First Photo taken in New Zealand

[Sunny]

http://www.thephotographer.in/galleries/data/500/471.jpg

First photo taken in NZ, thsi Captain Cook's Ship arriving in October 1769. This photo is worth 800,000 USD+. I am one of the few people who have been allowed to take a photos of the real restored print!That is what I wrote on my FB profile. I deliberately chose to write 1769 (which is actually the correct date for the first arrival of Captain Cook in NZ) but is much earlier than the year of the first recorded photo taken in 1826 by Niepce (http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/wfp/) .

You can see my Facebook post with this public link: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3487821&l=8ca1c92fdd&id=717116914

I guess if I had written somewhere in 1850s and linked it to another event and added a few reflections (as if clicked through glass) it would have been much more difficult for anyone to point out.

All in good fun though :)

This is the real photo:

http://www.thephotographer.in/galleries/data/500/original.jpg

The whole point of this is testing out the Silver eFex pro (http://www.niksoftware.com/silverefexpro/usa/entry.php) software: it passed with flying colors (or lack of them ;) )

[vaishak]

is that same photo in color ?

[Vicky]

LOL! You almost got me on this one!

I say 'almost' coz your copyright watermark was a dead giveaway! You wouldn't dare to place your copyright logo on someone else's masterpiece worth $800,000!!!

But, lovely original and even better processing. Good work mate:)

[Aryan]

You sure had us there, Sunny! :D

[Technocrat]

LOL Sunny you did get us there :p

Good one :)

[veereshai]

The whole point of this is testing out the Silver eFex pro (http://www.niksoftware.com/silverefexpro/usa/entry.php) software: it passed with flying colors (or lack of them ;) )

I love silver efex pro. Come to think of it, I love all of the tools provided by NIK: color efex, dfine, sharpener, silver efex and Viveza. Favorite being brilliance and warmth under color efex pro :).