32nd cold kiwi rally

**Goblin** · 6th September 2006, 20:58

Originally Posted by krash69

4.my prez bike hehehe after friday nite

Thought it was potato planting.... :spudbooge :spudguita :spudwave:

So where's the rest?

**krash69** · 6th September 2006, 22:10

these are the views i got early saturday morning ...hehehehehe

**Goblin** · 6th September 2006, 22:16

AAARRRGGGHHH!!! MY EYES!!

**Wolf** · 6th September 2006, 22:26

Originally Posted by krash69

these are the views i got early saturday morning ...hehehehehe

I know it was a half moon that night and it seems you had another one the next morning...

**krash69** · 6th September 2006, 22:33

Originally Posted by Wolf

I know it was a half moon that night and it seems you had another one the next morning...

hehehehe.....i no it buggered my eyes for the morning coz i thought that view was horny hehehehehe

**Wolf** · 8th September 2006, 14:42

With great anticipation I took the disposable camera - containing the only photos I had been able to take of the Cold Kiwi - to the One Hour place and got it processed.

I turned up at lunch time, 2 hours later and the chick hands me the pouch of photos and says "$28-something" so I paid and then opened the pouch to see most of the first picture is Cyan. The other chick bustles up and asked where I had kept the camera because it was heat damage that had caused the discolouration but some of the pics were OK.

I later found a proof-sheet of all of the pics amongst them which meant they had known before they printed them that most of the pics were discoloured and hadn't even phoned to alert me to that fact and ask if I still wanted the photos printed - pricks!

It's not their fault the pics were damaged but they could have at least rung and asked before printing the damaged pics and charging me for them.
So anyway, the photos are all fucked - anything remotely bright (like the sky or a certain snow-capped mountain) in them, is over exposed and coloured cyan. You can scarcely make out the cyan mountain against the cyan sky in the best of them - the rest of the shots with the mountain in the background just show a nearly uniform cyan sky.

I scanned them and tried to adjust the colour but to no avail. The nearest I could do to salvage one shot was to completely crop out the sky and the no longer visible Mount Ruapehu, leaving only my tent and my bike.

I'm so pissed off. The only shots I've got of our journey down (Roj and Lias didn't take any of the trip) and of my bike on Ruapehu (like Sels1's shot of his Tiger) are completely fucking worthless.

On the positive side: the photo place got their money, that's all that really matters, right?

**Bonez** · 8th September 2006, 18:04

Originally Posted by Wolf

I'm so pissed off. The only shots I've got of our journey down (Roj and Lias didn't take any of the trip) and of my bike on Ruapehu (like Sels1's shot of his Tiger) are completely fucking worthless.

Justification for purchasing a cheap digicam possibly ah?

**Wolf** · 8th September 2006, 18:15

Originally Posted by Bonez

Justification for purchasing a cheap digicam possibly ah?

We have a digicam that I would have taken had the cubs not hidden the bloody thing (strayjuliet eventually found it later that weekend). The only thing we could find was that camera we'd purchased ages before and had only a few shots left on it.

Was so wild about the service I got that I had to wait til I calmed down then I phoned the photo place, spoke with the manager and said I felt it was poor customer service not to ring and ask before printing 22 damaged photos. He said he agreed and would refund at least part of my money - not that that helps with my pics but I feel less like I've been ripped off.

I'm especially ticked that the pic of the bike on Ruapehu's rocky slope is buggered - I had hoped to use that to replace the pic on my home page (a bit more scenic and appropriate to the XT than the one taken outside a local park.)

The weather was perfect, we had great scenery and I got some great shots in spectacular places, thanks to Sels1's guidance, and all I have is Sels1's group pic and a heavily cropped pic of my bike and tent that should have the scenic beauty of Mount Ruapehu in it.