Kenny Mayne’s Wider World of Sports pressed on last month into Queenstown, New Zealand, home of all things extreme. If you’re into white water rafting, bungee jumping, sky-diving, binge drinking or helicopter drop snowboarding, this place is for you. Set amongst mountains dubbed “The Remarkables”, Queenstown is stunning with snow-capped peaks in every direction. Crisp and pure, it felt very much like the Colorado Rockies, only with much less human interference. A perfect spot for Kenny to get in touch with his daring side (which hasn’t really been on display thus far). Stills from the shoot can be seen here on flickr.

Andrus and I were able to have some down time at night to shoot time lapses off our hotel balcony, some of which can be seen in the video above. There are so many components that go into shooting good time lapse video, particularly at night. Add a programmable moving dolly like the one we own from Kessler and things get even more complicated. Camera settings, intervalometer settings, weather, ability to leave the camera (or baby sit it for hours), temperature, reflected light from sources you don’t want to see, power/charged batteries, post process – twenty other considerations all contribute to making a good time lapse. We had another issue in that we were sent to New Zealand not to get beauty shots but to capture Kenny being silly, leaving us precious few moments to shoot pretty stuff.