decay around it – most of this was the result of a massive fire… There was so much to photograph and it was actually weirdly stunning. The site has just been used to film a post-war Japan movie called The Emperor [...]
+ Read more…Week 9: Rust
February 26, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedSee the full gallery on Posterous Rust is everywhere. When you make things with metal, you get rust. I am currently on a ferry bound for Waiheke Island and there are truckloads of great spots of rust. This week is less of a challenge and more of a theme… Do have fun finding rust! I [...]
+ Read more…Week 8: Forced perspective
February 19, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedSo forced perspective sounds a little bit fancypants… but essentially it is pretty simple… you have to create an illusion that something is a lot smaller than it is… Now obviously, I am not ACTUALLY holding the sun here… it is just a case of changing the perspective of the photo and it has the [...]
+ Read more…Al R: Emily and lines
February 16, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedMy little girl has the patience of a saint…
+ Read more…AL R: Home Grown
February 5, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedThe year was 1999 and one of my best mates and I piled in to his fantastic Honda Prelude and embarked on a mammoth roadtrip around the South Island… We had really been looking forward to this trip as for both of us it was kind of a homecoming… I moved away from Central Otago [...]
+ Read more…Wellington – I think you’re special – so book a photoshoot!
February 3, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedHey there… I am going to be in Wellington 2-4th of March and I would love to make myself available to any families or couples that might want a photoshoot!? For $300+GST you get a DVD of photos and around 25-50 6″x4″ prints for your efforts. You are free to get the pics printed however [...]
+ Read more…Al R: Merely a Kat
February 1, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedAs you may have picked up from Mark’s last post, our two families descended upon Auckland Zoo on Monday for an action packed day with our kids. I was flying solo with our two terrors, so capturing truckloads of photos was only an option due to the bundle of awesomeness that is Mrs van Wijk! [...]
+ Read more…My little Art project = Al is freaking out!!!
February 1, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedI am a wee bit nervous… Cos I am about to enter this into an art competition… I have never done this kind of thing, so totally freaked!!! The picture is of the Waipuna Bridge over the Tamaki River Estuary… I have tried to make a bit of a statement about the invasion of artificial [...]
+ Read more…My sis-in-law got engagedified…
January 31, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedSo we took photos See the full gallery on Posterous Set up was 2 diffuser-dome laden Speedlights one at 1/4power and the other at 1/8th power… wirelessly triggered and everything on Manual… a Lot of fun!
+ Read more…Al R: it’s triangularishness
January 26, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedThis is a triangle.
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I will think twice about letting the kids in the paddling pool
January 17, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedYou leave your pool overnight and what happens?
+ Read more…Al 1.0: Larrivee
January 11, 2012 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | f8L DistractionIn this shot I have used a pretty wide Aperture of 1.8 to totally blur the foreground AND the background… This has given me a paper-thin depth of field, which has allowed me to make a shot that is pretty abstract, but still tells a story. There is enough information in the blur to fill [...]
+ Read more…Genesis: Form and Fill
In the beginning… was a pretty rough young youth worker who lived by the adage, “the only experience you should regret, is one you didn’t learn from”… fast forward a couple of decades and you have a youth worker who is pretty excited to have learned a heap of lessons, and I get to have [...]
+ Read more…a happy place
So last night I sat down at my secret spot… you know the one – the one that I would never divulge in a million years… THIS ONE… Well… anyways… I am thinking about entering an art competition and was scoping somewhere out… and this is what I was playing around with… (click the pic [...]
+ Read more…A trip to Wellington :)
They say you can’t beat Wellington on a good day – and boy did I get a doozy on Friday! Walking around the waterfront and seeing how much the people of Wellington have brought in to this public space was pretty awesome!!! If Wellington was like that every day, I think I would be there [...]
+ Read more…11:11 on 11/11/11
At the National Cenotaph in Wellington, a lone woman remembers those that sacrificed greatly in order that we might have freedom.
+ Read more…Portal Magazine
Our church has a magazine that we put out 3 times a year. This month my “Letter to Christchurch” is the feature article and I am truly humbled with the way it has turned out. The amazing Amanda Crane from Creative at the Cranes has done an amazing job of mixing my photos and text [...]
+ Read more…Unintentional Perfection
We all know it well… that moment when everything seems to conspire together to make something incredible happen… there are moments when you have a say in that… and moments like this photo, where it all just happened to work out right. You see… this is quite a technical shot and the product gives little [...]
+ Read more…Northland Roadtrip
SO I headed up north with the Whanau and came back with a few keepers… check out the slideshow! What do you think – make you want to head up there?
+ Read more…Friendly Fire
September 22, 2011 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | General Life StuffOne of my favourite war movies of all time is the amazing Meg Ryan and Denzel Washington film, Courage Under Fire. It tells the story of a courageous Helicopter Pilot who is killed in a dramatic scene during a battle in Desert Storm. The man who is tasked with investigating the crash (and whether or [...]
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You know who I respect the most? Single Parents!
Whether it is through tragedy, or through other reasons that I don’t know about or understand… Single Parents have to be the most amazing people on the planet. I have just had one of “those” nights with my girls… Christine is at work and I have been in charge of Dinner, Baths and Bedtimes… The [...]
+ Read more…Fireworks for the Rugby World Cup
September 9, 2011 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedSo we ended up flagging the idea of going in to town for the big party… sounds like a wise decision from what I see in the news and on Twitter… Consequently we found ourselves up Mt Wellington and got some long shots of the Fireworks… I would have LOVED to be in town taking [...]
+ Read more…Shooting the All Blacks…
Shooting the All Blacks is kind of a dream come true… and I’m not talking about after we have choked from another world cup… we are talking shooting them BEFORE a World Cup when all the hope of a Nation is still directed towards the Men in Black… not the English ones… the original ones [...]
+ Read more…What I REALLY want for Fathers Day.
I am kinda stuck in the middle really… Fathers Day is one of those bitter-sweet days in my year… A very evident reminder of a hole created in my life through the “joys” of Alzheimers Disease in a Dad that was far too young for that kind of ending… HOWEVER… it is also a celebration [...]
+ Read more…Karioitahi Beach
On Saturday I arranged a catch up with some friends at Karioitahi Beach just out on the Coast from Waiuku in South Auckland. It is a long beach with black sand, but lacks lots of drama that you will find on the West Auckland beaches… still – there was lots to check out and it [...]
+ Read more…Some days are just crap!
Some days are just crap. That has to be up there with the most negative blogpost titles you will ever read from me. I am an optimist in nearly every situation I come across. If you give me a glass that is half full, I marvel at the endless ways in which it could become [...]
+ Read more…Dear Otago Razorbacks
Dear Otago Razorbacks. I thought I might write a little something that I hope serves as a wee bit of timely encouragement… You see… This one time, back in the ummm… EARLY… 1980s… the smallest boy ever to don the playing-strip of the Cromwell Rugby Club scored his one and only career try against those [...]
+ Read more…Dear Christchurch:
I live in Auckland… I watch the news… Along with the rest of the Nation and the World, I watched the events of September and February unfold in Christchurch and my heart was devastatingly wrenched. Time has gone on and from afar the story appears to have become less about the tragic loss of life, [...]
+ Read more…Ronberg Creative Launches
November 4, 2010 | Posted By: Al Ronberg | UncategorizedWell… this is all very exciting!!! Ronberg Creative as a company OFFICIALLY launched on November 19th, 2010… and it has been a roller coaster of a start!!! Some highlights of Al’s first few weeks (in no particular order). The Humphrey’s Family photoshoot… They purchased a photoshoot that I had put on Trademe to raise money [...]
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