Another shot of Te Hoho ;-) This what shot early easter saturday in the morning. I just managed to get through the cove before the high tide locked me in on the beach with Te Hoho. This was great so I had the chance to get some shots without people in it. When the tide went lower, already more then 20 people were on the other side of the cove.
This is an exposure blend shot at ISO-80 F/6.3 1/25s as base and 1/160s for the sky, 1/6s for foreground bits which were really dark in the sunsrise.
Te Hoho is the giant breccia pumice pinnacle at the Cathedral Cove, close to Hahei in the Coromandel, New Zealand.
Te Hoho is Maori and stands for "The Energizer" or "The Buzz".
More Te Hoho by me
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Te Hoho from the front
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Closeup of my round on Daves eye
This is a crop of http://www.flickr.com/photos/denniskuhn/3262618650/
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Great Coromandel trip
Yes we've done it. My first 2 day trip through the Coromandel since November 2007. Unbelievable but true, I didn't do a 2 day trip in 2007.
Anyway, the trip started Friday with awesome hot weather. Drove from Paeroa to Thames, bought heaps of fluids, one of each drink of the great Charlies range and of course beer. Fully packed we head up the Thames coast straight to Coromandel town. Eaten some Oysters and drove on to Kennedy bay.
Yes, now we are past all tar seal, only gravel ;-) Missed Kennedy bay (it is so tiny), turned around and arrived at Kennedy bay. None of our friends there, never mind so we drove on to Stony bay. After cruising along for an hour or so, I remembered the road and started a race. Yeah ha that was just great, flying up and down the hill on these narrow roads, always expecting oncoming traffic and the potential escape into the gutter ;-) Best of it all, the passengers did not complain and even seemed to enjoy it ;-)
After that race we arrived safely at little bay and especially Chris was just blown away by the beauty. I think Chris couldn't think of any better, but after another 20 minutes drive we stopped at my favourite sleeping spot (Sleeping spot this is only a tiny capture of the beauty).
Slept all right (like stones ;-)
Got up, drove 1 minute to the Stony bay camp ground, had breakfast (coffee and pot ;-) Chris left to do the Coromandel walkway, me and Regan relaxed a little and then took some pictures of ourself (Dennis and Regan).
Me and Regan drove over to Port Jackson / Fletchers bay to pick up Chris. Our bad researched said 40km, LoL. That is the distance from Port Charles to Port Jackson, not from Stony bay to Kennedy bay. At Kennedy bay, we picked up Chris, who was just blown away and took about 1GB worth of pictures in 3.5 hours.
Just 5minutes before Coromandel town, we run out of petrol. Never mind, the first car gave me a lift to town, borrowed a petrol can and petrol and started hitch hiking again. Before I even left town, an old man gave me a lift. He actually came from Paeroa and even the same road we live in ;-) He was so kind and drove me out, even though he didn't need to leave town ;-)
Arrived at the Jeep, filled it up and drove on. 1 minute later we couldn't find the herbs, pulled over, and while we were looking for it, the old guy stopped behind us and laughed because he thought we run out of petrol again ;-)
From Coromandel town we drove to Kennedy bay to meet Aaron and Amber. Missed it again ;-) Drove back and went to the beach. No sign of them and not answering there phone either. Never mind, we thought we are late and they left to Coroglen already. Half way back to Coromandel town they call us and are still at Kennedy bay ;-)
Never mind we drove on to Coroglen. Just 5 minutes away from the pub I know this wicked spot for camping. So we drove their, set up the camp and hitched back to the pub. It took about 4 minutes for the first car to pass and it took us ;-) Awesome ride on the back of a Ute ;-)
The concert was just wicked, Concord dawn, bulletproof and more (stage). Yepp we rocked it and sweat like pigs ;-) After a lot of rum and coke the concert finished way to early and we started walking back. Regan had doubts that anyone would come along that lonely road to pick us up. Not even 5 minutes past and we had our lift ;-)
During the night it started raining, we woke up, packed up and drove home.
That was a nice trip ;-)
Anyway, the trip started Friday with awesome hot weather. Drove from Paeroa to Thames, bought heaps of fluids, one of each drink of the great Charlies range and of course beer. Fully packed we head up the Thames coast straight to Coromandel town. Eaten some Oysters and drove on to Kennedy bay.
Yes, now we are past all tar seal, only gravel ;-) Missed Kennedy bay (it is so tiny), turned around and arrived at Kennedy bay. None of our friends there, never mind so we drove on to Stony bay. After cruising along for an hour or so, I remembered the road and started a race. Yeah ha that was just great, flying up and down the hill on these narrow roads, always expecting oncoming traffic and the potential escape into the gutter ;-) Best of it all, the passengers did not complain and even seemed to enjoy it ;-)
After that race we arrived safely at little bay and especially Chris was just blown away by the beauty. I think Chris couldn't think of any better, but after another 20 minutes drive we stopped at my favourite sleeping spot (Sleeping spot this is only a tiny capture of the beauty).
Slept all right (like stones ;-)
Got up, drove 1 minute to the Stony bay camp ground, had breakfast (coffee and pot ;-) Chris left to do the Coromandel walkway, me and Regan relaxed a little and then took some pictures of ourself (Dennis and Regan).
Me and Regan drove over to Port Jackson / Fletchers bay to pick up Chris. Our bad researched said 40km, LoL. That is the distance from Port Charles to Port Jackson, not from Stony bay to Kennedy bay. At Kennedy bay, we picked up Chris, who was just blown away and took about 1GB worth of pictures in 3.5 hours.
Just 5minutes before Coromandel town, we run out of petrol. Never mind, the first car gave me a lift to town, borrowed a petrol can and petrol and started hitch hiking again. Before I even left town, an old man gave me a lift. He actually came from Paeroa and even the same road we live in ;-) He was so kind and drove me out, even though he didn't need to leave town ;-)
Arrived at the Jeep, filled it up and drove on. 1 minute later we couldn't find the herbs, pulled over, and while we were looking for it, the old guy stopped behind us and laughed because he thought we run out of petrol again ;-)
From Coromandel town we drove to Kennedy bay to meet Aaron and Amber. Missed it again ;-) Drove back and went to the beach. No sign of them and not answering there phone either. Never mind, we thought we are late and they left to Coroglen already. Half way back to Coromandel town they call us and are still at Kennedy bay ;-)
Never mind we drove on to Coroglen. Just 5 minutes away from the pub I know this wicked spot for camping. So we drove their, set up the camp and hitched back to the pub. It took about 4 minutes for the first car to pass and it took us ;-) Awesome ride on the back of a Ute ;-)
The concert was just wicked, Concord dawn, bulletproof and more (stage). Yepp we rocked it and sweat like pigs ;-) After a lot of rum and coke the concert finished way to early and we started walking back. Regan had doubts that anyone would come along that lonely road to pick us up. Not even 5 minutes past and we had our lift ;-)
During the night it started raining, we woke up, packed up and drove home.
That was a nice trip ;-)
Monday, January 12, 2009
Alternative nick Ⓓⓔⓝⓝⓘⓢ
You know the feeling, you want to choose a screen-name like "Dennis" and surprise, surprise it is used by someone else.
Why not try the circled letters? On your PC go to Start/All programs/Accessories/System Tools -> Character Map. Choose the font "MS Gothic", scroll the characters down until you see all the circled letters. Double click on them until you have your desired name. When finished click the "Copy" button and paste (Ctrl + V) it whereever you want it.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
BCC instead of CC (Would you write your friends' phone numbers on the walls of public places?)
This issues is bothering me for a long time now. People send emails with tens and hundreds of people in the CC or To. Why do they not use BCC? Do they publish there friends mobile numbers as well?
Here an email I wrote around Christmas 2007:
Hello there,
this morning I received a hoax email with the name, email address and sometimes even occupation of close to 300 people! In New Zealand, this breaches the "Privacy Act 1993" about 300 times !! In other countries, it breaches the equivalent privacy act/regulations!!
Please read, understand and send this email to people who breach the privacy act in the same manner.
Did you ever send mass emails and published the email address of others? If so, then ask yourself:
How would you feel, if all people, whose email address you published, write your mobile number on public walls all over the country?
I guess, you would be upset and call your lawyer. How come, you expect other people, not to sue you?
It is not necessary to break the privacy of people to send x-mas wishes or funny emails !
Do not use CC or TO for mass emails, use BCC instead, read on to learn how to do it right !
Respect others right to privacy by not giving out their email in mass emails
Before forwarding emails. ensure they are not a hoax. You can do this by:
Here an email I wrote around Christmas 2007:
Hello there,
this morning I received a hoax email with the name, email address and sometimes even occupation of close to 300 people! In New Zealand, this breaches the "Privacy Act 1993" about 300 times !! In other countries, it breaches the equivalent privacy act/regulations!!
Please read, understand and send this email to people who breach the privacy act in the same manner.
Did you ever send mass emails and published the email address of others? If so, then ask yourself:
How would you feel, if all people, whose email address you published, write your mobile number on public walls all over the country?
I guess, you would be upset and call your lawyer. How come, you expect other people, not to sue you?
It is not necessary to break the privacy of people to send x-mas wishes or funny emails !
Do not use CC or TO for mass emails, use BCC instead, read on to learn how to do it right !
Respect others right to privacy by not giving out their email in mass emails
Before forwarding emails. ensure they are not a hoax. You can do this by:
- Copying the subject into google and see the result
- Checking out websites like http://www.hoax-slayer.com
http://www.netstuff.com.au/support/use_bcc_please.htm:
Would you write your friends' phone numbers on the walls of public places?
If you answer no, then why would you spread their E-mail addresses to a bunch of strangers, many of whom will in turn forward the same addresses to even more strangers? Don't do it! Instead, use the BCC feature of your E-mail program.
Why do this?
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Using BCC protects your recipients' E-mail addresses from being spread to strangers.
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Using BCC helps prevent SPAM (Unsolicited Commercial E-mail)
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When using BCC, messages will be easier on your readers because they will be smaller, with fewer addresses on each message. They will even download faster.
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Using BCC shows your consideration of others by not publishing hundreds of your friends' addresses to strangers and potentially, SPAMMERS or maybe even stalkers.
Privacy Act 1993 (privacy.org.nz):
...
6 Information privacy principles
...
Principle 11 Limits on disclosure of personal information
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That the disclosure is authorised by the individual concerned
Spam for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner (from MinterEllisonRuddWatts Lawyers):
http://www.privacy.org.nz/filestore/docfiles/1490516.pdf
http://smartwomenstupidcomputers.com/How-to-fight-Spam!.html :
How On Earth Did They Get My Email Address???
How do all these spammers get my address when I didn’t give it to them?
Never send out a group mailing with all your friends’ emails listed in the CC: at the top.
Respect others right to privacy by not giving out their email in mass emails
If you find something worth passing on, something that good, email it to one person at a time using the BCC feature all email programs offer.First blog and my web identities
Good morning,
this is my first blog. I wish all of you a happy new year ;-)
For a start some links to stuff related to me on the net:
http://www.dennissystems.net My little IT service company in New Zealand
My personal website is down until I found a way and time to get rid of the spammers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/denniskuhn/ my pictures at flickr
http://www.myspace.com/denn1skuhn My Space profile (denn1skuhn)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=707149139 Facebook profile (Dennis Kuhn, New Zealand)
http://www.bebo.com/DenSys Bebo profile (DenSys)
Instant messenger accounts:
AIM: Dennis100577
GoogleTalk: DennisInNZ@gmail.com
ICQ: 25050761
M$N: D.ennis@gmx.net
MySpace IM: dennis@kuhn.geek.nz
Yahoo IM: Dennis100577
That is it for now,
have a great day,
Dennis
this is my first blog. I wish all of you a happy new year ;-)
For a start some links to stuff related to me on the net:
http://www.dennissystems.net My little IT service company in New Zealand
My personal website is down until I found a way and time to get rid of the spammers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/denniskuhn/ my pictures at flickr
http://www.myspace.com/denn1skuhn My Space profile (denn1skuhn)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=707149139 Facebook profile (Dennis Kuhn, New Zealand)
http://www.bebo.com/DenSys Bebo profile (DenSys)
Instant messenger accounts:
AIM: Dennis100577
GoogleTalk: DennisInNZ@gmail.com
ICQ: 25050761
M$N: D.ennis@gmx.net
MySpace IM: dennis@kuhn.geek.nz
Yahoo IM: Dennis100577
That is it for now,
have a great day,
Dennis
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