Written by Stu Davidson @ Stuck in Customs
Daily Photo – Queenstown Gardens New Zealand has great gardens in pretty much every city. I suppose this is part of the British influence because the USA has very few elaborate gardens like the ones here. Luckily, this one is only about 10 minutes from my home so it’s a great place to go for […]
Category: Queenstown
Ballooning From Above
Written by Stu Davidson @ Stuck in Customs
Daily Photo – Ballooning From Above After living here in Queenstown for 10 years, I finally decided to do a hot air balloon ride. There were two balloons, and that was a nice surprise, as some of my best photos were of the other balloon. The landscape shots were cool of course, but I really […]
Queenstown from the Remarkables
Written by Stu Davidson @ Stuck in Customs
Daily Photo – Queenstown from the Remarkables I don’t actually head up this road too much because I’m not much of a skier and snowboarder. If anything, I drive up it to go on little hike and take photos. It does give a pretty good overview of Queenstown, though. Queenstown is kind of right in […]
The Remarkables and Kelvin Heights
Written by Stu Davidson @ Stuck in Customs
Daily Photo – The Remarkables and Kelvin Heights Here’s a new photo from Queenstown of the Remarkables with Deer Park Heights in the foreground. This perspective actually makes DPH look pretty huge, but it’s quite small compared to the mountains in the background. If you’re a geology nerd like me, then you may identify this […]
The Wizard’s Hat
Written by Stu Davidson @ Stuck in Customs
Daily Photo – The Wizard’s Hat That’s not the official name of this cool rock structure in Skipper’s Canyon near Queenstown, but that’s what I call it. This road around the canyon has many little turnouts and stops where you can see cool formations. This one is right in the beginning, just as you are […]
Flying Across the Southern Alps
Written by Stu Davidson @ Stuck in Customs
This weekend, join me for a live panel discussion on this most esoteric of subjects! (Oh, and there are a whole bunch of other photography speakers/topics which you might enjoy too! 😀 ) Daily Photo – Flying Across the Southern Alps Are there any bad photos of this area? I don’t think so. If you […]
Queenstown Harbor in the Morning
Written by Stu Davidson @ Stuck in Customs
Passport Sunday Fun Today for Passport Members there will be new tutorial on how I did today’s image! Enjoy! Editing the Harbor Video This one shows the amazing ability of Aurora HDR to Auto Align images as well as getting rid of some of the gnarly ghosting from this handheld bracketing series. Exclusive content for […]
More Autumn Action in Queenstown
Written by Stu Davidson @ Stuck in Customs
NFT Auctions Closing Soon For those of you interested in the fun world of NFTs, the latest drop closes in a few hours on Makersplace. Check it out here. Daily Photo – More Autumn Action in Queenstown There’s a huge area here between Queenstown and Arrowtown with rolling hills, lakes, little streams, and tons of […]
Outside the Sauna
Written by Stu Davidson @ Stuck in Customs
Passport Sunday How To! For Passport Members today you’ll see the How To of today’s photo. It was a fun one to edit from my 50th birthday partay! Sauna Suit In today’s video, you’ll see how I combined three images and then removed the ghosting. In a final step, I do some things to make […]
The Remarkables in the Fall
Written by Stu Davidson @ Stuck in Customs
Daily Photo – The Remarkables in the Fall I took this on a little walk I do a few times a week from my home. It’s really hilly around here and every hilltop has a new view of The Remarkables. This one is a favorite angle that peeks out over all the Autumn trees. This […]
New NFT Drops!
Written by Stu Davidson @ Stuck in Customs
New NFT Drops (Machine Elf too!) and a new video on what the fuck NFTs are and how they work Sending you a message from my digital nomad bunker here in New Zealand. 🙂 Anyway, not to bury the lead, which I’ll get to in detail later, but here is the new Burning Man NFT […]
After the Photo Shoot
Written by Stu Davidson @ Stuck in Customs
Passport Sunday Fun If you’re a Passport Sunday Member then you’ll see some selects from the recent photo shoot and how I processed them. Enjoy Editing the Shoot Photos You’ll see that I had incredibly challenging lighting conditions for this shoot… but I did the best with what I had. I was maybe being a […]
The Remarkables Out of the Mist
Written by Stu Davidson @ Stuck in Customs
Daily Photo – The Remarkables Out of the Mist The best place to take this photo is from the top of Coronet Peak. It’s also a good place to find magic mushrooms. There are rumors that cops are around and they will arrest you for picking the mushrooms… so silly. Luckily there are more and […]
A View From the Top
Written by Stu Davidson @ Stuck in Customs
Daily Photo – A View From the Top A few days ago, we hiked up to the top of the Remarkables to see Lake Alta, but that was in autumn where there is no snow. Here’s one I got in the wintertime when the ski field was active… and no, I did not hike up […]
Monni and the Lake
Written by Stu Davidson @ Stuck in Customs
Daily Photo – Monni and the Lake The mountains down here around Queenstown are so high and so much moisture comes in that they are often covered with clouds that hug in close for a lot of the day. I’ve been meaning to set up a time-lapse to watch their movements… It’s also quite cool […]
Passport Sunday Model Shoot!
Written by Stu Davidson @ Stuck in Customs
I did a shoot for the lookbook for Monni and her new Monni.co line of clothes. I don’t know much about fashion photography, and I was probably the worst decision for this job. But, hey, I was a free resource! Anyway, I recorded some fun behind-the-scenes stuff and am sharing them for Passport Sunday Members! […]
Over the Remarkables
Written by Stu Davidson @ Stuck in Customs
Daily Photo – Over the Remarkables I need to get my drone up more to take photos! This is a view from where i fly sometimes… the area is more restricted now but there are still several places for you to fly. With the zoom function on the Mavic, I can still kinda get the […]