The Auckland City Council, here in NZ, has gone the extra mile (or, since we are metric: 1.6093km!) to put up a rather flash Christmas tree in the main downtown square - Britomart Place (aka ‘Komititanga’ – Junction): a nod to the fact that the squa...
The local Museum of Transport and Technology was having a steam open day, and I decided to check it out. To get to it I had to go through a beautiful park area that I had not traversed for years, and I came across a forgotten gem, a Japanese/NZ gard...
When we look at most artworks that have survived from ancient Greece, Rome or Egypt (to name a few) we are faced with just the surface decorations that have not succumbed to the ravages of time. However, there has always been evidence that statues an...
New Zealand is home to two species of type of bird known as rails: the Pukeko and Takahē . They may look very similar, and it would be tempting to think that are closely related, but that is not the case.
Pukeko are not indigenous to New Zealand, but...
The Nestor genus of parrots includes two extant species from New Zealand and two extinct species from Norfolk Island, Australia and Chatham Island, New Zealand.KEA: King of the MountainThe Kea is the world's only mountain parrot, living in the NZ Alp...
Thank you all for your best wishes. Being down under, it's the shortest day of the year as I write, so a lot of folks don't put out seasonal lighting displays as they would in the Northern Hemisphere. However, there are a couple of exceptions, an...
Hi and welcome to the forum:
Sadly, to echo my respected colleagues comments, for what you say you want to do, a budget of $250 is not going to suffice. Not only do you have the challenge of wanting to get shots from a distance, which inevitably me...
Hi Curt and welcome to the forum:As a wildlife photographer, I can only echo the advice of my colleagues that either the Sigma 150-600c or the Tamron 150-600 (G1 or G2). For the focal range available, they are not heavy, but one does have to have th...
Hi and welcome to the forum - nice to connect with another Canadian!!!
I totally agree with my colleague Bill (@Widdizzle). If you are not absolutely sure of your ground in getting a camera, then you create a major risk of not getting her w...
Hi and welcome:I had the EF 70-200L f/2.8 IS USM MkII and the 70-200L f/4 IS USM MkII. They are both fabulous optics. I sold the f/2.8 variant because I didn't like the weight and really didn't need the difference in f/stop. I have used it withou...