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I’m Daniel Murray. I live in the South Island of New Zealand, that little country full of big beauty located at the southern end of the world. There’s nothing I enjoy more than exploring and capturing images of this amazing corner of the planet. On this here webby thing you can explore my image galleries, buy prints, join me on photography tours & workshops, and read up on my photography tips and adventures.
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A Brief Guide to RAW Photography
In the microseconds after pressing your shutter button all those bits and bytes start flowing from your camera sensor and down a pipeline towards your memory card. But soon there’s a junction. To the left there’s a sign saying “JPEG”. The pipeline quickly narrows and the data races onto [...]
@purephotoadventures.nz – 2020 tours!
Our 2020 tours are now available for booking! After another successful year running photography tours/workshops at our favourite spots around the South Island, we're very excited to be launching two new itineraries for 2020. First up in April 2020 is the most comprehensive trip on [...]
A Brief Guide to Water Reflection Photography
What is it about a water reflection that's so satisfying to the eye and soul? Maybe it's the magnificence of perfect symmetry, something which is otherwise rare to find in nature. Is it the peace and calmness that such scenes evoke? Or is it simply that a mirror affords us [...]
2018 in review
At the end of 2017, when reflecting on the incredibly busy 14 months I'd just spent on the Kaikōura earthquake recovery (read my 2017 review here), I had high hopes that 2018 would be the year where I’d find a lot more time to focus on my photography and photography [...]
A Brief Guide to The Coromandel
Quite why it took me so long to visit one of the most crazily beautiful locations New Zealand has to offer I'll never know. The Coromandel, a region centred on a peninsula located around 60 km from Auckland (as the tui flies), is a vast area of dramatic headlands, [...]
@purephotoadventures.nz – 2019 tours!
It's been a little over 9 months ago since we ran our first @purephotoadventures.nz tour. In a short time we've had the privilege of taking 40 enthusiastic photographers, from New Zealand and abroad, on four epic photography adventures around the [...]
