Night portal at Kurow, North Otago. 10.41 pm, 30 April 2012
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. - Lewis Carroll
28mm; ISO 2000. 10 seconds at f2.8. Incandescent light balance
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220. Night portal at Kurow
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Tagged caravan, high ISO, long exposure, moonlight, movement, Nikon D700, stars, trees, tungsten, wide angle
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219. Cheviot after dark
Cheviot after dark, North Canterbury. 8.05 pm, 2 May 2012
Change is the very essence of life. - Anatole France
28mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f11. Light balance 2500 deg K
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Tagged autumn, canterbury, high ISO, long exposure, moonlight, movement, Nikon D700, street lighting;, trees, tungsten, wide angle
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218. Wintry evening, Kurow
Wintry evening, Kurow. 11.15pm, 30 April 2012
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. - Emily Dickinson
28mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f4
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Tagged autumn, caravan, clouds, high ISO, long exposure, moonlight, movement, Nikon D700, Otago, stars, telephoto, torchlight, trees
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217. Just keep going
Just keep going, Fox Glacier. 10.37pm, 24 April 2012
Just keep going. No feeling is final. - Rainer Maria Rilke
28mm, ISO 2000. 30 secs at f4. Light balance 3030 deg K
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Tagged high ISO, long exposure, Nikon D700, signs, stars, street lighting;, tungsten, West Coast, wide angle
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216. Seeking love at Kurow
Seeking love at Kurow. 10.26 pm, 30 April 2012
Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already are it. - Byron Katie
28mm; ISO 2000. 30 secs at f5.6. Mercury vapour light balance.
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Tagged autumn, clouds, long exposure, moonlight, moonlight photography, Nikon D700, Otago, people, stars, street lighting;, wide angle
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215. Sinking moon, Arrowtown
Sinking moon, Arrowtown, Central Otago. 7.04 pm, 28 April 2012
If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good. - Dr Suess
28mm, ISO 2000. 15 secs at f8. Col balance 2500 deg K.
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Tagged autumn, central otago, high ISO, moon, moonlight photography, mountain, Nikon D700, stars, street lighting;, trees, tungsten, wide angle
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214. Maitai moon, Nelson
Maitai moon, Nelson. 9.15pm, 7 April 2012
Yet my moon always hung faithfully in the sky: constant companion, luminous and remote, gentle symbol of mystery, femininity and noctural wisdom. - Michael Leunig
85mm, ISO 2000. 10 secs at f8
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213. Suva Capetown by the stars
Suva Capetown by the stars, Kaiteriteri, Nelson, 8.09 pm, 4 April 2012
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. – Ursula K. Le Guin
85mm, ISO 2000. 30 secs at f7.1. Flash
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Tagged clouds, flash, high ISO, long exposure, moonlight, moonlight photography, movement, Nelson, Nikon D700, stars, telephoto
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212. Let it go, let it out
Let it go, let it out. 10.27 pm, 3 April 2012
Let it go, let it out / let it all unravel; Let it free and it can be/ a path on which to travel. – Leunig
28mm; ISO 2000. 30 secs at f8. Incandescent light balance
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211. Ebbtide evening, Marahau
Ebbtide evening, Marahau. 10.16 pm, 2 April 2012
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground but a kind word is never thrown away. - Arthur Helps
28mm; ISO 2000. 6.6 secs at f10. Incandescent light balance; flash
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Tagged coast, flash, high ISO, moonlight, Nelson, Nikon D700, stars, Tasman Bay, tungsten, water, wide angle
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210. Mixed moonlight at Kaka Pa Point
Mixed moonlight at Kaka Pa Point, Kaiteriteri. 9.41 pm, 4 April 2012
The problem with the youth of today is that one is no longer part of it. – Salvadore Dali
50mm, ISO 2000. 30 secs at f11. Flash
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Tagged coast, high ISO, long exposure, moonlight, Nelson, Nikon D700, reflections, Tasman Bay, telephoto, trees, water
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209. After dark at Marahau, Abel Tasman coast
After dark at Marahau, Abel Tasman coast. 9.48 pm, 3 April 2012
The future is just going to be a vast, conforming ‘suburb of the soul’. - J.G. Ballard, 1982
28mm, ISO 2000. 30 secs at f9. Light balance 5000 deg K
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Tagged coast, high ISO, long exposure, moonlight, moonlight photography, Nelson, Nikon D700, reflections, stars, water, wide angle
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208. On the way to Breaker Bay
On the way to Breaker Bay, Kaiteriteri. 8.37 pm, 4 April 2012
Live courageously, and produce. - Vincent van Gogh
28mm, ISO 2000. 3 secs at f8. Sodium vapour light balance
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Tagged clouds, coast, high ISO, long exposure, moonlight, moonlight photography, Nelson, Nikon D700, reflections, street lighting;, Tasman Bay, trees, tungsten, water, wide angle
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207. The truth more plausible, from Kaiteriteri
The truth more plausible, from Kaiteriteri. 9.06 pm, 4 April 2012
To make the truth more plausible, it is absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. - Dostoevsky
Staying three nights this week at Marahau, gateway to Abel Tasman National Park (Nelson), we had lovely evenings “to behold the waxing moon”. At Kaka Pa Point we discovered an easy path down to a sandy cove, Breaker Bay, above which a street light shines.
My attempt to reduce the overwhelming orange of the lamp was not successful, but produced this unusual image, featuring distant Adele Island (Motuarero-nui). Efforts to incorporate more colour in my night photography was aided by the golden sand here, plus the intensified blues from the light balance.
85mm, ISO 1250. 30 seconds at f16. Sodium vapour light balance
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Tagged coast, high ISO, long exposure, moonlight, moonlight photography, movement, Nelson, Nikon D700, street lighting;, surf, Tasman Bay, telephoto, tungsten, water
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206. Taranaki evening, young moon
Taranaki evening, young moon. 6.17 pm, 3 August 2011
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it. - Ursula K. Le Guin
28mm, ISO 2000. 1 sec at f11. Flash
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Tagged flash, high ISO, New Plymouth, Nikon D700, Taranaki, trees, twilight, wide angle
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205. Full moon at Back Beach: Night for day
Full moon at Back Beach: Night for day. 11.26 pm, 20 March 2011
The world to me is a dream and the people in it are sleepers. I have known a few instances of intensity but that is all. – Katherine Mansfield
28mm, ISO 2000. 6 secs at f2.8
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Tagged clouds, coast, high ISO, long exposure, moonlight, moonlight photography, New Plymouth, Nikon D700, Taranaki, water, wide angle
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204. Moonlit peace of mind, Waimarama
Moonlit peace of mind, Waimarama. 9.01 pm, 23 September 2010
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. - Helen Keller
85mm, ISO 2000. 30 secs at f16
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Tagged clouds, coast, Hawkes Bay, high ISO, long exposure, moonlight, moonlight photography, movement, Nikon D700, reflections, surf, telephoto, water
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203. Faux twilight at Paturau
Faux twilight at Paturau. 9.27 pm, 10 December 2011
All living creatures are making a great endeavour, struggling, to attain real everlasting happiness. - Srila Narayana Maharaja
Happiness through illusion? This actually is twilight, but stirred with the flash for foreground and then thoroughly shaken in post-pro. The original sky is very blue because I was trying a tungsten light balance. However I wanted something more upbeat and striking, since achieved by applying desaturation, dodging and hue manipulation to the RAW image .
At least the sheep are genuine; the hill profile is beyond the ridgeline by some distance. I like this as a simple but interesting composition, suitable for all ages.
85mm, ISO 2000. 1/2 sec at f5. Flash
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Tagged animals, clouds, flash, Golden Bay, high ISO, Nelson, Nikon D700, sheep, telephoto, twilight
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202. Approaching port, Wellington evening
Approaching port, Wellington evening. 10.10pm, 6 March 2012
What you do comes from what you think. - A Course in Miracles
85mm, ISO 2000. 13 secs at f11. Incandescent light balance
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Tagged high ISO, light trails, long exposure, moonlight, movement, Nikon D700, reflections, street lighting;, telephoto, tungsten, water, wellington
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201. Leaving the South Island on dusk
Leaving the South Island on dusk. 7.54 pm, 6 March 2012
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and the goal of a good intention was never reached through its opposite, laziness. - Cervantes, 1615
85mm, ISO 2000. 1/500th sec at f5.6
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200. The bluffs at moonset, Gilbert’s Beach
The bluffs at moonset, Gilbert's Beach. 10.55 pm, 12 March 2011
If only I could stand on a street corner with my hat in my hand, and get people to throw their wasted time into it! - Bernard Berenson, U.S. art critic
Taken last year at Te Hapu, Golden Bay and recalled by our more recent stay. Moonset before midnight always means a crescent moon, a simple fact of celestial mechanics. Without a prolonged exposure I had not thought it possible to get such a landscape by a slender moon, especially one so low on the horizon.
I like the warmth of light, fence shadow (right hand corner) and the veil of stars, more prominent than they would be under a full moon.
28mm, ISO 3200. 30 secs at f2.8. Torchlight
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Tagged Golden Bay, high ISO, long exposure, moonlight, moonlight photography, moonset, Nelson, Nikon D700, stars, telephoto, torchlight, trees
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199. Arriving at Wellington, evening ferry
Arriving at Wellington, evening ferry. 10.08 pm, 6 March 2012.
Life is a badly edited film. - Fernando Trueba
This was taken without using a tripod or cable release - just holding the camera open on B, on a guard rail on the Cook Strait ferry, has done the trick. The cloud is lit by moonlight, the lower part of the image must be the motorway the boat is running parallel to. We are close to docking. The undulations of the vessel, hardly perceptible onboard, show up in the apparent movement of the city lights. Steep hills are suggested by the absence of lights in some areas.
85mm, ISO 2000. 10 secs at f11. Incandescent light balance.
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Tagged boats, coast, harbours, high ISO, light trails, long exposure, moonlight, movement, Nikon D700, street lighting;, telephoto, tripod, tungsten, wellington
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198. Moonrise with alpacas
Moonrise with alpacas. 9.20 pm, 8 February 2012
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. - Martha Washington, American First Lady.
85mm, ISO 320. 5 secs @ f5.6. Col balance 8330 deg K
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Tagged animals, flash, Golden Bay, low ISO, moonrise, Nelson, Nikon D700, telephoto, twilight
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197. The right moment, Te Hapu
The right moment, Te Hapu. 1.10 am, 9 February 2012
Blend a little foolishness with your wisdom: it’s nice to be silly at the right moment. - Horace
28mm, ISO 2000. 30 secs at f8. Flash
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Tagged clouds, flash, Golden Bay, high ISO, humour, long exposure, moonlight, moonlight photography, movement, Nelson, Nikon D700, summer, trees, wide angle
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196. The best relationship, at night
The best relationship, at night. 10.17pm, 8 February 2012
Health is the greatest gift; Contentment the greatest wealth; Faithfulness the best relationship. - Buddha
28mm, ISO 2000. 123 secs at f22. Flash
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Tagged clouds, flash, Golden Bay, high ISO, long exposure, moonlight, moonlight photography, movement, Nelson, Nikon D700, stars, summer, trees, wide angle
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