A little break in the blog posts as we've been working on some wedding and other event photos for the pats few weeks... got to do the paying jobs first :-)
Officially, our group trip didn't officially start until after lunch when the rest of the group was scheduled to arrive so there was a little time to explore downtown Queenstown... the weather was not great so I dropped off the hire car and then walked around the local park and foreshore... overall Queenstown has a pretty nice vibe being a city which thrives on tourism... lots of cafes / bars to hang out and very close to the Ski Fields... in New Zealand, there is very little opportunity to stay in the ski areas so towns like Queenstown become the party hub :-)
After lunch, the weather hadn't really improved but as we were a bunch of photographers, we still packed up the vans and headed out to our first location in the Remarkables... the trip was organised by Christian Fletcher (http://www.christianfletcher.com.au/) from Western Australia and co-leaders were Steve Gosling (https://www.stevegoslingphotography.co.uk/) and Joe Cornish (http://www.joecornishgallery.co.uk/) for the UK, so we had a great opportunity to learn / discuss different philosophies... the group was quite a mix, mainly from different parts of Australia, a few from Hong Kong and one Kiwi...
This is where the title of this post comes into play... the weather was very "changable" with sunlight and rain showers moving through the whole time... this can make for very interesting photos so in cases, you've just got to set up a shot and then wait for the conditions to change... we spent some time at our first location enjoying the views of the mountains as the clouds moved across...
Phase One IQ250, 210mm, 1/125s, f11
After some time, we decided to try a different location... unfortunately, as we drove further up the mountain, the weather got worse and soon we were driving into horizontal snow showers... so we decided to head back down in search of calmer conditions... we ended up an area called Jacks Point which offered some options... we managed to get few shots before being chased away by the storms again... I actually got one of my favourite images of the trip during this time so it pay to always be prepared for the weather, no matter what comes
Phase one IQ250, 80mm, ISO400, 1/200sec, f8