Pit Pass

So, Nick and Laura in Singapore got a pit pass to the Singapore Grand Prix recently... Nick mentioned to Roger and I via email at work that he was going to be there, so we insisted that he take his 5DmkII etc and get some shots. Roger jokingly suggested that he get the hot pit chix to hold up a hello message to him! Which Nick and Laura did:

Photo Credit: Nick Shore

heh... nice... and who else do they love? ;-)

Alright Force India!!

First real post

Ok, finally... last night I built a rig to help capture a photo that I've been trying to get for about 2 weeks now involving a custom bokeh filter, macro tubes, fibre optics, the Earth and my wife Anna's eye. What is all this about you say? And when can I see the image? Not telling... yet. But here's a shot of what I made from masking tape, lego and blu-tack to assist in the process:

I promise to show the photo when it's in the clear... ;-)

Double great success!

WICKED. The blog is hooked up. Smugmug is hooked up. And... what do you know?! www.julianbutler.com was available and I just snapped it up!! I'm not sure I'm going to use it...
but... better to have and not need I guess.

Great success.

It's happened ;-) avfx.net.nz now goes to my smugMug site... now to hook up this blog to a sub domain at avfx... it should be simple and quick this time!

down the DNS rabbit hole I go.

Well.. I was a bit naive then. Changing the zones file info didn't adjust the ACTUAL nameservers involved to point at the right domain etc... but a bit of assitance from Kenneth and Adam here at Weta and well... things should start happening soon! Oh exciting...

now... to start figuring out how to change the appearance of this blog into something more acceptable..

Changes AfFOOT

so it's happening I just updated the CNAME and A records at my registrar to begin pointing things to the new locations.... I've upgraded to the pro account at smugmug and am trying the new features... most noticeably the watermarking... next up, tomorrow morning hopefully to point the blog at avfx.net.nz.

It's been about 10 years that avfx was going. It's old and boring now! Goodnight.

Getting started

Hokaay... so... gonna give this blogger thing a go as a way to have a partner site to my smugmug stuff and a way to keep family and friends up to date with our activities at home etc... got a few things to do to make it all work though:

1. cease hosting the old site at kiwiwebHost  -  keep avfx.net.nz
2. upgrade to a pro account with smugmug.
3. change the smugmug to point to avfx.net.nz.
4. change the blogger to point to blog.avfx.net.nz.
5. Profit!

So that should keep me busy for a little bit...