Well... I only made it there on Thursday after work and got some shots from the 6th open heats or therabouts - but WOW! What a show and what awesome light I had to work with. Some of my best shots so far.

Check them out at:
www.nzsnaps.com/gallery/7279560_PJyc7#467968492_X4d44

Digital copies available from $7.50 for 1mp versions by using Paypal... If you purchase through Paypal, the pricing is in $NZD - if you order prints, it's in $USD - sorry about that - my photo host is great but inflexible on the print sales currency.

I'll be out there again tomorrow if the weather co-operates!



Sorry about the watermarks really, but I really hope to make a little back on the outlay for all this gear :-/

Cheers - Neil G
www.nzsnaps.com

2 words. -In- -Awe-. Some amazing tricks executed with awesome precision..and stomped.

Good fun to watch.

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Great job guys on the pictures!!!

I hope the riders actually appreciate as it is a lot of work and a lot of time freezing your ass off the smelly shore of the estuary!

Delphine

Always a pleasure

Great day today, even with next to no board riding.

Fickle wind conditions threatening to peak 15kts only to back right down again. DK unrolled and did a few passes 3 times only to come back 5mins later

Lots of trainer kites, some buggying (it felt strange to be back in the seat, ta John!), some paddle boards. A few brews and a hell of a lot of friendly chatter/hanging out.

Only 2 Frames fired today. We start em young down here. Aarons little lad busting out the handle passes...

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The winners of the open, womens and juniors!







And our beautiful spot!


More coming tomorrow!
Delphine

Here are my shots from Saturday... The light was no-where near as nice as Thursday evening, but the action was as good, if not better. I took just over 1000 shots with 126 making the cut this time...

Check out the whole gallery at:
www.nzsnaps.com/gallery/7293346_iJgdi#468939929_BYjZY

Here are some samples...











Cheers - Neil G
www.nzsnaps.com

Who's this?



Cheers - N

I'm out for the day again, so need to process/upload later on. But couldn't go without posting this one.

Sue from NelsonKiteboard was standing watching the action, when I was able to get some big smiles out of this wee cutie...

Some people have commented the code pasted for some of these doesn't appear in their browsers correctly.
I'll collate and re-paste the URLs for clarification after too.

Neil, Linda, Craig and the other Neil are doing great jobs at action shots... so I thought I'd stick to basic lifestyle pics!

www.kiteboarding-attitude.com/nznationals/

Cheers
Delphine

Oops. Only 24 or so hrs late

As stated in other thread, big ups for the whole event. Pleasure to watch/shoot/hang around like a bad smell.

Maybe one day someone will convince me to get out there in it

uuuhhhh..

Thursday Nights Full Set

Saturday Full Set

When I figure out how, theres a few burst-mode tricks from kiters I'll layer into single images to show the whole motion.

Craig.

Well Ill be damned. It is rather easy.

Better late than never.. A few more pics.

http://www.virtualimage.co.nz/demo/nzkn09/day1/day1/index.html

http://www.virtualimage.co.nz/demo/nzkn09/day1/day3/index.html

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hey is there any way i can get these photos in high res?

Uuuh yeap.

I did most of those from small converted files. So will have to re-do it all again at full size. So don't expect them too quick

thats chucky from auckland

that would be sick! cheers mate!

I don't even know if all of these are you.

But after 3 nights of burning the midnight oil (quite literally, this has taken hrs) These should do...

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Personal fav..


Now onto the Kitesport challenge pics for Tim.

wo sick picks!! thank you so much mate!!!

"TalkieT" wrote:
i think its chucky .....