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Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. / / Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. Japanese Proverb
I was not going to leave the zoo without this image. The beautiful bird, I first saw the outlines of through the man planted flora, gracefully glided across the artificial pond. Its motion cut a gentle trail in the small, evening breeze caused ripples. I set an ambush at the narrow part of the pond and waited patiently. No good. The introverted animal was too edgy when passing by, and emerged in and out of the dark shadows at unpredictable intervals. This was going to be a long haul. Luckily, with the ambient light we both needed running out quickly, my desire to capture the elegant curves of this creature and its routine craving to nibble a bit before the day expired reached an uneasy, but welcomed equilibrium. I held my breath and pushed the button with my cold stiffened finger. Timeless beauty. This is not a great story, just a blurb, with a moral that outweighs its size. The ever relevant message to those who take away your freedom is to realize they will never be able to deprive you of your Dignity, your Grace.
Oskar was right, Civic Square comes into its own sometime around midnight.
The clouds … the only birds that never sleep. Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885)
The writing is on the wall – if you can see it, you can’t read it. I passed this sculpture so many times. You have to. It is made of stainless steel and placed in one of the busiest Wellington streets, in the perfect position to capture the colorful lights of the city after daylight, the nightglow of the capital. The ‘Invisible City’, as it’s called, is the gigantic panel of Braille text that highlights the communication gap between those who can’t see and the rest of us. The post is designed to remember all the folks, my countrymen and yours, the often invisible part of society, all those who finish schools, who work, play music, do sports, pay taxes, have and raise children, to the benefit of us all.
Watching over Wellington Harbour at Point Hallswell. Shot on a Nikon D700 with Tamron 17-35 lens. Other work in this series / 5am and Hallswell / Hallswell Light / Moss on ya / Guardian Angel
Paua Shell found on the rocks at Tarakeana Bay, Wellington, New Zealand. Shot on a Nikon D700, Tamron 17-35 lens
In all the excitement, I can’t remember if that was the 6th wave or the seventh, what you have to ask your self is do you feel lucky, well, do ya PUNK! Shot just past Pencarrow Heads on Wellingtons rough south coast, I found this hugh concrete platform, it’s so big it shows up on google earth. Shot on my Nikon D700, 17-35 Tamrom lens. Other images in this series / Time drifts by / Light Wave / Launch Pad / Jurrasic Rocks
Shot just past Pencarrow Heads on Wellingtons rough south coast. / Shot on my Nikon D700, 17-35 Tamrom lens. Other images in this series / Time drifts by / Make my day PUNK! / Launch Pad / Jurrasic Rocks
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. Mark Twain (1835 –1910)
Couldn’t believe my luck, took a detour on the way to work via Petone Esplanade and low and behold! is this the mystery machine? Scooby, Scooby Doo Where are you?, this is as Kiwi iconic as it gets, 9.30 in the morning on a busy road by the sea and all the occupants are asleep! kiwi spirit, travel light, can do, next stop South Island? Look at the distortion from the wide angle lens on the rear wheel, that combi is raring to go bro! Shot on a Nikon D700, 17-35mm Nikkor Lens
In the failure to find a meaning, we traded wisdom for success.
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. Swedish Proverb
Today we had a beautiful thick fog which rolled in mid-morning, settling at a low level. This is early on, heading downhill into the city. I’ll be posting a few more fog pictures over the next couple of days.
Shot at Point Hallswell Light on Wellington Harbour, nearly passed this one up till i saw the pink thrown by sunrise, sunrise should be in the middle of the picture just above the lowest white cloud. This is why New Zealand called Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud) there it is, laying low across the tops of the hills and down towards the Hutt Valley. What would have made this shot perfect for me would have been a splash in the foreground, I’ll just have to settle for a great sky :-) Shot on a Nikon D700 with 17-35mm Nikkor Lens, ND 8 soft Grad, tripod. Raw files with Active D-Lighting on High. / The Light Catcher
Shot at Island Bay on Wellingtons’ south coast, 6.43am, this is about 220º, the houses on the left are on the same road as the lighthouse on the right, this is a seven frame merge in photoshop. each shot took 15 seconds and about 15 seconds to process, ISO 100, active D-lighting on High, the working file is 967×271mm. Im sorry that you can’t blow this up big enough to see its true glory, this was magical, took me several pans to get this, the lights to the right on the horizon is the dawn ferry leaving through the heads and out into cook straight towards the South Island. This is stunning, and it was a magical daw, the sun is coming up between the light spot and the pinck spot, the light spot is shining straight dawn the Hutt Valley were I live and over on the right glowing pink and peach along the Wainuiomata coast. Shot on a nikon D700, 17-35mm nikkor Lens, ND8 soft grad Cokin filter, tripod. I now realise that I need to get a dedicated “Pan Head” for my tripod to level the horizon to make the merge better. All that said, I very pleased with this result. / Details /
Port Nicholson, Wellington NZ
Taken mid September, an opportunist shot on the way home, I noticed the sky colour in the rear view mirror, turned of at Petone and raced don the wharf, just got a couple of shots of before it died. View towards Wellington, very cold air seems to bring out a rich colour spectrum but only lasts for seconds. / taken on a nikon D700 with 17-35mm Nikkor lens, 100 ISO, active D-Lighting on, processed in photomatrix and photoshop.
Taken on a dark night in Wellington. This was taken on a night where I to was feeling very dark. My Partner of 10 years was about to go away for 8 week in circumstances I wasn’t very happy about and was dreading. I think the photo really shows how I was feeling.
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