Author Archives: Steve Taylor

About Steve Taylor

Steve started off working with his father in the building trade as a painter & decorator before starting an apprenticeship in Telecoms. Steve was a Senior Signalling Engineer who worked for British Telecom and MCI/WorldCom in London. He was presented with the WorldCom Star Performer award for his improvements to the working systems. He was and still is a seller of real estate, but is now really enjoying the excitement that photography can bring. With photography there are only a few rules and they are mostly to do with composition. As always in life the worse the conditions the more extraordinary can be the results. If the weather is wet, cold and foggy the pictures taken will have a more surreal feel with the fog hiding the distracting backgrounds, the rain softening the colours and the cold making you more determined to get that perfect picture for freezing your butt off. One of the other strings to his bow is being able to turn a photograph into a beautiful digital painting. Give Steve a call on 021 241 3244 if you would like to talk about photography or real estate and you may also see the world in a different more exciting light.

Love and Washing Lines

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Steve Taylor

Time moves on and now you have wedding anniversaries that are metallic. Continue reading →

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Mr Sandman, bring us a dream-scape

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Steve Taylor

The name Sand Dancer is due to the occasional flick of one leg when he creates curls and crescents in the sand. He can also pirouette as he creates a small circles. Continue reading →

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Having a Hobo Christmas

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Steve Taylor

“Look Daddy has bought himself a Christmas present and you kids are going to wrap it up for him to put under the tree.” Continue reading →

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The New Christchurch Artists

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Steve Taylor

This weekend I went along to the display of artwork created by CPIT students. The students, I believe are all at the level of Bachelor of Design, but in various fields. The artwork was very exciting and I was impressed … Continue reading →

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Twitter and the #Hashtags

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Steve Taylor

On Twitter there is an option for following a subject by clicking on or saving a search for a word which has a hash tag in front, e.g #word. They can be anything under the sun such as #Girls, #Funny, … Continue reading →

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Wide angle shots getting the right view

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Steve Taylor

So I moved away to the other side of the room and looked at the telephoto pictures again and suddenly they looked amazingly correct like you were viewing them life size, close to you and almost 3D Continue reading →

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Early Mornings or Late Nights

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Steve Taylor

When it comes to photography there are in my opinion two particular periods to get that wow shot; these are when the sun is close to or over the horizon. Continue reading →

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My Vision of New Christchurch’s Future

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Steve Taylor

This is not the only thing that would set the city apart. As you have coloured bands of buildings you would also have bands of flowers in the hues of the blocks. In the red zone would be red poppies, red geraniums, etc; in the orange zone marigolds, orange Californian poppies, etc. Continue reading →

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Ron Mueck at the Christchurch Art Gallery

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Steve Taylor

Ron Mueck – Big Baby. I have seen this before in my own children when they were babies; for some unknown reason they just clench everything and stretch out to their maximum. It is slightly frightening when it happens, but they do not seem to be in pain. Continue reading →

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A Journey Through Bottle Lake Forest – Part 2

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Steve Taylor

You can get great views of the Port Hills from Bottle Lake’s beach Continue reading →

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